Rwanda Sends Troops to Protect Truce Monitors in Sudan
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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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Sudan has urged the African Union to extend the mandate of its truce monitors in Darfur, ahead of a crucial vote by the African body and amid mounting pressure on Khartoum to accept UN forces.
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Rwanda's pledge of troops to protect civilians in Darfur should encourage other countries to press Sudan to accept more African Union troops to stop the killing there, Human Rights Watch said.
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The United Nations plans to send 7,000 peacekeepers to southern Sudan to help enforce a peace agreement between the Sudanese government and rebel forces.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Sept. 25 -- The African Union will add 4,000 troops to its Darfur peacekeeping mission, bolstering the 7,000 poorly funded and under-equipped A.U. forces currently monitoring a battered cease-fire.
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African monitors should deploy in camps to help protect the almost 1.5 million people displaced by the conflict in Darfur and should also monitor police to help build trust with the local community, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The African Union said yesterday it will send more peacekeeping troops to Sudan's Darfur region and toughen the soldiers' role in protecting civilians while the international community pressures the Sudanese government to allow a UN military force.
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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 yesterday, marking the first reported UN sightings since Rwanda threatened to send in its forces against Rwanda Hutu rebels sheltering here.
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The U.N. mission in Congo said on  Wednesday it had spotted 100 soldiers, thought to be Rwandan,  in the east of the vast Central African country but Kigali  declined to say whether its troops had crossed the border.
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Rwanda will delay sending troops to Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region by about a week because preparations have not been made to quarter the soldiers, an official said Saturday.
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U.N. peacekeepers deployed an additional brigade in eastern Congo amid reports that Rwanda was threatening to Rwandan rebels based in its huge neighbor, U.N. officials said Wednesday.
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Rwanda is to beef up its contingentto Sudan&#39;s war-torn region of Darfur with more than 600 troops to protect African Union peace observers, Foreign Affairs Minister Charles Muligande said here Monday.
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The US will send three C-130 cargo planes from the Ramstein Airforce base in Germany to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, and will help transport African Union peacekeeping soldiers to Darfur.
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The U.S. Air Force on Friday sent  three cargo planes to carry Rwandan forces and equipment to  Darfur to assist an African Union peacekeeping effort in the  violent region of western Sudan.
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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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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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Sudan said on Sunday the African Union would need Khartoum&#39;s agreement and a new resolution before increasing the number of forces protecting monitors of a shaky ceasefire in the troubled Darfur region.