Sudan: African Union must accept deal
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Sudan gave African Union troops a one-week ultimatum Monday to accept a deal blocking a proposed U.N. peacekeeping force in Darfur or else leave the war-torn region, a step that would likely worsen the world's worst humanitarian disaster.
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President Thabo Mbeki will today join several African leaders in Nairobi, Kenya to witness the final signing of a peace accord between the government of Sudan and the Sudan People&#39;s Liberation Movement.
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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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The U.N. peacekeeping chief on Wednesday called Sudan's acceptance of a joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force for Darfur "a significant step forward," although he cautioned "it's not the end of the road."
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The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union, Mr. Alpha Omar Konare, welcomes the signing in Abuja on 9 November 20004 by the Government of the Sudan (GoS), the JEM and the SLM/A, of the Protocols on the Improvement of the Humanitarian Situation
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Sudan has reluctantly accepted a new United Nations&#39; deal that calls for an end to government-backed attacks on Black civilians in the western region of Darfur.
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Arab League secretary general Amr Mussa said he hoped the African Union would endorse the deployment of Arab troops in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan in the event of an expansion of the AU force there.
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Sudanese President Omar Hassan  al-Bashir welcomes U.N. support for an African Union force  monitoring a widely ignored truce in Sudan's violent Darfur  region, state media reported on Thursday.
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Sudan has urged the UN Security Council to support the African Unionâs peace efforts in resolving the crisis in its western Darfur region.
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Sudan bowed to mounting pressure over the crisis in Darfur and agreed to allow African Union forces to monitor the activities of its police in camps for displaced persons in the region.
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Sudan agrees to a revised plan for a joint UN-African Union peace force to be sent to Darfur, AU sources say.
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Sudan and the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force have agreed the terms under which the 26,000-strong force will deploy in western Darfur, officials said on Monday, removing a major barrier to its operations.
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Sudan will come under pressure at a tripartite meeting in Addis Ababa next week to allow the deployment of a joint African Union-UN force in Darfur, a senior UN official said Wednesday.
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ABUJA, Nov 1  -- African Union mediators pressed Sudan&#39;s government and Darfur rebel leaders to agree on a joint position on security in the strife-torn western region, during talks aimed at reaching an overall deal to end the 20-month civil war.
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The African Union (AU) said Wednesday at the end of the third day of peace talks on Sudan&#39;s Darfur in Abuja, capital of Nigeria, that it would finalize a protocol on security
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Sudan is ready to attend Darfur peace talks under joint U.N.-African Union mediation to resolve a conflict which has driven 2.5 million people from their homes, the country's foreign minister said on Monday.
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Sudan has agreed to allow 3,500 African Union troops into war-ravaged western Darfur as a means of building confidence among civilians, mostly blacks, who, UN officials