France hosts meeting to provide help for Darfur
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France hosts a meeting of senior officials from more than a dozen countries on Monday aimed at providing funds and other support for international efforts to stabilize Sudan's violent Darfur region.
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France will provide air support to  humanitarian organizations supplying food and medicine to  refugee camps in eastern Chad, a defense ministry spokesman  said on Friday.
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The United Nations and the African Union kicked off a high-level meeting on Darfur on Friday in hopes of speeding up deployment of a peacekeeping force and expanding humanitarian aid.
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International mediators in the Darfur crisis met in Libya on Sunday to discuss progress in ending the conflict after a self-imposed late-August deadline for peace talks slipped.
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TRIPOLI: Leaders from Sudan and four neighboring states were meeting in the Libyan capital Sunday to push for an end to the conflict in Darfur that has killed tens of thousands
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An Africa-France summit seen as President Jacques Chirac's goodbye to Africa is drawing to a close after a shaky agreement was signed to prevent violence in Darfur from spreading.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Paris Sunday to take part in an international conference on Darfur, hoping to secure &quot;concrete&quot; results to end violence that Washington has termed &quot;genocide.&quot;
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Sudan on Monday rebuffed a French initiative to host a meeting of key nations to find a solution to Sudan's war-torn Darfur region on June 25, saying the timing was not right.
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French officials sought on Wednesday to ease tensions with Chad after President Nicolas Sarkozy offended local sensibilities by promising to bring home a group of Europeans accused of abducting 103 African children.
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The warning was dire: "The children will be dead in a few months," the French charity said of orphans in Darfur. It asked people to help by paying thousands of dollars to fly them out of the region's turmoil.
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ABUJA, Nigeria -- Sudanese government and rebels delegates met today for talks to resolve the crisis in western Darfur a week before a UN deadline expires for the government to disarm the mostly Arab pro-government militias terrorizing the region.
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An international meeting on Darfur ended on Monday with promises to support peace-keeping efforts and a political process to stop the violence in western Sudan but with few concrete steps.
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Sudanese government envoys and the leaders of two rebel groups met here with African Union leaders to try to agree an agenda for talks to resolve the 18-month conflict in Darfur.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is to meet Sudanese government leaders to assess the humanitarian crisis.
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Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir attends a working session at the 24th Africa-France summit in Cannes, southern France.Comment
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A summit intended to strengthen  ties between Africa and former colonial power France opened on  Thursday but all eyes will be on a subject not on the agenda --  Sudan's battered Darfur province.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday they were prepared to make a joint visit to Darfur to push for peace in the crisis-stricken Sudanese region.