Huge boost to Darfur aid effort
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The World Food Programme is starting to airlift almost 100 more tons of food a day to Sudan's troubled Darfur region.
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International donors pledged more   than $940 million on Thursday for war-torn Lebanon's immediate   relief efforts, nearly double the target amount.
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Aid workers in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region have been airlifted to safety amid new fighting between government and rebel troops in a major town.
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Canadian and European Union leaders welcomed Thursday the African Union&#39;s decision to increase seven-fold its monitoring force in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region, and pledged to support the effort.
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STOCKHOLM -- International donors pledged more than $940 million yesterday for war-torn Lebanon's immediate relief efforts, nearly double the target amount.
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The UN sought on Tuesday a doubling of aid to Sudan to $1.5 billion as the United States called for more troops and diplomatic pressure to secure peace and alleviate a humanitarian crisis in the strife-torn country.
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A UN official calls for more aid for Sudan&#39;s Darfur region, saying that 70,000 people have died there since March and the toll is rising by 10,000 every month.
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Contractors get a boost from a major west African project.
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Large quantities of arms and ammunition have poured into Darfur in the last two weeks and the government appears to be preparing for a major military offensive, the African Union (AU) said on Friday.
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AL-FASHER, Sudan  - Sudan's minister for humanitarian affairs said Thursday his government has made "serious progress" in improving security and humanitarian relief in the troubled region of Darfur, as a UN team prepared an assessment that could decide whether the African country would be penalized.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 26 (IPS) - The European Union restored ties with Sudan Tuesday  and offered 50 million euro (65 million dollars) in aid to help  boost a peace agreement after the end of one of Africa's  longest ever civil wars.
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ABUJA, Nigeria -- Britain&#39;s Foreign Secretary Jack Straw flew to Sudan Monday, part of a stepped-up world diplomatic offensive to end the humanitarian crisis in troubled Darfur.
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More than 40 aid workers were dramatically rescued by helicopter yesterday as violence, including aerial bombardments of a town, flared across Sudan&#39;s crisis-plagued Darfur region.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Sept. 25 -- The African Union will add 4,000 troops to its Darfur peacekeeping mission, bolstering the 7,000 poorly funded and under-equipped A.U. forces currently monitoring a battered cease-fire.
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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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NAIROBI, Oct 21  -- The African Union is to increase from 465 to 3,320 the number of personnel monitoring a shaky ceasefire in Sudan&#39;s war-ravaged western Darfur region, the pan-African body said in a statement on Thursday.
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The US announces a big boost to funds to aid survivors of tsunamis that claimed more than 124,000 lives.