Head of planned Darfur hybrid peacekeeping mission optimistic
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The head of the planned hybrid African Union-UN peacekeeping force for Sudan&#39;s war-torn western Darfur region is optimistic for his mission while acknowledging the complexity of the task.
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The State Department says it hopes the US military airlift of more African Union peacekeepers into Sudan&#39;s Darfur region will help end continuing violence there.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon will seek to jumpstart the Darfur peace process during a week-long tour of Sudan, Chad and Libya beginning Monday, ahead of a joint UN-African Union peacekeeping operation in the strife-torn Sudanese region.
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The African Union, the United Nations and the Sudanese government opened talks here Monday on the deployment of a hybrid AU-UN force of 23,000 peacekeepers to Sudan&#39;s war-torn region of Darfur.
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The U.N. Security Council will  recommend that the world body fund a joint African Union-U.N.  peacekeeping mission for Darfur, after receiving assurances it  would be controlled by the U.N, envoys said on Sunday.
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The U.N. Secretary-General said on Sunday he was encouraged by the "credible progress" he felt had been made towards peace in Darfur during an Africa tour, but it was too early to talk of tangible results.
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Liu Guijin, China's special representative to Darfur, yesterday trumpeted his country's success in persuading the Sudanese government in Khartoum to approve a hybrid African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force for the troubled Darfur region.
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A UN Security Council team and African Union officials on Saturday discussed the speedy deployment of a hybrid force in Darfur following Khartoum&#39;s long-awaited nod for the peacekeepers.
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Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir said he wanted the African Union peacekeeping mission in war-torn Darfur to continue, accusing the UN of harbouring a &quot;hidden agenda.&quot;
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Sudanese and U.N. officials point at possible compromise over U.N. peacekeeping efforts for Darfur
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The senior United Nations envoy to Sudan today began his last mission to the war-torn Darfur region ahead of next week&#39;s meeting of the Security Council, which will decide whether the Government is making good on commitments to restore security and disarm
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Sudanese officials welcome the African Union's decision to extend its Darfur mandate until the end of the year.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon  arrived in Sudan on Monday to lay the groundwork for a solution  to the Darfur conflict through talks and deployment of  thousands of peacekeepers.
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The planned peacekeeping force for Sudan's Darfur region will take most of 2008 to deploy fully, the UN says.
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A new joint African Union-United Nations force was poised to take over peacekeeping in Darfur on Monday from an AU mission which has struggled to stem nearly five years of violence in the western Sudanese region.
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The hybrid UN-African peace force due to deploy in weeks to Darfur in Sudan is "being set up to fail", a report warns.
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European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana noted an improvement in the security and humanitarian situation in Sudan's crisis-hit Darfur region and pledged millions of dollars to help an African mission enforce a ceasefire.