Sudan 'backs' Darfur autonomy
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Sudan gives a cautious welcome to a UN suggestion that it grant more autonomy to try to end violence in the troubled region.
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Sudan&#39;s government has defended the forcible relocation of refugees from camps in the western Darfur region. Humanitarian Affairs Minister Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid said it was the act of a responsible government to move them to a better location.
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The UN's refugee chief says Sudan should grant more autonomy to Darfur to try to end continuing violence.
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NAIROBI - The war-torn Darfur region in western Sudan should be given more autonomy by the government in Khartoum, the head of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) was quoted as saying on Friday.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - Sudan agrees to a joint withdrawal of government and rebel forces in Darfur and will accept a big increase in international ceasefire monitors, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday after talks with the country's president.
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EL FASHER, Sudan -- The African Union transferred authority Monday to a new joint peacekeeping force with the United Nations in Darfur that the international community hopes will stem the violence in Sudan's war-torn western region.
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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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Rebels from Sudan's Darfur region Thursday rejected calls to disarm or confine their fighters to their bases before a political solution to the conflict there has been decided and implemented.
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Ruud Lubbers, the head of the UN refugee agency UNHCR, has urged the Sudanese government to give autonomy to the western Darfur region to help end a rebellion there which has led to massive reprisals by Arab militias against black African villagers.
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The Sudanese government and rebel representatives signed accords Tuesday aimed at ending hostilities in the troubled western region of Darfur and guaranteeing aid groups access to 1.6 million civilians uprooted by the conflict.
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The African Union confirmed that Sudan's government has &quot;formally accepted the reinforcement of the AU force&quot; in Darfur, the western region in the grip of civil war, but denied that any accord had been signed.
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The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution Thursday that would give the United Nations authority over peacekeepers in Darfur as soon as Sudan's government gives its consent &#151; which it has so far refused to do.
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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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ABECHE, Chad -- The UN High Commissioner for Refugees proposed autonomy for the troubled Darfur region of Sudan, a solution the government has resisted but said yesterday it would be willing to discuss anew in an effort to end the violence that has killed 50,000 people.
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The Sudanese government may grant more independence to Darfur to end the conflict. Sudanese ministers told an African summit hosted by Libya&#39;s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi that giving
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A rebel leader in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region has said his group will fully respect a truce with Khartoum, countering earlier statements by a spokesman declaring the agreement null and void.
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The Sudanese government and rebel leaders have signed an agreement on security and humanitarian issues in the troubled Darfur region.