Sudan to Cut Paramilitary Forces in Darfur
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In a goodwill gesture on the eve of peace talks, Sudan said Sunday it would reduce paramilitary forces in Darfur by 30 percent to try to ease tensions in the western region, where an 18-month conflict has killed an estimated 30,000 people.
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The African Union transferred authority Monday to a new joint peacekeeping force with the United Nations in Darfur that the international community hopes will stem the violence in Sudan's war-torn western region
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The United Nations handed over to Sudan on Friday detailed plans for a Darfur peacekeeping force of more than 23,000 troops and police to protect civilians and use force to deter violence.
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Sudan agrees to a revised plan for a joint UN-African Union peace force to be sent to Darfur, AU sources say.
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EL FASHER, Sudan -- The African Union transferred authority Monday to a new joint peacekeeping force with the United Nations in Darfur that the international community hopes will stem the violence in Sudan's war-torn western region.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan - Sudan agrees to a joint withdrawal of government and rebel forces in Darfur and will accept a big increase in international ceasefire monitors, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday after talks with the country&#39;s president.
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Sudan said Monday that African Union peacekeepers will have to leave Darfur unless they accept a deal within a week that would effectively block a proposed U.N. force.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - The authorities pledged to halt military operations in Darfur, a United Nations spokeswoman said Sunday, but African Union officials said the government had kept up attacks on rebels in the region.
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The Sudanese government has promised to cease a military offensive in Darfur, apparently a move toward srestarting peace talks boycotted by the rebels demanding improve dsituation
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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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Sudan's ruling party has rejected a proposed Security Council resolution to transfer peacekeeping duties in conflict-wracked Darfur to a U.N. force, saying it would violate national sovereignty, official media reported Thursday.
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The Sudanese government agreed on  Wednesday to halt its military offensive in Darfur, mediators  said, raising hopes for the restart of suspended peace talks  with rebels.
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Sudan said on Saturday it would remove all its Antonov planes and would not use them at all in its troubled Darfur region, where it has been accused of using the aircraft to bomb villages.
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The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said Thursday that it is temporarily withdrawing some key international staff from strife-torn south Darfur in Sudan.
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The African Union said on Saturday that Sudan had started withdrawing troops in Darfur ahead of an evening deadline to end fighting in the troubled region.
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Sudan Sunday said it would immediately and unconditionally cease hostilities in the remote Darfur region, and asked the United Nations and African Union to request that rebel forces do the same.
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The Sudanese government asked African Union peacekeepers to leave Darfur by the end of the month and said it would continue to deploy its own troops in the western region.