Darfur haunts AU as it aspires to union government
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African leaders meet this weekend to debate a grand plan for a continental government, but they face pleas for urgent action now to halt conflicts in Darfur and Somalia and tackle enduring poverty.
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African Union envoy Salim  Ahmed Salim, seeking support from west Sudan&#39;s Darfuris for a  ceasefire and peace talks, had a stormy reception when he met  community and tribal leaders on Sunday.
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A beefed-up joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur is set to take over from the current under-manned AU force on Monday in a bid to end years of bloodshed.
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ABUJA, Sept 13  - Slow-moving African Union-brokered peace talks for Sudan&#39;s Darfur region have been complicated by last week&#39;s declaration by the United States that Khartoum and allied militia are committing genocide there.
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DAKAR, 26 Aug 2004 (IRIN) - Hit by power cuts and administrative hitches, the Darfur peace talks in the Nigerian capital Abuja made slow progress on Thursday, a spokesman for the African Union (AU) which is sponsoring the negotiations 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 adviser said on Monday.
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After days of footdragging, the African Union (AU)-sponsored peace talks aimed at ending a 20-month-old crisis in Sudan&#39;s Darfur began to discuss a political settlement
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The African Union (AU) recommended a  four-day postponement of peace talks over Sudan's Darfur region  on Thursday after a transport mix-up left delegates stranded  across the continent.
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SUDAN rejected an African Union (AU) demand today 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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Sudan's government said on Thursday it hoped to reach a deal in talks resuming Friday with rebels in Darfur, which the United Nations says is descending into chaos.
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Astronomical 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.
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UNITED NATIONS -- A U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force faced the first major challenge to its authority in Darfur, Sudan, this week, enduring more than 10 minutes of hostile fire from Sudanese forces without responding with a single shot.
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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.
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KHARTOUM -- Sudan yesterday asked African Union forces monitoring a shaky truce in Darfur to leave the country by Sept. 30, as the government launched a new offensive that threatens a return to full-blown war. Khartoum last week rejected a UN Security Council resolution to deploy peacekeeping troops to replace the cash-strapped and ill-equipped AU force, and instead has moved ...
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The Christian Science Monitor - The people of Darfur won't be totally left to their own devices amid marauding militias and the Sudanese government's bombing campaign, now that the mandate of the African Union force - originally set to expire next week - has been extended through the end of the year.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - African Union (AU) monitors of  a shaky cease-fire in Sudan's remote Darfur region should have  an expanded mandate but stop short of peacekeeping, a United  Nations official in Sudan said Wednesday.
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Astronomical quantities of arms and  ammunition have poured into Sudan's Darfur region in the last  two weeks and the government is poised for a major military  offensive, the African Union said on Friday.