UN calls for ceasefire in Darfur
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The UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has expressed deep concern at the deteriorating security situation in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan.
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The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for the civil war in the south of Sudan to be halted as soon as possible.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in Darfur on Wednesday that negotiators were close to setting new peace talks between the government and rebels, an essential step toward ending civilian bloodshed in the devastated region of Sudan.
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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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Amnesty International urged the UN Security Council on Tuesday to impose a mandatory arms embargo on Sudan to stop all parties to the conflict in Darfur committing human rights abuses.
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The U.N. human rights chief on Wednesday urged the Security Council to immediately refer abuses in Darfur to the International Criminal Court, while Kofi Annan called for "urgent action" to end the violence in the vast region in western Sudan.
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The United Nations has warned the government in Sudan to end the violence happening in the African country. There has been loads of fighting in the western region of Darfur where more than a million people have fled their homes and thousands are dying.
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Sudan's president says he is ready to call a ceasefire with rebels ahead of peace talks on Darfur next month.
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UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned yesterday that a recent surge of fighting in Sudan's Darfur region could hurt next month's political negotiations on ending the four-year conflict.
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A ceasefire in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region is not holding, with reports of an aerial bombardment and attacks by rebels, the United Nations says.
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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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EL-GENEINA, Sudan  - African Union envoy Salim Ahmed Salim on Sunday urged all parties to Darfur's 4-1/2-year-old conflict to commit to a ceasefire to support peace talks due to begin in October.
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ABU SHOUK CAMP, Sudan  - The Sudanese government  is trying to meet U.N. demands to end the conflict in Darfur  that has killed up to 50,000 people but needs to do more,  British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Tuesday.
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The Sudanese government is trying to meet U.N. demands to end the conflict in Darfur that has killed up to 50,000 people but needs to do more, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Tuesday.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan - UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon urged Sudanese yesterday to seize the "historic opportunity" of a new peacekeeping force in Darfur to start a conclusive round of peace talks that would end the conflict.
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The United Nations Security Council has been urged to act to end ethnic cleansing in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region. Human Rights Watch is calling for an arms embargo and travel sanctions on Sudan&#39;s officials for failing
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Sudan said on Sunday it would immediately and unconditionally cease hostilities in its remote Darfur region, and asked the United Nations and African Union to request that rebel forces do the same.