Nigeria plans mission to Darfur as Sudan pledges to restore peace
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Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo called for lawmakers to approve the deployment of up to 1,500 peacekeeping troops to Sudan's war-torn province of Darfur, as Khartoum pledged to restore order there.
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U.S. military aircraft flew 47 Nigerian troops to Darfur on Thursday, the first deployment of an expanded African Union mission that is expected to total 3,500 in the troubled Sudanese region.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon will seek to jumpstart the Darfur peace process during a week-long tour of Sudan, Chad and Libya beginning Monday, ahead of a joint UN-African Union peacekeeping operation in the strife-torn Sudanese region.
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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo vowed on Saturday the African Union would not give up efforts to bring peace to Sudan's western Darfur region, despite cease-fire violations and months of failed talks.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday he aimed to lay the foundations of lasting peace in violence-racked Darfur during a tour he will make next week of Sudan, Chad and Libya.
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The second round of talks aimed at finding a solution to the Darfur crisis in western Sudan are to resume in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Monday.
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ABUJA  - Nigeria will begin sending troops to join a newly expanded African truce-monitoring force in the war torn Sudanese region of Darfur on Thursday, the country&#39;s top military spokesman said.
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EL-FASHER, Sudan  - Nigerian President Olusegun  Obasanjo vowed on Saturday the African Union would not give up  efforts to bring peace to Sudan's western Darfur region,  despite cease-fire violations and months of failed talks.
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A new joint African Union-United Nations force was poised to take over peacekeeping in Darfur on Monday from an AU mission which has struggled to stem nearly five years of violence in the western Sudanese region.
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The African Union plans to send more   troops into Sudan to reinforce its extended Darfur peacekeeping   mission, an AU spokesman said on Sunday.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad promised on Friday to back United Nations moves to end the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region by allowing international peacekeepers on its own soil, and even offered to host preliminary peace talks.
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CAIRO   Rebels from Sudan&#39;s Darfur region will go to peace talks in Nigeria demanding that militias accused of atrocities be disarmed and those responsible for committing crimes against civilians be tried, a spokesman said Thursday.
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An elite contingent of 50 Nigerian soldiers left Nigeria on Thursday for Darfur, the first stage in the deployment of 3,000 extra African Union (AU) troops to monitor a shaky cease-fire in the western Sudanese region.
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ABUJA - African Union mediators sent a mission to Chad on Saturday to seek to persuade nervous Sudanese rebel leaders to attend peace talks on the Darfur crisis in the Nigerian capital Abuja.
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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo intervened personally on Monday to prevent the collapse of peace talks aimed at ending the conflict in Sudan&#39;s Darfur province as Khartoum and the two rebel movements stuck doggedly to conflicting positions.
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A UN mission goes to Darfur to see if Sudan's government is  keeping promises to improve security.
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An African Union force in Sudanâs western Darfur region could help disarm insurgents and pro-government militias accused of killing civilians, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said before the start of AU-sponsored peace talks today between the