Darfur peace talks to begin without key rebels
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SIRTE, Libya  - Delegations gathered in Libya on Saturday to launch talks to end 4-1/2 years of conflict in Sudan's Darfur region but the absence of key rebels cast doubt on whether negotiations could produce any meaningful deal.
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Darfur peace talks kicked off four days late in Nigeria Monday amid mounting international concerns of a resurgence of fighting in the remote Sudan region.
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African Union-sponsored peace talks between Sudan&#39;s government and rebel leaders from its war-torn Darfur region began on Monday amid disagreement over the deployment of peacekeepers.
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Rebel groups and Sudan's government are to hold talks to try to end the conflict in the Darfur region.
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The United Nations and the African Union have just seven weeks to persuade major rebel factions to attend new Darfur peace talks in Libya &#151; a tough job because a key rebel leader immediately rejected any negotiations until there is a cease-fire.
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A Darfur rebel group said on Thursday it refused to return to African Union-sponsored peace talks in the Nigerian capital Abuja and rejected the pan-African body as mediator to end the 22-month-old conflict.
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Sudan's government committed to a cease-fire in Darfur at the start of peace talks Saturday, but mediators and journalists outnumbered the few rebels who did not boycott the U.N.-sponsored negotiations, reducing hopes for an end to the fighting.
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N'DJAMEMA  - Rebel groups from Sudan's violent Darfur region on Friday suspended a meeting to forge a common position for peace talks with the government, hoping more rebels would join in the consultations, a mediator said.
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One of Darfur's main rebel factions complained on Wednesday it had not been invited to talks in Libya between Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and Darfur rebels who have rejected a shaky peace deal.
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Rebels from Sudan&#39;s Darfur region on Thursday rejected calls to disarm their fighters before a political solution to the 18-month conflict is reached and accused
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Sudanese peace talks began under a cloud  on Monday as Khartoum rejected a plan for African troops to  disarm rebels in the war-torn Darfur region.
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Negotiations stopped in Abuja yesterday over Darfur once again when the rebels refused to negotiate directly with the Sudanese government delegation until the meeting of the African Union leaders separately to agree on the agenda.
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Rebels from Sudan's Darfur region on  Thursday rejected calls to disarm or garrison their fighters  before a political solution to the conflict there has been  decided and implemented.
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Rebels from Sudan's Darfur region will go to peace talks in Nigeria demanding that militias accused of atrocities be disarmed and those responsible for committing crimes against civilians be tried, a spokesman said Thursday.
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Sudan's government and rebel groups will start talks on October 27 in Libya to push for peace in violence-torn Darfur before 26,000 peacekeepers deploy there, the United Nations and Khartoum announced on Thursday.
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Peace talks over the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur began in Nigeria Monday despite continued insurgencies and a virtual deadlock between involved parties.
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Rebels from Sudan's Darfur region  Thursday rejected calls to disarm or confine their fighters to  their bases before a political solution to the conflict is  found.