Darfuris hold high hopes for new Darfur force
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ABU SHOUK CAMP, Sudan  - Darfuris who have waited almost five years in miserable camps have high expectations for a joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force due to deploy by the end of the year.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said  on Thursday that he hoped Sudan would soon accept U.N.  peacekeepers in Darfur and called Khartoum&#039;s continuing refusal  &quot;incomprehensible.&quot;
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The United Nations is optimistic Sudan will stick to an accord on a U.N.-African Union force for troubled Darfur, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Wednesday, but some diplomats feared Khartoum had set conditions.
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Sudan will deploy new integrated forces in Darfur to work alongside African Union peacekeepers in providing security in the region, President Omar al-Beshir said.
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A senior Sudanese official says his government plans to send more police to the troubled Darfur region to help restore stability there.
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Sudanese and U.N. officials point at possible compromise over U.N. peacekeeping efforts for Darfur
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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 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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U.N. Security Council members on Sunday said they had assurances from Sudan that command and control of a joint African Union-U.N. force in Darfur would be under the world body.
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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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Rwandan troops arrived in Darfur Sunday as the first foreign force there, mandated to protect observers monitoring a shaky cease-fire between the Sudanese government and rebels in the remote western region.
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EL FASHER, Sudan -- The African Union transferred authority Monday to a new joint peacekeeping force with the United Nations in Darfur that the international community hopes will stem the violence in Sudan's war-torn western region.
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The State Department says it hopes the US military airlift of more African Union peacekeepers into Sudan&#39;s Darfur region will help end continuing violence there.
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The new United Nations peacekeeping force for Darfur in Sudan is due to start its operations on Monday.
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Sudan has accepted a United  Nations-African Union peacekeeping force of up to 23,000 troops  and police for Darfur but some U.N. diplomats fear conditions  may be attached.
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The African Union, the United Nations and the Sudanese government opened talks here Monday on the deployment of a hybrid AU-UN force of up to 20,000 peacekeepers to Sudan&#39;s war-torn region of Darfur.
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The United Nations will increase the number of unarmed staff in Sudan's Darfur region in hopes their presence will increase security for a population frightened by continuing government and militia attacks, an official said Thursday.