Sudan Crisis Deadline Expires
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The Sudanese government, which was given 30 days by the UN to rein in Arab militiamen or face penalties, appealed yesterday to the Security Council to make a âreasonable decision.
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With time running out for Sudan's  government and southern rebels to reach a final peace deal  before a Dec. 31 deadline, both sides said Monday they were  hopeful of resolving issues blocking an accord to end 21 years  of civil war.
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A deadline set by militants who have  threatened to behead two Americans and a Briton seized in Iraq  was due to expire Monday, and more than two dozen other  hostages were also facing death unless rebel demands were met.
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A brief timeline of important events in the crisis in western Sudan.
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AL-FASHER, Sudan - Sudan, awaiting word on whether it will be sanctioned by the international community, hopes for a &quot;reasonable decision&quot; from the UN Security Council, the foreign minister said Monday, the UN-imposed deadline for quelling violence in
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The African Union announced on   Wednesday it would extend the stay of its underfinanced force   in Sudan's Darfur region until the end of the year, heading off   an immediate worsening of the crisis.
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Darfur rebels and the Sudanese government  ended peace talks on Sunday in Nigeria in a deadlock on how to  address what the United Nations has called the world's worst  humanitarian crisis.
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A 24-hour deadline for two foreign oil firms to leave Chad expires, as three ministers are sacked in a row over tax.
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ABUJA, Dec 11  -- African Union-sponsored peace negotiations on the crisis in the western Sudanese region of Darfur were to resume Saturday, a spokesman for the continental body told AFP.
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A deadline is raising tensions and upping the stakes in a UN-Khartoum showdown.
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A deadline set by militants who have  threatened to kill two Americans and a Briton seized in Iraq  was due to expire Monday, and more than two dozen other  hostages were also facing death unless rebel demands were met.
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ABUJA, Nigeria  - The Sudanese government has  failed to comply with a deadline to stop fighting in Darfur, an  African Union spokesman said Sunday, describing fresh  helicopter strikes against a village in South Darfur state.
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The Sudanese government announced that it does not take into consideration the one month grace period given by the UN Security Council and ends by August to achieve a progress and fulfill Khartoum&#39;s obligations over Darfur crisis else face possible
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A deadline expires later for members of the Ugandan rebel LRA to arrive at assembly points in southern Sudan.
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Sudan's government and southern rebels resumed talks on a final peace deal on Thursday amid fears that tensions in the oil-producing south and the newer Darfur crisis could plunge Africa's biggest country into chaos. Underscoring the external pressures on Khartoum to end its 21-year-old southern civil war, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special representative to Sudan, Jan Pronk, warned both sides not to re-open previous agreements signed in May.
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Britain and the United States must stop   making threats over the crisis in Sudan's vast Darfur region   because the government in Khartoum knows they can't back them   up with action, a leading British diplomat said on Friday.
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Violence and fear still ruled the lives of the displaced inhabitants of Sudanâs Darfur region as the United Nations deadline set for civilian protection and militia disarmament passed this week.