Sudan welcomes Darfur extension
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Sudanese officials welcome the African Union's decision to extend its Darfur mandate until the end of the year.
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Sudan is expected to agree to an   extended African Union peacekeeping mandate in Darfur when   African leaders meet in New York this week, a presidential   adviser was quoted as saying Monday.
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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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Sudan&#39;s government says it will accept a larger African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur as long as the troops are used to contain and demobilize rebel forces.
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Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir welcomes U.N. support for an African Union force monitoring a widely ignored truce in Sudan's violent Darfur region, state media reported on Thursday.
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Canadian and European Union leaders welcomed the African Union's decision to increase seven-fold its monitoring force in Sudan's Darfur region, and pledged to support the effort.
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Sudan is optimistic that the U.N. Security Council will recognize its achievements in improving the humanitarian and security situation in troubled Darfur, Sudan's foreign minister said Thursday.
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Sudan has agreed to a joint withdrawal of government and rebel forces in Darfur and will accept a big increase in international cease-fire monitors, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday after talks with the country's president.
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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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Sudan has signed an agreement to ensure the voluntary return of more than one million people displaced by fighting in the Darfur region and said it was giving Darfuris more say in local government.
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The African Union (AU) agreed to extend the mandate of its peacekeepers in Sudan's troubled Darfur region for three months until December 31 after receiving promises of financial and logistical support from the United Nations and Arab states.
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Sudan has accepted a United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force of up to 23,000 troops and police for Darfur but some U.N. diplomats fear conditions may be attached.
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UN mission officials in Sudan said Friday they hope an expanded African force will be on the ground in Darfur by the end of October, after Sudan&#39;s foreign minister agreed to allow in 3,500 outside troops.
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Sudan has urged the African Union to extend the mandate of its truce monitors in Darfur, ahead of a crucial vote by the African body and amid mounting pressure on Khartoum to accept UN forces.
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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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The African Union has approved plans for a big increase in its military intervention force in the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur.
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The hope for peace in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region brightened on Tuesday evening as the parties in the 21-month-old crisis signed humanitarian and security protocols together, three weeks into the African Union- sponsored