UN begins 3-day mission to assess security in Darfur as deadline approaches
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AL-FASHER, Sudan  - Sudan's minister for humanitarian affairs said Thursday his government has made "serious progress" in improving security and humanitarian relief in the troubled region of Darfur, as a UN team prepared an assessment that could decide whether the African country would be penalized.
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A UN human rights mission which is due to travel to Sudan's strife-torn region of Darfur faces the conflicting tasks of proving its credibility and convincing Khartoum to lift any barriers, diplomats said here.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN Security Council on Saturday adopted a resolution threatening to &quot;consider&quot; sanctions against Sudan and establishing a UN commission of inquiry to investigate atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, and to determine whether Sudanese
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The United Nations secured its first pledges for a proposed major UN peacekeeping force for the strife-torn Sudanese region of Darfur, officials said.
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U.N. investigators arrived in Sudan to determine if genocide took place in Darfur and investigate reports of human rights violations in the war-torn province, a U.N. spokesman said Monday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Tuesday he expected Sudan's government to respond within two days on outstanding issues of an agreement signed last week that would allow U.N. peacekeepers into Darfur.
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A United Nations deadline is set to expire on Monday for the Sudanese authorities to improve security in the troubled Darfur 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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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is urging the Security Council to act quickly to protect civilians in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region.
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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 UN Security Council said it would hold a meeting on the tense situation in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region next Monday following the ambush killing of two Rwandan peacekeepers there.
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Bloomberg - July 16 (Bloomberg) -- The United Nations should authorize a peacekeeping force for Darfur within days, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said amid opposition to a U.S.-backed measure that would send 24,000 soldiers and police to western Sudan.
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The United Nations said on Wednesday it was concerned by Sudan's lack of progress in bringing security to Darfur, where more than a million people have fled their homes for fear of militia attack.
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The United Nations called on Wednesday for a quick and "substantially" larger international monitoring force in Sudan's Darfur region, saying Khartoum had failed to stop attacks against civilians by Arab militia.
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The new U.N. human rights watchdog agreed on Wednesday to send a high-level mission to Sudan's Darfur to probe allegations of worsening abuses against civilians.
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A United Nations team has arrived in Sudan to study if genocide has occurred in the western Darfur region, where fighting has displaced more than 1.5 million people.
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U.N. Security Council members landed  in Khartoum on Sunday looking for assurances for speedy  deployment of at least 20,000 U.N. and African Union police and  troops to Sudan&#39;s violent Darfur region.