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/ 17 January 2007
United Nations agencies on Wednesday said the world’s largest aid operation in Darfur is under threat because of attacks and insecurity and urged concrete steps be taken to stem the violence. The joint statement said in the past six months about 250 000 people had been forced to flee violence, many for the second or third time.
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/ 16 January 2007
Sudanese government planes bombed Darfur rebel areas on Tuesday despite a declared truce, rebels said. ”The Antonovs bombed our areas of Amrai and Anka,” Darfur rebel commander Jar el-Neby told the media from North Darfur, near the affected areas. He said it was not immediately clear whether any civilians were killed.
Khartoum has softened its stance on United Nations troops being deployed to Darfur, leaving the door open for blue-helmeted international troops to protect civilians in its vast west, a presidential adviser said on Monday. Khartoum has rejected UN Security Council Resolution 1706 authorising 22 500 UN troops and police to take over the Darfur peacekeeping mission.
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/ 20 December 2006
Attacks on Darfur aid workers’ compounds in the town of Gereida have forced the evacuation of 71 staff and severely restricted humanitarian aid reaching the region’s largest population of war victims, officials said on Wednesday. About 20 armed men launched a coordinated attack in the south Darfur town on Monday night.
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/ 30 November 2006
Hundreds of people may have been killed in the heaviest fighting between Sudan’s former north-south foes since they signed a peace deal last year, a senior former rebel officer said on Thursday. United Nations officials in New York said 240 civilian personnel had been temporarily evacuated after the clashes in the southern town of Malakal over the past three days.
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/ 28 November 2006
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has put a nail in the coffin of a proposed United Nations role in the peace mission in Darfur, possibly sending UN planners back to the drawing board. At a news conference on Monday evening, Bashir repeated his hard-line position in opposition to a joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force.
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/ 13 November 2006
Up to 30 villagers were killed and 40 wounded when armed men riding horses and camels attacked a village in the Darfur region of western Sudan, an African Union official said on Monday. The attackers are suspected to be Janjaweed, militiamen who have killed and plundered across the arid region.
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/ 13 November 2006
United Nations humanitarian chief Jan Egeland held a dramatic jungle meeting with the leader of the rebel Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army on Sunday but failed to secure the release of women and children. Joseph Kony, an elusive self-proclaimed mystic, emerged with an entourage of heavily armed young men from dense forest on the border between Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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/ 1 November 2006
More used to the sound of gunfire, the residents of Darfur’s main town el-Fasher tapped their feet to a rare beat as musicians from all over Sudan performed in a festival for reconciliation. For 10 days, puppet shows for children, street theatre and concerts provided welcome distraction for Darfuris who have been terrorised by rebels, the government and militias.
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/ 24 October 2006
Top United Nations envoy Jan Pronk left Khartoum on Monday after the government raised the stakes in a dispute with the world body by ordering him out of the country. Khartoum was already on a collision course with the international community over its rejection of a UN Security Council resolution to send 22 500 UN troops and police to its violent western Darfur region.