A United Nations peacekeeper was killed in Darfur, the first UN casualty since the world body began sending small reinforcements to a beleaguered African Union force deployed in the violent western Sudan region, the AU and UN said on Saturday. He was shot by unidentified gunmen who looted his house late on Friday.
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/ 3 February 2007
Chinese President Hu Jintao told Sudan’s leader he must give the United Nations a bigger role in trying to resolve the conflict in Darfur and also said China wanted to do more business with its key African ally. Hu urged President Omar al-Bashir in a face-to-face meeting on Friday to boost the UN’s ”constructive role in realising peace in Darfur”.
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/ 23 January 2007
Sudan’s air force bombed Darfur villages in violation of a recent ceasefire, hindering African and American attempts to unite rebel groups under a common leadership that can commit to peace, the African Union (AU) said on Monday. The AU comments were the first independent confirmation of reports from rebel leaders about the air raids in northern Darfur last week.
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/ 19 January 2007
Clashes between tribes of Arab nomads and ethnic African farmers competing for Darfur’s resources have killed 150 people in the last two weeks, according to the United Nations mission to Sudan. The UN mission also said that 64 people among the latest wave of refugees chased by separate pro-government Janjaweed militia raids have been diagnosed with leprosy.
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/ 18 November 2006
A top Sudanese official signalled that Khartoum would accept United Nations troops as part of an African-led peacekeeping mission in Darfur, but perhaps not as many as the West has asked for under an agreement aimed at ending the continuing violence.
The first tomb discovered in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings in 80 years doesn’t have any mummies, but archaeologists opened the last of eight sarcophagi on Wednesday and found something they say is even more valuable: embalming materials and a rare collar of ancient, woven flowers.
A new surge of interethnic and militia violence has killed at least 60 people in separate attacks in Darfur over the past few days, the African Union and the United Nations said on Sunday. The killings came ahead of an expected visit by top UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on Tuesday.
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/ 25 October 2005
Alpha, the Atlantic season’s record-breaking 22nd named storm, left at least 10 people dead in Haiti and the Dominican Republic before moving north into the Atlantic Ocean and weakening into a tropical depression, authorities said. The storm also left two dozen people missing in the two countries.