Nigerian President Says AU Willing to Send 3,000 Troops to Darfur
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Nigeria&#39;s President Olusegun Obasanjo says the African Union is ready to send 3,000 troops to Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region.
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The African Union plans to send more  troops into Sudan to reinforce its extended Darfur peacekeeping  mission, an AU spokesman said on Sunday.
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Nigeria sent over 100 troops to Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region on Monday, its contribution to a joint force with Rwanda protecting African Union cease-fire observers.
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Nigeria&#39;s president meets Sunday with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to prepare for upcoming talks on the conflict in Sudan&#39;s
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Nigerian troops have begun arriving in Sudan to form part of an African Union (AU) force that will protect monitors observing a ceasefire between rebels and the Sudanese government.
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U.S. military aircraft flew 47 Nigerian troops to Darfur on Thursday, the first deployment of an expanded African Union mission that is expected to total 3,500 in the troubled Sudanese region.
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The African Union is to begin deploying more than 3,000 additional troops to Sudan's Darfur region within the next two weeks, the head of the 53-member organization's security organ said Wednesday.
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The African Union&#39;s peace and security council Wednesday formally agreed to send as many as 3,200 African peacekeepers to the Darfur region of Sudan to help halt violence
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The African Union will not abandon Darfur but it needs more international support if it is to continue its peacekeeping mission, the AU commission chairman said in a meeting with European Union leaders on Monday.
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A top African Union official said Wednesday the 53-nation group is ready to move thousands of troops to Sudan's western region of Darfur within days if it gets logistical support from Western nations and the United Nations "especially."
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The African Union (AU) said Wednesday at the end of the third day of peace talks on Sudan&#39;s Darfur in Abuja, capital of Nigeria, that it would finalize a protocol on security
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EL-FASHER, Sudan  - An elite contingent of 50  Nigerian soldiers arrived in Darfur on Thursday aboard a U.S.  military plane, the first of 3,000 extra African Union troops  deployed to monitor a shaky cease-fire in Sudan's western  region.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair ordered military chiefs to send up to 3,000 troops to the Sudanese western region of Darfur. The order means that Blair dismissed the concerns that the British army is already
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More peacekeepers are expected in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region on Thursday, as the bloodshed there goes on. Nigeria is sending about 50 troops to augment nearly 400 African Union soldiers already on the ground.
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Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, right, talks to Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, left, during a meeting on Sudan&#39;s Darfur region in Tripoli, Libya Sunday, Oct. 17, 2004.
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UN officials in Sudan said Friday that they hope an expanded AU force will be deployed in Darfur by the end of the month, after Sudan&#39;s foreign minister agreed to allow in 3,500 forces.
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The African Union (AU) has decided to expand the number of African mission in Sudan&#39;s Darfur to assist more effectively in the restoration of peace and security in the region, said an AU communique here on Thursday.