Sudan conflict under UN spotlight
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UN Security Council  diplomats are in Kenya to push for a Sudan peace deal and progress on Darfur.
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UNITED NATIONS  - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called for urgent action Thursday to stop attacks on civilians in western Sudan and announced he is sending UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour of Canada and a special adviser on genocide, Juan Mendes, to Sudan this weekend to see what can be done to provide better protection for civilians in the Darfur region.
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Envoys from the United Nations and African Union began a mission to revive peace talks in the troubled western Sudanese region of Darfur amid fresh reports of violence.
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While most of the country&#39;s attention has been focused on Iraq, a human-rights crisis has been unfolding in north Africa. In Darfur, Sudan, more than 50,000 people have been killed and 1.2 million displaced
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A draft United Nations resolution on the Sudan crisis is scheduled to be discussed by security council members in New York today. It has been drawn up by the US and calls for the African Union monitoring force
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NAIROBI  - The UN Security Council will hold a rare meeting outside its New York base this week to focus on Sudan amid mounting alarm over the crisis in Darfur and little sign of an immediate breakthrough in peace talks between Khartoum and southern
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Sudanese and U.N. officials point at possible compromise over U.N. peacekeeping efforts for Darfur
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NATO officials say they are considering a United Nations request to support a possible African Union peacekeeping mission in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region.
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ABU SHOUK CAMP, Sudan  - The Sudanese government  is trying to meet U.N. demands to end the conflict in Darfur  that has killed up to 50,000 people but needs to do more,  British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Tuesday.
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UNITED NATIONS -- A U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force faced the first major challenge to its authority in Darfur, Sudan, this week, enduring more than 10 minutes of hostile fire from Sudanese forces without responding with a single shot.
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There is no doubt that we are in a time of chaos in the world. Wars and genocide are as prevalent as ever.     Misery and suffering are on every continent of the globe we call earth. The world is currently focused on the 'War In Iraq' and the problem of nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea but the sad fact is threats to world peace are as prevalent as ever in spite of the efforts of the UN.    Where do we turn? Our respective governments? Grassroots support? Does genocide on the African continent for example even matter?    It is not unreasonable to look to the United Nations for understanding and problem resolution. Presumably, we expect it to be an unbiased and peace loving organization. Yet at closer examination one begins to realize the fact that the United Nations has been a total failure in terms of world peace. Rarely has the UN brought enough countries together to form an alliance to intervene meaningfully in the affairs of an oppressive and brutal country.    With the exception of the World Health Organization little good has come from the peace making mission of the U.N. I suggest the UN go to what it does best. With its world standing already established, the UN should focus on research, education and health, the missions it does best.
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KHARTOUM : Violence and human rights abuses in Sudan&#39;s conflict-torn Darfur region have diminished, but both Khartoum and the two rebel groups have to work harder to bring peace, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers said.
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Sudanese government delegation walks away from the venue of the Sudanese peace talks on the Darfur crisis in Abuja, Nigeria, Saturday, Sept 4. The government of Sudan and the Sudanese rebel delegates are asking for more time to study the United Nations
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A deadline is raising tensions and upping the stakes in a UN-Khartoum showdown.
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UN Security Council members have arrived in Nairobi for a two-day meeting devoted to the conflicts engulfing Sudan, including the western Darfur region.
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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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Description: The UN Security Council meets in Nairobi, Kenya, on Nov. 17 to address the civil war and humanitarian crisis in Sudan.