U.N. Says Darfur Foes Back Vaccine Truce
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The United Nations said Friday that Sudan's government and rebels have have responded positively to a cease-fire plea in the western Darfur region to allow a polio vaccination campaign, but Sudan warned of imminent guerrilla attacks.
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Sudan admitted on Thursday that its  troops had opened fire on a joint U.N./African Union  peacekeeping convoy in Darfur, contradicting an earlier denial  by its ambassador to the United Nations.
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The U.N. Security Council on Thursday passed a resolution to form a U.N. peacekeeping force for Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur, provided the African nation reverses its opposition.
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A humanitarian crisis in Sudan's Darfur  region, once called the world's worst, appears to have eased,  with the death toll from disease dropping, a senior World  Health Organization (WHO) official said Tuesday.
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TRIPOLI, Libya &#151; After a weeklong trip to three African countries, the U.N. secretary-general said Sunday he was encouraged by "credible progress" toward settling one of the continent's bloodiest conflicts in Sudan's Darfur region.
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United Nations mediators  announced a ceasefire on Thursday between Democratic Republic  of Congo&#39;s army and the forces of a renegade general whose  advance towards an eastern town forced thousands of refugees to  flee.
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NAIROBI  - UN ambassadors agreed here unanimously on the text of a resolution aimed at restoring peace to war-ravaged Sudan, as the country&#39;s main foes promised to conclude talks on their 21-year-old conflict by the end of the year.
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The United Nations sent a tough message to delegates at peace talks on the civil war in Sudan's western province of Darfur, warning them that the international community would not tolerate mounting ceasefire violations and attacks on civilians.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad   reaffirmed his support for a U.N. resolution backing the   ceasefire that ended a 34-day war in Lebanon, U.N.   Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Sunday.
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One of the biggest Darfur rebel factions said on Thursday it would respect a ceasefire and was ready to resume peace talks with Sudan's government to try to halt violence in the region that has killed some 200,000 people.
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The United Nations is optimistic Sudan will stick to an accord on a U.N.-African Union force for troubled Darfur, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Wednesday, but some diplomats feared Khartoum had set conditions.
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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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KHARTOUM/NAIROBI, Aug 18,2004 (dpa) -- The current number of ceasefire observers in Sudan&#39;s war-ravaged Darfur region is insufficient, the UN envoy to Sudan, Jan Pronk, said in an interview published Wednesday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and members of the U.N. Security Council took turns Monday demanding swift intervention to ease the mounting humanitarian crisis in Darfur, but the Sudanese government again resisted a U.N. peacekeeping force.
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One of the biggest Darfur rebel  factions said on Thursday it would respect a ceasefire and was  ready to resume peace talks with the government to try to halt  violence in the region that has killed some 200,000 people.
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The United Nations andthe United States on Wednesday strongly condemned the recent violation of a cease-fire by the rebels in Sudan&#39;s troubled region of Darfur.
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Sudanese government officials and southern rebels signed a permanent cease-fire agreement Friday and endorsed a detailed plan to end a 21-year civil war blamed for 2 million deaths.