U.N. Wants Stronger Mandate for AU Monitors in Darfur
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - African Union (AU) monitors of  a shaky cease-fire in Sudan's remote Darfur region should have  an expanded mandate but stop short of peacekeeping, a United  Nations official in Sudan said Wednesday.
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Human Rights Watch urged the United  Nations Security Council on Thursday to impose targeted  sanctions on Sudan if it fails to stop attacks on civilians in  Darfur or disrupts the work of a planned peacekeeping force.
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African Union forces are not equal to  task of securing Darfur and Sudan must allow them to be  replaced by a bigger, better-funded U.N. peacekeeping mission,  U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday.
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The African Union plans to send more   troops into Sudan to reinforce its extended Darfur peacekeeping   mission, an AU spokesman said on Sunday.
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Several thousand military observers are urgently needed to improve security in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region, a UN envoy has said.
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More police, human rights monitors and African Union peacekeepers are urgently needed in Sudan's western Darfur region where fighting rages on despite a peace accord ending a separate conflict in southern Sudan, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday.
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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 United Nations said on Tuesday  Arab militias were still attacking villages in Sudan's Darfur  region despite government pledges, and Secretary-General Kofi  Annan said Khartoum must do much more to protect civilians.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged the Security Council to strengthen African Union forces in the Sudan's violence-wracked Darfur region and more than double it if a U.N. takeover of peacekeeping duties is approved.
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More police, human rights  monitors and African Union peacekeepers are urgently needed in  Sudan's western Darfur region where fighting rages on despite a  peace accord ending a separate conflict in southern Sudan, a  senior U.N. official said on Tuesday.
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The African Union has objected to a proposal for a 23,000-strong AU-U.N. force to help end the bloodshed in Sudan's troubled Darfur region because it would give the United Nations command and control, U.N. diplomats said.
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The African Union's peace and   security council is expected to extend the mandate of its   underfinanced force in Darfur on Wednesday until the end of the   year, diplomats said.
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Sudan will agree to expanding the mandate of African Union (AU) monitors in its Darfur region to allow them to document human rights abuses, Justice Minister Ali Mohamed Osman Yassin said on Thursday.
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The UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, called for a substantial and speedy expansion of the international forces in Darfur after reporting that the Sudanese government had failed to stop attacks on civilians.
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A hybrid U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force for the Darfur region of Sudan has received sufficient pledges for participation, though critical needs remain for technical support and an engineer corps, a top U.N. official said.
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The African Union plans to send more   troops into Sudan to reinforce its extended peacekeeping   mission in war-ravaged Darfur, an AU spokesman said on Sunday.
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The Security Council on Friday weighed a report on a planned UN-African Union (AU) joint peacekeeping mission in Darfur, including a call on Khartoum to allow a mobile force of up to 23,000 troops and police in the war-torn region.