Africa Union 'will quit Darfur'
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The African Union reaffirms it will pull out of Darfur, after Sudan rejected  UN plans to take control of the mission.
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The African Union says Sudan&#39;s government is starting to withdraw troops from Darfur, heeding an AU demand to end fighting by Saturday.
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KHARTOUM -- The UN secretary general warned yesterday that Sudan would bear full responsibility for the worsening humanitarian crisis in Darfur if African Union peacekeepers pull out by month's end because of the government's refusal to allow a UN-led force to take over. The cash-starved and understaffed African Union force, whose mandate ends Sept. 30, has been unable to halt ...
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Sudan has pledged to halt military operations in Darfur, a United Nations spokeswoman said yesterday, but African Union officials said the government had kept up attacks on rebels in the region.
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EL-FASHER, Sudan  - Darfur's two main rebel groups will not attend U.N.-African Union mediated peace talks in Libya, their leaders said on Friday, dashing any chance of an immediate peace deal to end 4-1/2 years of war in western Sudan.
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Khartoum has asked African Union peacekeepers to leave Darfur by the end of the month in a new act of defiance, as its forces engaged in renewed fighting that threatened to plunge the battered region into fresh chaos.
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KHARTOUM -- Sudan yesterday asked African Union forces monitoring a shaky truce in its violent Darfur region to leave the country by Sept. 30, as Khartoum launched a new offensive threatening a return to full-blown war.
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Sudanese troops launched air strikes  against a Darfur village, contrary to reports Khartoum was  withdrawing its forces from the region to meet an African Union  cease-fire deadline, an AU spokesman said on Sunday.
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A deal to end the devastating conflict in Sudan's western region of Darfur could be signed by the end of the year, when Khartoum and southern rebels are due to formally end a separate 21-year conflict, the chairman of the African Union said.
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Sudan has agreed to the deployment, mandate and structure of a combined United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force for its troubled Darfur region, a senior AU official said on Tuesday.
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Sudan rejected an African Union (AU) demand that it pull back its forces from positions seized during its latest two-week-old offensive against rebels in the Darfur region, pushing peace talks to the brink of collapse.
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The African Union announced on   Wednesday it would extend the stay of its underfinanced force   in Sudan's Darfur region until the end of the year, heading off   an immediate worsening of the crisis.
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The African Union agrees to strenghten its force in Sudan's Darfur region from under 400 to more than 3,000.
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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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An African summit meeting has concluded with a joint statement rejecting any &quot;foreign intervention&quot; in the crisis-torn Sudanese region of Darfur.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The African Union announced yesterday it would extend the stay of its underfinanced force in Sudan's Darfur region until the end of the year, heading off an immediate worsening of the crisis.
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EL-FASHER, Sudan  - A joint United Nations-African Union (AU) force took charge of peacekeeping in Darfur on Monday, seeking to end almost five years of fighting in the western Sudanese region.