West ups calls on Sudan to accept Darfur troops
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The United States and the European Union stepped up calls on Friday for Sudan to let international troops in to support African Union forces in Darfur amid growing talk of sanctions on Khartoum.
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The European Union is likely to announce a contribution of more than 100 million euros to an African Union force in Darfur, amid calls for extra AU soldiers to be deployed in Sudan's troubled region.
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Sudan has urged the UN Security Council to support the African Unionâs peace efforts in resolving the crisis in its western Darfur region.
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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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United States WASHINGTON -- President Bush suggested yesterday it may be time to send international peacekeepers into Sudan's war-torn Darfur region over the objections of the government in Khartoum. Bush said ``there are other alternatives, like passing a UN resolution saying we're coming in with a UN force in order to save lives" than waiting for the government to invite ...
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Sudan has agreed to allow 3,500 African Union troops into war-ravaged western Darfur as a means of building confidence among civilians, mostly blacks, who, UN officials
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UN chief Kofi Annan's special envoy to Sudan urged the Sudanese government to accept international aid if it is unable to protect the population in its troubled Darfur region.
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The United Nations has welcomed a proposal by Egypt to send 2,500 troops to Darfur as part of a joint UN-African Union force aimed at ending violence in western Sudan, a senior Egyptian diplomat said.
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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 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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International pressure forced Sudan to accept a plan to deploy a combined U.N. and AU peacekeeping force of at least 20,000 troops in its troubled Darfur region, opposition parties said on Tuesday.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The government yesterday scorned Western threats to use sanctions and no-fly zones to pressure Sudan into accepting UN peacekeepers in Darfur, saying harsh measures would not end the violence there.
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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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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw flew to Sudan on Monday to keep up international pressure on Khartoum to comply with UN demands to end the conflict in Darfur that has already killed up to 50,000 people.
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Senior United Nations diplomats will  seek to persuade Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir&#039;s  government on Tuesday to accept a U.N. peacekeeping force in  the western Darfur region.
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NATO officials say they are considering a United Nations request to support a possible African Union peacekeeping mission in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region.
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Sudan is to accept the deployment of more African peacekeepers for the cantonment of the rebels in Darfur, Sudanese Agriculture Minister Majzoub al-Khalifa said Wednesday, as