Chad won't allow U.N. advance mission
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The government of Chad has refused to allow the United Nations to send an advance mission to prepare for the possible deployment of U.N. peacekeepers, a setback to plans to help thousands of civilians caught in the spillover of the Darfur conflict in neighboring Sudan.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban  Ki-moon called on Sunday for an end to fighting in Chad, where  rebels have besieged the presidential palace, and the Security  Council met to address the situation.
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Sudan on Monday rebuffed a French initiative to host a meeting of key nations to find a solution to Sudan's war-torn Darfur region on June 25, saying the timing was not right.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and members of the U.N. Security Council took turns Monday demanding swift intervention to ease the mounting humanitarian crisis in Darfur, but the Sudanese government again resisted a U.N. peacekeeping force.
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The main Sudanese opposition leader says the government is refusing to allow U.N. peacekeepers in Darfur because it knows the U.N. troops would help hunt down war crimes suspects for the International Criminal Court.
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The UN Human Rights Council postponed a vote on whether to dispatch a fact-finding mission to Darfur and remained mired in debate, despite cries of alarm from senior UN officials about the situation in the strife-torn region of Sudan.
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Sudan has suspended the work of a U.N.  mission in its violent Darfur region after accusing the world  body of transporting a rebel leader who opposes a recent peace  deal, a Sudanese official said on Sunday.
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The U.N. Security Council on  Thursday voted to create a United Nations peacekeeping force in  Sudan's Darfur region to avert a new humanitarian disaster, but  the Khartoum government rejected the resolution as "illegal."
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The Sudanese Government has rejected a United Nations deadline to disarm militia groups in the troubled Darfur region. The UN Security Council has ordered Sudan to rein in the militias within the next week.
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Security Council members were receptive on Tuesday to a U.N. force for Chad and the Central African Republic but must deal first with Chad's president, who wants police and not soldiers.
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Sudan said Monday that the African Union has no right to transfer its peacekeeping mission in Darfur to the United Nations and must withdraw its troops from the western region by month's end.
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Sudan's U.N. ambassador said on Wednesday an attack on a clearly marked U.N./African Union supply convoy in Sudan's Darfur region this week was carried out by Chadian-backed rebels, not Sudanese soldiers.
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A planned UN human rights mission to the strife-torn region of Darfur has said that it would carry on its work outside Sudan after being denied visas to enter the country.
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Troops from Chad entered Sudan's Darfur region in pursuit of Chadian rebels Friday as the U.N. and humanitarian aid groups prepared to pull some workers out of a key border town, fearing an imminent battle.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad will back United Nations moves to end the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region by allowing international peacekeepers on its own soil and supporting peace talks, President Idriss Deby said on Friday.
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Sudan&#39;s foreign minister says the government will not accept UN peacekeepers in the Darfur region, the BBC reports. About 50,000 people have been killed in the area in the
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Tribal clashes, banditry and troop movements are blocking crucial deliveries of food aid in North Darfur state despite recent peace agreements, African Union and United Nations officials said Sunday.