AU Says to Deploy Full Darfur Mission by Year End
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African forces should be fully  deployed to Sudan's troubled Darfur region by the end of the  year despite some delays in building the infrastructure to  house them, the new head of the African Union mission said on  Saturday.
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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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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 20 -- The African Union said Wednesday that it would extend the mandate of its peacekeeping force in Darfur through the end of the year, ensuring that international troops will remain in the war-torn Sudanese province for now.
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The African Union and United Nations have agreed on the first phase of transforming the cash-strapped AU peace mission in Sudan's Darfur region into a &quot;hybrid&quot; AU-UN force, officials said.
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The United States welcomed on Friday Sudanese official&#39;s announcement to accept a larger AfricanUnion (AU) mission in the western region of Darfur and urged the speedy deployment of AU troops.
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The U.N. Security Council will  recommend that the world body fund a joint African Union-U.N.  peacekeeping mission for Darfur, after receiving assurances it  would be controlled by the U.N, envoys said on Sunday.
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The United States will commit 116 million dollars to the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) in an effort to help relieve the humanitarian crisis gripping the war-torn Darfur region, the State Department said.
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Sudan will allow African Union troops   to remain in its turbulent Darfur region but only if their AU   mandate was extended beyond September 30 and not as part of a   U.N. force, a presidential advisor said on Monday.
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The Sudanese government asked African Union peacekeepers to leave Darfur by the end of the month and said it would continue to deploy its own troops in the western region.
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The African Union will add 4,000   troops to its extended Darfur peacekeeping mission, bringing   the number of police and soldiers in western Sudan to 11,000, a   spokesman for the AU said on Monday.
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EU foreign policy chief Javier  Solana said on Saturday the European Union and its member  states would contribute more than $100 million to an African  Union (AU) force in Sudan's troubled Darfur region.
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Sudan said on Monday it would allow   African troops to remain in Darfur only under African Union   (AU) control and accused Washington of attempting "regime   change" in Khartoum by trying to bring in a U.N. force.
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Sudan is expected to agree to an   extended African Union peacekeeping mandate in Darfur when   African leaders meet in New York this week, a presidential   adviser was quoted as saying Monday.
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The U.N. secretary-general warned Tuesday 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 U.N.-led force to take over.
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The structure of a joint UN-AU force for Darfur is agreed which is hoped will address Sudan's concerns.
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The planned peacekeeping force for Sudan's Darfur region will take most of 2008 to deploy fully, the UN says.
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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.