U.N. evacuates staff after south Sudan clashes
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Heavy fighting between Sudan's army  and former rebels in the south has forced the United Nations to  evacuate staff.
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U.N. and U.S. officials accused rebels Wednesday of sparking the latest violence in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, actions that violated a cease-fire deal and prevented aid from reaching thousands of refugees.
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Thousands of civilians were on Thursday fleeing clashes near the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Goma between Rwandan Hutu rebels and unidentified opponents, a senior UN official told AFP.
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Rival army units in Democratic Republic of Congo clashed on Saturday not far from Rwanda, the United Nations said, in another sign of military and political turmoil in the east of the former Zaire.
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The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Thursday it was temporarily withdrawing some international staff from South Darfur in western Sudan because authorities there had prevented the staff from performing their duties.
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Some relief agencies have been forced to scale back aid operations and relocate staff due to security incidents in the three Darfur states, the United Nations mission in Sudan said today.
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Sudan has ordered the expulsion of two senior international aid workers it claims have made political statements about the crisis in Darfur.
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A series of armed attacks in the eastern Chad town of Guereda has forced the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees to pull most of its staff out of two nearby refugee camps that house refugees from Darfur.
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At least 3,000 people have fled more violence in Sudan's troubled Darfur province in the past few days, the UN says.
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EL FASHER, Sudan  - Aid agencies fearing an  upsurge of fighting in Sudan's troubled Darfur region have  suspended operations and evacuated staff from the volatile  Jebel Marra area in West Darfur state, U.N. officials said on  Friday.
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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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Aid workers warned Saturday of a humanitarian catastrophe if the United Nations and Red Cross pull out of Sri Lanka, where agency staff are facing mounting restrictions and threats to their safety amid a worsening civil conflict.
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A United Nations official today called for restraint following Sunday's clashes in which an Israeli officer, a UN peacekeeper and a Hezbollah militant were killed near the border in southern Lebanon.
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N'DJAMENA  - The U.N. refugee agency is moving several hundred Sudanese refugees in Chad away from the border to avoid an increased risk of violence in the Darfur region and from local rebels, a spokesman said on Friday.
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GOMA, Congo  - Thousands of civilians have fled  their homes after clashes in the east of the Democratic  Republic of Congo, the United Nations said on Friday, although  it was unclear who was behind the violence.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - The United Nations has suspended its humanitarian operations in Sudan's troubled South Darfur area following a shooting that killed two aid workers, the agency said Monday.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The United Nations has suspended its humanitarian operations in Sudan's troubled South Darfur area following an attack that killed two aid workers, the agency said yesterday.