Fragile progress in Sudan requires international backing
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As we work to provide assistance in Sudan&#39;s remote Darfur region, we are confronted on a daily basis by the horrible toll of a conflict that has taken tens of thousands of lives and has displaced more than a million people.
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The United Nations and the African Union agreed Thursday on a highly mobile, robust joint force to help protect civilians and restore security to the Darfur region &#151; but Sudan still holds the key to its deployment.
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Sanctions aimed at pressuring Sudan to take action in Darfur are likely to have limited effects on the countryâs oil production and exports.
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The Darfur region of Sudan, located in the western portion of the country along its border with Chad, is poor and remote, even by African standards.
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Sudan must do a lot more to make its  Darfur region safer, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on  Tuesday, adding that Khartoum had failed to improve security  since the United States last week accused it of committing  genocide there.
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Sudan must do a lot more to make its Darfur region safer, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday, adding that Khartoum had failed to improve security since the United States last week accused it of committing genocide there.
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Sudan wants the international community to meet its obligations to help alleviate suffering in Darfur, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail
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Darfur, the troubled western Sudan region, was barely a speck on the international horizon in October 2003 when Andrew Natsios, head of the U.S. foreign aid agency, traveled there to learn more about the area's developing humanitarian crisis.
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A renewed US push to end the tragedy in Sudan's Darfur region shows little promise of quick success, with Washington unwilling to put new teeth into its demand that the Khartoum government accept an aggressive UN peacekeeping force to halt the killing.
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UNITED NATIONS  - The international community is &quot;getting nowhere&quot; with the crisis in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region, the US ambassador to the United Nations, John Danforth, said.
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The United States has circulated a draft UN resolution that would back a beefed-up monitoring force for Sudan&#39;s conflict-wracked Darfur region and threaten punitive action against the country&#39;s oil exports if the government does not act quickly to stop
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The Bush administration has begun quietly urging Arab countries to help overcome Sudan's resistance to deploying 20,000 U.N. peacekeepers and police to the troubled Darfur region, the new U.S. special envoy for Sudan said Wednesday
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In a bold move, the United States is taking the United Nations Security Council on the road this week to help end the violence and terrible suffering in Sudan.
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Representatives of the Sudanese government and the southern rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) urged the world community to provide 300 million dollars (244 million euros) in aid to cover emergency needs.
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GENEVA, Oct 15  -- A senior World Health Organisation (WHO) official sharply criticised the shortfall in international aid for Sudan&#39;s strife-torn region of Darfur, despite the amount of political and media attention devoted to the crisis.
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Conflict seems to have become a way of life for Sudan that has struggled to find peace and stability since its independence in 1956.
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Khartoum and Washington agree on the need to take concrete measures to improve the volatile security situation in Darfur as well as in southern Sudan, US envoy Andrew Natsios said.