Ban to press for peace in Darfur
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon heads to Sudan, seeking an end to violence in Darfur province.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon  should press Sudan to arrest and hand over two suspects charged  with war crimes in Darfur when he visits Khartoum next week,  the chief prosecutor said on Friday.
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A senior Sudanese government official says international pressure to bring peace to the war-torn Darfur region of western Sudan may scuttle negotiations to end the violence.
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JUBA, Sudan  - A prominent Darfur rebel figure and five other smaller factions will not attend peace talks due to start this weekend in Libya, leaders said on Tuesday, casting doubt on prospects for a settlement.
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SIRTE, Libya  - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew to Libya on Saturday for a meeting with leader Muammar Gaddafi to discuss Libya's role as a mediator in an upcoming Darfur peace conference.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Sudan on Monday in a bid to jumpstart the peace process in strife-torn Darfur ahead of a massive joint UN-African Union peacekeeping operation.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will press for speedy deployment of a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force in Darfur and a quick start to new peace talks to end the four-year conflict there during his visit to Sudan starting Monday.
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The United States plans to announce tough new sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday before working out a resolution in the United Nations in an intensified effort to end the bloodshed in Darfur.
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The UN Security Council has approved a resolution threatening oil sanctions against Sudan unless it halts atrocities in Darfur. The resolution also orders an investigation into charges that the terror in Darfur constitutes genocide.
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The third round of peace talks aimedat ending a 22-month-old crisis in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region has been suspended after the rebels accused government forces of continuing attacking them.
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A US-backed United Nations resolution threatening sanctions over the violence in Darfur will only make it harder for the government to calm an insurrection in the region, a Sudanese official said today.
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African Union mediators worked Tuesday to break a rebel boycott of talks to bring peace to Darfur, the western region of Sudan where fighting has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
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JUBA, Sudan  - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited south Sudan's capital Juba on Tuesday to try to speed implementation of the 2005 peace deal that ended Africa's longest civil war.
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Sudan said it ordered the military to stop fighting in the bloodied Darfur region even as rebels alleged new attacks and said they would uphold a boycott of stalemated peace talks.
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UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw today will visit Sudan to press government officials for action on protecting refugees in the nation&#39;s Darfur region as peace talks sponsored by the African Union are held in Nigeria.
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Sudan rejected a wider role for African peacekeepers in putting down violence and disarming militiamen in the Darfur region, as Sudanese and rebel officials opened peace talks Monday under heavy international pressure to find a solution to the crisis.
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Darfur rebels suspended formal peace talks in Nigeria on Monday to put pressure on the government to halt an offensive in the vast desert region, delegates said.