Obasanjo Seeks Senate Approval to Deploy Troops to Darfur
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President Olusegun Obasanjo on 17 August asked the Senate for permission to deploy Nigerian troops to the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur.
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Sudan's president again rejected the deployment of U.N. peacekeeping troops in the war-torn Darfur region during a meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Saturday. But one of the country's two vice presidents said he would accept international intervention.
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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday proposed to give a greater role to African Union (AU) troops in restoring peace to Sudan&#39;s Darfur region on the eve of talks between the Sudanese government and rebels.
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A U.S.-British-drafted  resolution to create a United Nations peacekeeping force in  Sudan's Darfur region faces a vote on Thursday but troops will  not be deployed without consent from the Khartoum government.
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UN mission officials in Sudan said Friday they hope an expanded African force will be on the ground in Darfur by the end of October, after Sudan&#39;s foreign minister agreed to allow in 3,500 outside troops.
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The international community should send peacekeepers to Darfur with or without Khartoum's approval, Sudanese First Vice President Salva Kiir has said.
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Nigeria&#39;s President Olusegun Obasanjo warned Sudan to move more quickly to disarm the feared Janjaweed militia and called for African Union peacekeepers to be sent to Darfur.
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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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The Security Council on Friday endorsed a report on a planned UN-African Union (AU) joint peacekeeping mission in Darfur that calls on Khartoum to allow a mobile force of up to 23,000 troops and police in the war-torn region.
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Warning that Darfur is descending into anarchy, the top UN envoy to Sudan urged the Security Council Thursday to quickly deploy African troops to deter violence and speed up peace talks
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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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U.N. mission officials in Sudan said Friday they hope an expanded African force will be on the ground in Darfur by the end of October, after Sudan's foreign minister agreed to allow in 3,500 outside troops.
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The UN Security Council should impose an African Union force of at least 3,000 troops on Sudan with a mandate to protect civilians in the western region of Darfur, the International Crisis Group said on Monday.
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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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NEW YORK  - The African Union can quickly mobilize up to 5,000 troops to help end the looting and killing in western Sudan, but it needs hundreds of millions of dollars to deploy the force and so far it's received just &#36;20 million, says Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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Britain and the United States  called for a vote on Thursday on a U.N. resolution to allow the  United Nations to begin assembling a peacekeeping force for  Sudan's Darfur region, despite opposition from the government  in Khartoum.
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UNITED NATIONS: The African Union will determine in early October whether it can mobilise a force of 3000 to 5000 to help stop atrocities in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said today.