Attacks go on as Sudan flirts with sanctions
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AFRICAN Union monitors are investigating claims that Sudanese helicopter gunships bombed a village just days before the expiry of the United Nationsâ deadline for the Khartoum government to end the violence in Darfur.
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The United Nations should impose targeted sanctions on the Sudanese government if it continues to attack civilians and humanitarian workers in the Darfur region, a U.S.-based human rights organization said in a new report.
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Sudan and Western powers plunged into a war of words over Darfur on Friday, with Khartoum countering US charges of genocide by saying Washington was playing electoral politics with a humanitarian crisis.
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The African Union confirmed Saturday that an attack took place on a Darfur camp and called on all parties to exercise restraint ahead of peace talks in Libya next week.
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President George W. Bush tightened U.S. sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday and sought support for new international penalties out of frustration at Sudan's refusal to end the bloodshed in Darfur.
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A U.N. Security Council vote on whether to threaten sanctions against Sudan hinged on China and other opponents who fear that the specter of punishment could ruin efforts to end a crisis that has killed more than 50,000 and spawned 1.2 million refugees.
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Sudanese troops and helicopter gunships launched another offensive against rebels in the Darfur region yesterday, breaking a deadline for fighting to end.
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UNITED NATIONS - A resolution approved Saturday by the UN Security Council says Sudan could face sanctions unless the country acts quickly to stop the deadly violence in Darfur by Arab militias.
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In announcing new U.S. sanctions on Sudan yesterday, President Bush made clear his frustration with the inability of his administration and the United Nations to halt the violence in Darfur, which he has described as ongoing "genocide."
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FIGHTING raged on in the western Sudanese region of Darfur today, with an African Union helicopter fired on despite promises by both the Government and rebels to respect a ceasefire, an AU spokesman said.
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Sudanese officials said Tuesday they were investigating a shooting attack on a vehicle carrying at least one diplomat in the capital.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted Wednesday he was prepared to slap further sanctions on the Sudanese government if it did not stop the bloodshed in Darfur.
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Sudanese government forces resumed air strikes in Darfur on Monday with an attack on a town that killed more than a dozen civilians, African Union peacekeepers and rebels said.
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The Sudanese Government has launched an offensive in the western region of Darfur and appears to be preparing further military action despite promises to respect a truce, the commander of the African Union (AU) observer force said.
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Sudan&#39;s government kept up attacks on rebels in Darfur on Saturday, defying a deadline set by African Union mediators for an end to active hostilities, AU officials said.
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AFULL ARSENAL of diplomatic tricks has been tried on behalf of Darfur, the western province of Sudan where the government is orchestrating genocide.
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The United States plans to announce tough new sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday before working out a resolution in the United Nations in an intensified effort to end the bloodshed in Darfur.