UN Envoy Says 10,000 Peacekeepers Needed for Sudan
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The United Nations will  recommend up to 10,000 peacekeepers for Sudan if Khartoum and  southern rebels sign a landmark peace agreement to end a  21-year-old civil war, a senior U.N. envoy said on Tuesday.
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A high-level United Nations delegation arrived Tuesday in Sudan to press a reluctant government to accept a large force of U.N. peacekeepers in the strife-torn Darfur region.
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US special envoy to Sudan Andrew Natsios arrived in Khartoum to try to persuade Sudanese officials to accept a joint United Nations/African Union peace force in Darfur where the UN says hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, raped or displaced.
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The U.N. envoy to Sudan pressed the government to accept an international monitoring force of more than 3,000 troops to help prevent escalating militia attacks in the Darfur region.
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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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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged U.N. member states on Thursday to provide critically needed aviation, transport and logistics units for the new African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force in Sudan's conflict-wracked Darfur region.
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The top United Nations envoy to Sudan postponed talks Wednesday with rebel officials in southern Sudan until he can meet with their leader to negotiate the deployment of up to 10,000 peacekeepers to monitor an accord aimed at ending Africa's longest-running conflict.
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Sudan's justice minister said that 10 members of the regular forces are to be tried for human rights abuses in Darfur, the area which the United Nations says is the scene of the world's worst current humanitarian disaster.
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The UN envoy to Sudan urged the government to accept an international monitoring force with more than 3,000 troops to help prevent escalating militia attacks in the violence-wracked Darfur region.
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Warning that Darfur is descending into anarchy, the top UN envoy to Sudan urged the Security Council Thursday to quickly deploy African troops to deter violence and speed up peace talks
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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.
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The Security Council on Friday endorsed a report on a planned UN-African Union (AU) joint peacekeeping mission in Darfur that calls on Khartoum to allow a mobile force of up to 23,000 troops and police in the war-torn region.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recommended on Tuesday peacekeeping operations of up to 11,000 personnel for Chad and the Central African Republic to stanch the spillover from the Darfur conflict in Sudan.
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Despite pressure for Sudan to accept a peacekeeping force of 23,000 troops and police, a key African Union committee has not approved plans sent by the United Nations, diplomats said on Thursday.
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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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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.
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The U.N. Security Council said Monday it would speedily consider sending peacekeepers to Sudan to support a new peace deal and urged the new government of national unity to work actively to end the conflict in western Darfur.