Annan urges big increase in troops for Darfur
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The UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, called for a substantial and speedy expansion of the international forces in Darfur after reporting that the Sudanese government had failed to stop attacks on civilians.
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UN chief  Kofi Annan asks the Security Council to adopt a US draft resolution on Sudan's Darfur region.
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A UN envoy welcomes a move to deploy  African troops to Sudan's Darfur region, but says more are needed.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban  Ki-moon on Wednesday called Sudan&#39;s agreement on a large force  for Darfur &quot;a milestone,&quot; but U.N. envoys acknowledged  challenges on command structures and finding enough troops.
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DARFUR is on the brink of chaos as violence increases, order collapses and the number of desperate people in need of humanitarian aid reaches nearly 2.3 million, Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, has warned in his darkest assessment yet of
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The U.N. Security Council called  on Wednesday for more funds for a hard-pressed African Union  peacekeeping force in Somalia and asked the U.N.  secretary-general to keep planning for a U.N. force there.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the 15-member U.N. Security Council on Monday to move quickly in authorizing up to 26,000 troops and police in Darfur, an apparent reference to a dispute among members.
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The United Nations called on Wednesday for a quick and "substantially" larger international monitoring force in Sudan's Darfur region, saying Khartoum had failed to stop attacks against civilians by Arab militia.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan today called on the Security Council to issue âthe strongest warningâ to the forces fighting in Sudan to bring an end to the civil wars there.
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Secretary General Kofi Annan urged the Security Council today to take swift action in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region where he said violence was on the rise, the number of displaced
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United Nations chief Kofi Annan on Tuesday demanded that the world body's human rights watchdog, meeting in special session on Sudan's Darfur, send a clear message that the "nightmare" of violence had to stop.
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The United Nations should  immediately beef up the African Union force in Darfur with  communications, transport and other help in preparation for its  own operation, the head of U.N. peacekeeping said on Tuesday.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says security in Sudan's Darfur region is rapidly deteriorating, and violence could intensify.
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PARIS -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged swift international action Monday toward speeding up deployment of troops in Darfur, as key world players met to try to consolidate efforts and resources for the ravaged Sudanese region.
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BRUSSELS -- The United Nations' special envoy for Sudan appealed yesterday for European logistical help in urgently deploying thousands of African peacekeepers to Darfur, where months of conflict has killed more than 50,000 people and uprooted a million more.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon has recommended sending up to 11,000 peacekeepers to Chad and the Central African Republic to protect civilians caught in the spillover from Sudan's Darfur conflict.
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Kofi Annan, United Nations secretary-general, has urged the Security Council to step up its efforts to end the conflict in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region, where growing violence