UN deadline on Darfur approaches
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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 UN hosts talks aimed at speeding the deployment of peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region.
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His time at the helm of the world body nearing an end, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan stepped up his efforts Tuesday to force a halt to atrocities in Darfur, demanding the U.N. Human Rights Council send an independent team of investigators to the volatile Sudanese region.
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The United Nations and the United States expressed concern that it could take until early next year to deploy a 4,000-strong African Union force to Sudan's conflict-ridden Darfur region and called for much speedier action.
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Attacks on refugees in Sudan's Darfur  region are still a major problem, a senior U.N. official said  Monday, as a deadline arrived for Sudan to give them better  protection or face U.N. sanctions.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 24  (IPS) - The European Union is beginning to take action over  the human rights crisis in Darfur  ahead of the Aug. 29 United  Nations deadline to the Sudanese government.
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Days before a UN deadline for Sudan to disarm and prosecute those responsible for violence in the country&#39;s Darfur region, nations are looking to the African Union
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United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Kofi Annan has called on the Security Council to take action on the escalating violence in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday Darfur was close to a catastrophe, as the United States sought to rebuke Sudan for trying to scare off potential U.N. troop contributors.
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In disregard of looming UN Aug. 30 deadline to end fighting in the western Darfur region, the Sudanese government seeks to restore order there through the African Union (AU)-brokered peace talks with the rebel
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The U.N. Security Council is expected to authorize up to 26,000 troops and police for Darfur but implementation will take months providing the world body finds enough personnel and Sudan cooperates.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Aug 19, 2004  -- As the month-end deadline nears for Sudan to disarm the Janjaweed militias in Darfur, the United Nations and Western powers debate how far to go to stop the killing ...
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U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called for immediate action on Wednesday to end what he termed a near hell on earth in Sudan's western Darfur region.
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THE fate of two million people fighting for survival in the Sudan will be decided in the next 24 hours. Red Cross trucks loaded with food and relief supplies are poised to enter Sudan&#39;s arid Darfur region.
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KHARTOUM, August 21 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - Eight days before the expiry of the UN Security Council deadline on Darfur, Sudan said it would disarm militias in the troubled area gradually, and signed a deal with the United Nations saying it
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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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by our Internet desk, 16 November 2004. The United Nations is coming under increased pressure to impose sanctions on Sudan&#39;s government for its activities in the Darfur region.