Sudanese leader challenges Darfur plan
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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has sent a letter to the U.N. secretary-general challenging a plan to send U.N. peacekeepers to Darfur &#151; a setback to international efforts to stop the region's escalating violence.
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Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has turned down a proposed U.N. role in the peace mission in Darfur, opposed a large increase of troops and asserted that the crisis there has been exaggerated.
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Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir defended his handling of the Darfur crisis and criticized Western media for exaggerating the death toll in a video conference with worshippers at a Detroit mosque on Friday.
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Khartoum slammed as &quot;unjustifiable&quot; a US sanctions plan threatened if the Sudanese government does not allow UN forces into the war-torn Darfur region.
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CAIRO - Sudanâs president, threatened with UN sanctions over the Darfur crisis, is due to meet Sunday in Libya with leaders of neighbouring powers to lay down the basis for direct talks with the rebels a few days later.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan, Feb. 2 -- Chinese President Hu Jintao urged Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Friday to work harder to bring more Darfur rebels into the peace process, according to a Sudanese official.
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KHARTOUM, Sept 4  -- Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir declared that he was committed to resolving the crisis in the troubled western Darfur region amid international criticism that his government was not doing enough to stop what the UN has
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CAIRO, Feb. 28 -- The main Sudanese opposition leader said the government is refusing to allow U.N. peacekeepers into the violent Darfur region because it believes the troops would help hunt down war crimes suspects for the International Criminal Court.
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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said Thursday deploying United Nations peacekeepers in the conflict-wracked Darfur region would be the same as allowing foreign forces to occupy his country.
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Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir  defended his handling of the Darfur crisis and criticized  Western media for exaggerating the death toll in a video  conference with worshippers at a Detroit mosque on Friday.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon holds talks with Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir on Thursday to win his support for a rapid deployment of a massive new peacekeeping force in Darfur, a region wracked by four years of war and human suffering.
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Sudan will not allow the United Nations to take control of peacekeepers in Darfur under any circumstance, the president said Tuesday, claiming that rights groups have exaggerated the crisis there in a bid for more cash.
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Libya's leader says Sudan's Darfur conflict is "a quarrel over a camel" that has become an international issue.
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AL-SALAM CAMP, Sudan  - Thousands of displaced Sudanese mobbed U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon as he visited their camp in the troubled Darfur region on a tour aimed at pressing for a political solution to the festering conflict.
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Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir dismissed criticism by the U.N. secretary-general on Friday, saying the U.N. was making unreasonable demands and turning a blind eye to the activities of Darfur rebels.
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KHARTOUM -- President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan , implicated by many in the international community in Darfur's genocide, visited the region yesterday for the first time in the four-year conflict there. The hard-line leader, who has been trying to recast himself in the role of unifier, is scheduled to visit Darfur's three provincial capitals in as many days. In South ...
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Sudan threw the African Union's plan to restore peace to Darfur into turmoil, engaging in a fresh battle with rebel forces and defying an international demand that it halt its offensive, officials said.