Sudan asks African force to leave Darfur by September 30
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Sudan has asked African Union forces   monitoring a shaky truce in its violent Darfur region to leave   the country when their mandate ends on September 30, a   spokesman said on Sunday.
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UNITED NATIONS : An expanded African force must be urgently deployed in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said in a report discussed by the UN Security Council.
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President Jacques Chirac has urged Sudan to agree to a peace force for strife-torn Darfur at an Africa-France summit that is likely to be his last foray on the world stage.
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Sudan agreed on Tuesday to a combined United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force of more than 20,000 troops and police to be deployed in its troubled Darfur region after months of intense diplomacy.
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KHARTOUM -- Sudan yesterday asked African Union forces monitoring a shaky truce in Darfur to leave the country by Sept. 30, as the government launched a new offensive that threatens a return to full-blown war. Khartoum last week rejected a UN Security Council resolution to deploy peacekeeping troops to replace the cash-strapped and ill-equipped AU force, and instead has moved ...
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The African Union said Saturday that Sudan had started withdrawing troops in the Darfur region ahead of an evening deadline to end fighting there, but the government
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The United Nations and the  African Union were close to a deal on Wednesday on fielding  23,000 peacekeepers in Sudan&#39;s violent Darfur region, but full  deployment is not expected until next year at the earliest.
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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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KHARTOUM, Sudan, Sept. 3 -- Sudan on Sunday asked African Union forces monitoring a shaky truce in its Darfur region to leave the country by Sept. 30, as the government launched a new offensive threatening a return to full-blown war.
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The African Union is to begin deploying more than 3,000 additional troops to Sudan's Darfur region within the next two weeks, the head of the 53-member organization's security organ said Wednesday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Wednesday a much larger international force was needed in Sudan's Darfur region "as soon as possible" since the government has failed to fully protect African villagers from Arab militias.
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ABUJA, Dec 18  -- Sudanese government troops have not yet began to withdraw from positions seized in a recent offensive against rebels in the Darfur region as demanded in an African Union ultimatum, a senior AU diplomat told AFP on Saturday.
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KHARTOUM - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned Sudan   on Tuesday it would be responsible for any worsening of the   humanitarian crisis in Darfur if African Union forces left   because of a standoff with Khartoum over control of the   mission.
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The African Union said on Saturday that  Sudan had started withdrawing troops in Darfur ahead of an  evening deadline to end fighting in the troubled region.
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The African Union says its first contingent of peacekeepers for the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur will be deployed this weekend.
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Sudan will allow African Union troops   to remain in its turbulent Darfur region but only if their AU   mandate was extended beyond September 30 and not as part of a   U.N. force, a presidential advisor said on Monday.
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Sudan said on Monday it would allow   African troops to remain in Darfur only under African Union   (AU) control and accused Washington of attempting "regime   change" in Khartoum by trying to bring in a U.N. force.