Chad violence slows peacekeeping mission
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The European Union said Friday it had postponed the deployment of a peacekeeping force to protect Darfur refugees because of an upsurge of rebel activity in neighboring Chad.
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Clashes between Sudanese army and rebel forces in Darfur are stopping aid agencies assessing the needs of some of the more than one million displaced people there, the United Nations says.
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A new joint African Union-United Nations force took over peacekeeping in Darfur on Monday from an AU mission which has struggled to stem nearly five years of brutal conflict in the western Sudanese region.
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Gunmen have killed two African Union peacekeepers and critically wounded a third in Sudan's western Darfur region, the AU said Wednesday.
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Violence in Chad could turn into a genocide, the UN says, as the country signs a peace pact with its neighbours.
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A small number of U.S. troops have been working with the African Union military observer mission in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, the State Department said Wednesday, highlighting the U.S. role in peace efforts.
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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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Pervasive violence in Darfur and eastern Chad has compromised the U.N. refugee agency's ability to work in the region, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said on Friday.
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U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday unacceptable delays were preventing help reaching millions of victims of Darfur's bloodshed, but negotiations on deploying U.N. peacekeepers were making only slow progress.
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ABECHE, Chad -- With gunfire sounding in the distance, workers took stock yesterday of looted UN warehouses and government offices in this town in eastern Chad, the latest site of unrest that started in Sudan's Darfur region and has spread across a swath of Africa.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recommended on Tuesday peacekeeping operations of up to 11,000 personnel for Chad and the Central African Republic to stanch the spillover from the Darfur conflict in Sudan.
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Chad will not allow the UN to send an advance mission to the country to prepare for deployment of peacekeepers.
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Chad says it will not accept a UN peacekeeping force on its eastern border  - only one made up of police officers.
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The European Union postponed the deployment of advance units of a peacekeeping force for protecting refugees from Darfur because of an upsurge of rebel activity in neighboring Chad, where France was reinforcing its troops on the ground.
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International efforts to stop  violence in Sudan's Darfur region have failed, U.S. Ambassador  John Danforth said on Tuesday, and he called for the African  Union to field more forces to halt atrocities there.
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The European force resumes its deployment in Chad following fierce clashes in the capital.
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Security Council members were receptive on Tuesday to a U.N. force for Chad and the Central African Republic but must deal first with Chad's president, who wants police and not soldiers.