Rwandan Troops Arrive in Darfur
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Dozens of Rwandan soldiers flew into Sudan's troubled Darfur region Sunday, the first foreign armed force deployed in the area since Arab militiamen began a rampage against black African farmers, killing thousands.
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Ugandan soldiers landed in the Somali  capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, the first African Union  peacekeepers to arrive in the city where the interim government  and its Ethiopian allies face almost daily guerrilla attacks.
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EL-FASHER, Sudan -- A contingent of 50 Nigerian soldiers arrived in Darfur yesterday aboard a US military plane, the first of 3,000 additional African Union troops deployed to monitor an unsteady cease-fire in Sudan's western region.
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Dozens of Rwandan soldiers flew into Sudan's troubled Darfur region Sunday, the first foreign armed forces deployed in the area since Arab militiamen began a rampage against black African farmers, killing tens of thousands.
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Rwandan troops were airlifted on Sunday  to Sudan's Darfur as the first foreign force there, mandated to  protect observers monitoring a cease-fire between the Sudanese  government and rebels in the troubled western region.
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Forty-three Nigerian troops flew to Sudan&#39;s violence-wracked Darfur region on Thursday, the first of thousands of soldiers being deployed to bolster a tiny African Union peacekeeping force.
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The first African Union peacekeepers  arrived in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday aboard a  cargo plane, the AU said.
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GOMA, Congo  - UN observers encountered what they believed to be about 100 Rwandan troops in eastern Congo, a UN official said Wednesday, marking the first UN sighting since Rwanda threatened to send in its forces against Rwanda Hutu rebels sheltering there.
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A battalion of Rwandan peacekeeping troops scheduled to arrive in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region this weekend will be delayed by a week because of logistical problems, Rwanda said on Sunday.
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The UN confirmed today that Rwandan troops have crossed the border into Congo in pursuit of rebel forces and was investigating reports that villages had been set ablaze.
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One hundred Rwandan troops arrived in the Darfur town of El Fasher on Sunday as part of an expanding African Unionmission to monitor a shaky ceasefire for the conflict-ravaged province in western Sudan, an AFP photographer reported.
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KIGALI -- Three US Air Force cargo planes and 120 US troops landed in Rwanda yesterday to transport Rwandan soldiers and equipment to Darfur as part of an expanded African Union peacekeeping mission in the violent region. Several dozen soldiers unloaded boxes full of rifles and handguns on the tarmac of Kigali airport on the outskirts of the capital.
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Trucks loaded with food and other relief supplies began a two-week trek to Sudan's vast Darfur region Friday, opening a mammoth Red Cross effort to help hundreds of thousands of people made homeless by ethnic fighting.
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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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Rwandan troops who crossed into DR Congo are sighted for the first time by UN staff as people flee fighting.
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The first Rwandan peacekeeping troops have been airlifted into the Sudanese region of Darfur aboard two US transport planes. Sixty-five Rwandan officers and soldiers arrived with their supplies.
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Forty-three Nigerian troops flew to Sudan's violence-wracked Darfur region on Thursday, the first of thousands of soldiers being deployed to bolster a tiny African Union peacekeeping force.