2 nations opt out of UN force for Darfur
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Sweden and Norway have dropped plans to send about 400 troops to the U.N. peacekeeping force in Darfur because of opposition from Sudan's government, a Swedish Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday.
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The United Nations Security Council authorized on Tuesday a European Union force and U.N. police to help protect civilians in Chad and the Central African Republic caught in the spillover from the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region.
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Sudan&#39;s government hasn&#39;t met United Nations demands to disarm the Janjaweed militia that drove 1.2 million black Africans from their homes in the Darfur region of western Sudan, a draft
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The U.N. Security Council dropped an appeal Friday urging Sudan to quickly allow a robust peacekeeping force in violence-wracked Darfur, approving instead a watered-down statement that took the focus off the Sudanese government.
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British charity, Save the Children UK has withdrawn its humanitarian operations in the troubled Darfur region of western Sudan. In a statement yesterday, the NGOâs Director-General Mike Aaronson, said &quot;due
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Africa News, ABUJA - The African Union said Sudan began withdrawing troops in Darfur before a Saturday deadline to end fighting in the western region, but Khartoum said the pull-back was conditional on rebels halting attacks.
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The government of Sudan has ordered the country directors of two British-based aid agencies that provide relief to displaced people in the Darfur region to leave
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KHARTOUM, Sudan, Nov. 17 -- A top Sudanese official on Friday signaled that his government would accept U.N. troops as part of an African-led peacekeeping mission in Sudan's western region of Darfur, but perhaps not as many as Western nations have sought under an agreement aimed at ending the...
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Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir  said on Saturday he did not want a U.N. peacekeeping force in  Darfur under any circumstances.
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International pressure forced Sudan to accept a plan to deploy a combined U.N. and AU peacekeeping force of at least 20,000 troops in its troubled Darfur region, opposition parties said on Tuesday.
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UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 5 -- Sudan stepped up opposition to a U.N. peacekeeping mission for Darfur, warning that it would consider any country's pledge to supply police or troops to a U.N. force "a hostile act" and a "prelude to an invasion" of the Islamic country.
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A joint African-United Nations force took over peacekeeping duties in Darfur on Monday, a long-awaited change that is intended to be the strongest effort yet to solve the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
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Sudan's ruling party has rejected a proposed Security Council resolution to transfer peacekeeping duties in conflict-wracked Darfur to a U.N. force, saying it would violate national sovereignty, official media reported Thursday.
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A UNITED Nations deadline imposed on Sudan to halt the conflict in Darfur expired yesterday with the authorities in Khartoum accused of failing to meet their obligations to protect civilians and rein in the Janjaweed militia.
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The United States has called an emergency meeting of the Security Council to protest a Sudanese letter warning African and Arab countries against contributing to a proposed UN peacekeeping force for war-torn Darfur.
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Britain and France softened a U.N. resolution on Tuesday that would authorize up to 26,000 troops and police in Darfur by dropping a threat of "further measures" against Sudanese obstructing peace efforts.
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As the month-end deadline nears for Sudan to disarm the mostly Arab pro-government militias in Darfur, the United Nations and Western powers are in a dilemma over how far to go to stop the killing in an African country.