UN and AU agree on joint Darfur force
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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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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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The African Union agreed Wednesday to boost the number of peacekeepers in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region and send a contingent of civilian police to monitor efforts to end violence that has driven more than 1.5 million people from their homes.
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The U.N. and African Union chief executives on Wednesday resolved a dispute over command of a proposed joint military force to help end bloodshed in Darfur, but the deal still must be approved by their organizations' security councils and Sudan's government.
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The UN Security Council on Wednesday scrutinized Sudan&#39;s acceptance of a joint African Union-UN force to end bloodshed in Darfur, seeking assurances that Khartoum will not set unacceptable conditions on the deployment.
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Khartoum agrees to allow more African Union troops and monitors in Darfur.
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The UN Security Council approves a peace force for Sudan's Darfur region - but only if Khartoum agrees.
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Sudan backed a plan to keep African Union (AU) peacekeepers in Darfur amid a flurry of intense diplomatic activity here to end the bloodshed in the Sudanese western region.
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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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The UN special envoy to Sudan has welcomed an African Union announcement that it will begin deploying armed peacekeepers to Darfur on Sunday.
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The U.N. Security Council on Thursday passed a resolution to form a U.N. peacekeeping force for Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur, provided the African nation reverses its opposition.
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A joint African-United Nations force took over peacekeeping duties in Darfur on Monday, a long-awaited change that is intended to be the strongest effort yet to solve the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
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Sudan has agreed to accept an expanded African Union force in its western Darfur region to help protect civilians against marauding pro-government militia.
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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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UNITED NATIONS, June 2 -- The African Union has objected to a proposed joint A.U.-U.N. peacekeeping force in Sudan's troubled Darfur region because the United Nations would be in command, U.N. diplomats said.
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Ethiopia and Egypt will each send  850 troops early in the new year to serve with a joint United  Nations-African Union force in Sudan's Darfur region, an AU  official told Reuters on Monday.
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Sudan has accepted a United  Nations-African Union peacekeeping force of up to 23,000 troops  and police for Darfur but some U.N. diplomats fear conditions  may be attached.