UN urges quick start for Darfur force
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The UN special envoy to Sudan has urged African states to speed up moves to send a large force to Darfur and called on the West to back their efforts with generous logistical support.
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Somalia's transitional government urged the Security Council on Friday to speed up its planning for the possible deployment of a U.N. peacekeeping force to replace African Union troops in the war-wracked nation.
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UNITED NATIONS - The African Union communicated to the UN Thursday its decision to send an expanded force of troops and police with a broad mandate to protect aid workers, monitors and civilians in Sudanâs strife-torn Darfur region.
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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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United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on Thursday called for an early conclusion of Sudan&#39;s north-south peace talks and an speedy end of the northern African country&#39;s Darfur crisis.
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The United Nations and the African Union kicked off a high-level meeting on Darfur on Friday in hopes of speeding up deployment of a peacekeeping force and expanding humanitarian aid.
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The United Nations secretary-general has urged the Security Council to take immediate action over a US draft resolution on Sudan&#39;s Darfur region.
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The United Nations told Sudan on   Tuesday it was sending military experts to Darfur to help the   under-equipped African Union force, a move that needs   Khartoum's support, officials said.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban  Ki-moon told the 15-member U.N. Security Council on Monday to  move quickly in authorizing up to 26,000 troops and police in  Darfur, an apparent reference to a dispute among members.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan is sending a top aide to Sudan to press his case for  bolstering an African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur with  substantial U.N. resources, a spokesman said on Monday.
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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 UN hosts talks aimed at speeding the deployment of peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region.
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Back in Geneva following a weeklong visit to the troubled Darfur region of Sudan, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights today said the external security and humanitarian presence there should be quickly expanded.
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More peacekeepers are needed in Sudan's Darfur region to protect refugees, a top UN envoy says.
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The United Nations humanitarian chief warned Tuesday of a catastrophic situation developing in Darfur unless international donors act soon to bolster a beleaguered African peacekeeping force in the Sudanese province.
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The United States, China, France and other key world players meeting Monday are hoping to speed deployment of peacekeepers to Darfur and consolidate sometimes disparate international efforts for the ravaged Sudanese region.
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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.