Sudan launches Darfur assault
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Sudanese troops and helicopter gunships launched another offensive against rebels in the Darfur region yesterday, breaking a deadline for fighting to end.
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Rebels have attacked a South Darfur oil pumping station, the police chief said Monday, and an African Union official said shots fired at an AU helicopter had hurt efforts to monitor military activity in the region.
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UNITED NATIONS -- A U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force faced the first major challenge to its authority in Darfur, Sudan, this week, enduring more than 10 minutes of hostile fire from Sudanese forces without responding with a single shot.
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The UN Security Council and the United States Wednesday slammed a recent attack on a supply convoy of UN-African Union troops in Darfur as a senior UN official said Sudan admitted responsibility for the incident.
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BRITAIN&#39;S Foreign Secretary Jack Straw flew to Sudan today, stepping up international pressure on the government there to tackle the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Darfur.
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UN chief Kofi Annan blasted a Sudanese government onslaught against rebels in strife-torn Darfur as Security Council members vented mounting exasperation with Khartoum's refusal to accept a UN takeover of peacekeeping there.
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The United Nations says Sudanese police have raided a camp in Darfur and destroyed makeshift homes, fired into the air and shouted at terrified villagers.
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Sudan on Friday accused Chad of sending troops into its western province of Darfur and said Chadian warplanes had bombarded two areas in the region.
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Sudanese police raided a camp in  Darfur on Wednesday during which they destroyed makeshift  homes, fired into the air and shouted at terrified villagers,  the United Nations said.
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The United States lashed out on Friday   at Sudan's government for its new military offensive in Darfur   and urged the Arab League and the United Nations to do more to   help end the crisis in western Sudan.
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PRETORIA -- The conflict in Darfur began with a bold strike. Two rebel factions in western Sudan, angry over years of neglect from the government in Khartoum, overran the army in the north Darfur town of Fasher early last year, killing as many as 70 soldiers.
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Large quantities of arms and ammunition have poured into Darfur in the last two weeks and the government appears to be preparing for a major military offensive, the African Union (AU) said on Friday.
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Thousands of refugees were caught in the crossfire Wednesday as Darfur rebels battled a large Sudanese government offensive near Sudan's border with Chad, rebels and humanitarian workers said.
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Sudanese government aircraft, army and militia attacked three towns in West Darfur state on Friday, causing heavy civilian casualties, Darfur rebels and witnesses said.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell says he will pursue with Sudan an assault by security forces on a refugee camp.
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Darfur rebels attacked a government troop convoy in recent days and are using a presence in at least one refugee camp to target police, a Sudanese governor said on Wednesday.
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AL-FASHER, Sudan  - Dozens of Rwandan soldiers arrived in Sudan's troubled Darfur region Sunday, the first foreign armed force deployed in the area since Arab militiamen began a rampage against black African farmers, killing thousands.