African Union to Send Troops in Bid to Curb Sudan Violence
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Nigeria&#39;s president, Olusegun Obasanjo, said Thursday that the African Union, of which he is the chairman, had decided to send thousands of troops and monitors to help
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A joint United Nations-African  Union (AU) force took charge of peacekeeping in Darfur on  Monday, seeking to end almost five years of fighting in the  western Sudanese region.
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Nigerian troops are due to fly from the Nigerian capital, Abuja, to the western Sudanese region of Darfur to bolster an African Union protection force.
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The European Union is to draw up plans for a force to go to countries neighbouring Sudan's Darfur region.
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KHARTOUM : Sudan bowed to mounting pressure over the crisis in Darfur and agreed to allow African Union forces to monitor the activities of its police in camps for displaced persons in the region.
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LIBREVILLE, Gabon  - African leaders said on  Monday they were determined to resolve conflicts in Ivory  Coast, Congo and Sudan's Darfur region to stop the violence  affecting other countries, but called for international  support.
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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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The United States and the European Union stepped up calls on Friday for Sudan to let international troops in to support African Union forces in Darfur amid growing talk of sanctions on Khartoum.
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UNITED NATIONS: The African Union will determine in early October whether it can mobilise a force of 3000 to 5000 to help stop atrocities in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said today.
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Sudan said on Sunday the African Union would need Khartoum&#39;s agreement and a new resolution before increasing the number of forces protecting monitors of a shaky ceasefire in the troubled Darfur region.
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The African Union (AU) has decided to expand the number of African mission in Sudan&#39;s Darfur to assist more effectively in the restoration of peace and security in the region, said an AU communique here on Thursday.
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Astronomical quantities of arms and ammunition have poured into Sudan&#39;s Darfur region in the last two weeks and the government is poised for a major military offensive, the African Union said on Friday.
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UN and African Union officials will travel to Darfur this week to try to convince key rebel leaders to join peace talks aimed at resolving the crisis in the Sudanese province, the AU said Monday.
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The African Union&#39;s peace and security council Wednesday formally agreed to send as many as 3,200 African peacekeepers to the Darfur region of Sudan to help halt violence
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UNITED NATIONS - The African Union communicated to the UN Thursday its decision to send an expanded force of troops and police with a broad mandate to protect aid workers, monitors and civilians in Sudanâs strife-torn Darfur region.
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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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African Union mediators sent a mission to Chad to seek to persuade nervous Sudanese rebel leaders to attend peace talks on the Darfur crisis in the Nigerian capital Abuja.