Urgent push on Africa&#39;s oldest civil war
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For more than 20 years, it&#39;s been one of the world&#39;s forgotten wars. Some 2 million people have died, yet it&#39;s received relatively scant global attention.
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Warning that Darfur is descending into anarchy, the top U.N. envoy to Sudan urged the Security Council Thursday to quickly deploy African troops to deter violence and speed up peace talks to prevent warlords from taking control of the vast western region.
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On the eve of a Security Council session in Kenya to galvanize talks to end the long-running civil conflict in southern Sudan, the top United Nations envoy for Africa&#39;s largest country, Jan Pronk, has discussed the world body&#39;s role with rebel leader John
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Sudan's government and southern rebel negotiators raced against the clock to agree on the final chapters of a peace deal on Friday and clear the way for a comprehensive pact to end Africa's longest-running civil war.
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The Sudanese government and rebel leaders need to be pushed to find a solution to the bloody conflict in Darfur, African foreign ministers said on Sunday ahead of a summit on the crisis.
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LIBREVILLE, Gabon  - Three of Africa's big crises  -- strife in Ivory Coast, fighting in Congo and the  humanitarian emergency in Sudan's Darfur -- provide a daunting  agenda for an African Union summit that began Monday in Gabon.
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A Dec. 31 deadline is set for an accord to end the region&#39;s 21-year civil war. By EVELYN LEOPOLD. NAIROBI, KENYA - Staking its prestige on Sudan&#39;s troubled peace process, the UN Security Council met away from
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The violence in Guinea could spill over into a bloody civil war, a think tank warns, as talks start to end the crisis.
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The Sudanese government and rebel leaders need to be pushed to find a solution to the bloody conflict in Darfur, African foreign ministers said Sunday ahead of a summit on the crisis.
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Abuja - African mediators were striving on Monday to persuade Sudan&#39;s government and its rebel foes to agree on a plan to alleviate the suffering of Darfur&#39;s beleaguered civilians and head off the risk of tougher United Nations action.
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South Africa&#39;s president, Thabo Mbeki, arrived in Ivory Coast yesterday to launch an African Union effort to resolve the crisis, as violence continued for the fourth day.
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CAPETOWN, South Africa -- After two years of fragile peace, one of Africa's most volatile regions -- the border area of Rwanda and Congo -- has been pushed back to the brink of war, as Rwandan soldiers reportedly staged raids in eastern Congo and Congolese militias clashed with each other.
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While most of the country&#39;s attention has been focused on Iraq, a human-rights crisis has been unfolding in north Africa. In Darfur, Sudan, more than 50,000 people have been killed and 1.2 million displaced
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&quot;Unless the Security Council backs up its earlier ultimatums with strong action, ethnic cleansing in Darfur will be consolidated.
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Â· Record deployment of paratroopersÂ· Country may be sliding to civil war
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Neither early elections nor a plebiscite are particularly desirable. However either of them would be preferable to a civil war, which is where the country could be headed, thanks to the growing extremism of
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UN Security Council ambassadors are heading to Africa in a bid to stop conflicts in Darfur and elsewhere in Sudan. They hope pressing for the end of a 21-year old civil war between Sudan and southern rebels