Africa Union 'will quit Darfur'
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The African Union reaffirms it will pull out of Darfur, after Sudan rejected  UN plans to take control of the mission.
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is withdrawing its forces from the region to meet an African Union ceasefire deadline, an AU spokesman says. village of Labado on Saturday, Assane Ba said on Sunday.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The African Union announced yesterday it would extend the stay of its underfinanced force in Sudan's Darfur region until the end of the year, heading off an immediate worsening of the crisis.
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Sudan agrees to halt its military operations in Darfur immediately, a UK envoy in Khartoum says.
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The Sudanese government agreed on Sunday to stop military operations in Darfur and asked the African Union to request that rebels do the same, British ambassador William Patey said.
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The African Union agrees to strenghten its force in Sudan's Darfur region from under 400 to more than 3,000.
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Sudan said Monday that the African Union has no right to transfer its peacekeeping mission in Darfur to the United Nations and must withdraw its troops from the western region by month's end.
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The African Union (AU) said Wednesday at the end of the third day of peace talks on Sudan&#39;s Darfur in Abuja, capital of Nigeria, that it would finalize a protocol on security
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Sudan has agreed to the deployment, mandate and structure of a combined United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force for its troubled Darfur region, a senior AU official said on Tuesday.
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EL-FASHER, Sudan  - A joint United Nations-African Union (AU) force took charge of peacekeeping in Darfur on Monday, seeking to end almost five years of fighting in the western Sudanese region.
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The African Union says Sudan&#39;s government is starting to withdraw troops from Darfur, heeding an AU demand to end fighting by Saturday.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan, Sept. 3 -- Sudan on Sunday asked African Union forces monitoring a shaky truce in its Darfur region to leave the country by Sept. 30, as the government launched a new offensive threatening a return to full-blown war.
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Sudan has asked African Union forces  monitoring a shaky truce in its violent Darfur region to leave  the country when their mandate ends on September 30, a  spokesman said on Sunday.
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EL-FASHER, Sudan  - Darfur's two main rebel groups will not attend U.N.-African Union mediated peace talks in Libya, their leaders said on Friday, dashing any chance of an immediate peace deal to end 4-1/2 years of war in western Sudan.
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ABUJA : Darfur&#39;s two rebel groups said they would boycott African Union-led peace talks with Sudanese officials for one day in protest at alleged recent attacks on civilians by government forces.
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The African Union could pave the way on Thursday for a restart of the Darfur peace talks in Nigeria if it confirms the government has stopped fighting in the western Sudanese region, mediators said.
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The African Union gives the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels until 1700 GMT on Sunday to stop fighting.