Britain preparing to send troops to Sudan's Darfur region
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LONDON : British Prime Minister Tony Blair has ordered the military to prepare to deploy up to 3,000 soldiers to the conflict-torn Sudanese region of Darfur, the Independent on Sunday reports.
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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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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said   on Saturday he would propose an incentive package for Sudan as   part of a new initiative to end the crisis in war-torn Darfur   and get U.N. peacekeeping troops on the ground.
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KHARTOUM, Oct 6  -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair said here Wednesday he handed the Sudanese leadership a list of demands to deal with the &quot;terrible&quot; situation in the war-torn western region of Darfur.
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The UK's foreign secretary is in Sudan's Darfur region where a million have fled attacks by pro-government militias.
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Astronomical quantities of arms and ammunition have poured into Sudan&#39;s Darfur region in the last two weeks and the government is poised for a major military offensive, the African Union said on Friday.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw will travel to Sudan, and may proceed to the embattled region of Darfur the following day, the Foreign Office said.
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A U.S.-British draft resolution introduced Thursday would transfer peacekeeping in Sudan's conflict-wracked Darfur region from the African Union to a much larger U.N. force despite strong oppositon from Sudan.
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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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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is to fly to Sudan this week to meet government leaders to assess the humanitarian and security crisis.
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Sudan has agreed to African Union (AU) plans to deploy an enlarged force of 3,500 troops to the troubled Darfur region, an AU official for conflict management told Reuters on Friday.
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Nigerian troops are due to fly from the Nigerian capital, Abuja, to the western Sudanese region of Darfur to bolster an African Union protection force.
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UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is in Sudan's Darfur region where a million have fled attacks by pro-government militias.
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Troops from Chad entered Sudan's Darfur region in pursuit of Chadian rebels Friday as the U.N. and humanitarian aid groups prepared to pull some workers out of a key border town, fearing an imminent battle.
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Britain warned that the situation in the war-wracked Sudanese region of Darfur was at a crucial phase, with just 12 days to go before the mandate of an African Union peacekeeping force expires.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The Sudanese government faced intense Western and African Union pressure to accept additional observers and soldiers in the Darfur region, as Foreign Secretary Jack Straw of Britain flew to Sudan yesterday to urge the country to do more to disarm marauding militias.
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The European Union is to draw up plans for a force to go to countries neighbouring Sudan's Darfur region.