Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan capital, Tripoli, Tuesday evening hosted a meetin g between the High-Level Committee formed by the African Union (AU), for the res o lution of the issue of the Sudanese western Darfur province and several politica l and armed factions operating in the province. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN said here on Tuesday that 13,651 peacekeepers have so far been deployed to Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN and AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) is to spend US$ 2 50,000 on the construction of classrooms, toilets and water pumps in the violenc e -ridden Sudan's Darfur region. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN and AU Friday confirmed the appointment of Lt. Full text...

El Fasher- Sudan (PANA) -- UN peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy met with senior pol iticians and state governors in Sudan's Darfur region Tuesday, where he expresse d convern over the continued arms smuggling. Full text...

El Fasher- Sudan (PANA) -- Darfur’s main rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim has pledged to end hostilities in the region, and sign the cessation of hostilities agreemen t with the Sudanese government after nearly six years of fighting in the western r egion. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A contingent of 96 Gambian security officers, drawn from the military, the police and para military departments, have left Banjul, the G a mbian capital, to start United Nations’ peace-keeping mission in Southern Sudan’ s troubled region of Darfur, official sources here told PANA on Saturday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir returned to the intern ational spotlight on Friday when the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecut o r, Louis Moreno O’Campo, briefed the UN Security Council on its efforts to appre h end the Sudanese leader. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The collapse of the ongoing mediation on Darfur could im pact negatively on the fragile peace holding in Southern Sudan, Kenyan Vice-Pres i dent Kalonzo Musyoka has warned. Full text...

s Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- A human rights activist, Djibril Balde, on Tuesday decla red that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir does not have the political will to e n d the conflict in Darfur. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The Special Envoy of US President to Sudan, Scott Gration, on Thursday held a series of meetings with Sudanese officials on the current cr i sis in western Sudanese region of Darfur, a US statement said on Friday. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Darfur on Thursday welcomed the support from leaders acr oss Africa who pledged to stand in solidarity with the civilians of Darfur as th e y meet in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to construct a mandate for their future. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The United Nations on Wednesday began a five-day assessmen t of the humanitarian situation in both Southern Sudan and the war-torn Darfur r e gion. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Secretary for African Union affairs at the Libyan ge neral people's committee for external relations and international cooperation, D r . Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The African Union Panel on Darfur (AUPD) will complete its assignment in four months from now, Mr. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Gunmen in Sudan’s Darfur region have kidnapped five international aid workers, adding to the growing list of frustrations facing foreign workers in the Sudan since the issuance of an arrest warrant against President Omar Hassan al-Bashir. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Gunmen in Sudan’s Darfur region have kidnapped five inter national aid workers, adding to the growing list of frustrations facing foreign w orkers in the Sudan since the issuance of an arrest warrant against President Om a r Hassan al-Bashir. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The joint United Nations/African Union peacekeeping force for Darfur (UNAMID) has come under renewed attacks over the past few days since the issuance of an arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar Bashir with reports of at least four seriously wounded, force commanders said on Tuesday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The African Union (AU) has appointed South Afri ca's former President Thabo Mbeki to chair a committee to investigate human righ t s violations in Darfur as well as mediate between the ICC and Sudan. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- An additional 150 Senegalese peacekeepers arrived Wednesday in El Fasher, North Darfur, to bring the total number of members in the Senegalese infantry battalion in the troubled region to 834, force commanders said. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has increased the number of police patrols to protect civilians from the recent surge in violence. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed an agreement signed on Tuesday in Doha, Qatar, between the Sudanese government and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed an agreement signed on Tuesday in Doha, Qatar, between the Sudanese government and the Justi c e and Equality Movement (JEM). Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The African Union has welcomed the signing of a goodwill accord between the Sudanese government and the Darfur rebels and urged the negotiators to sustain the pressure towards a final settlement to end the Darfur war. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- The eight batches of Gambian peacekeepers, consisting of 98 security agents, left Banjul Friday for Dafur under the African Union peace k eeping mission, in Sudan. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN has again called on member states to provide the `` critical logistical equipment'' needed to empower the UN-AU Mission in Darfur (U N AMID). Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The United Nations Joint Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur said its helicopter came under fire on Monday as it distributed food aid in Dar f ur days after fierce fighting in South Darfur showed signs of easing. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The recent deterioration of security in the Darfur region of Sudan is increasingly threatening civilian safety, a top United Nations offic i al has said. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- African leaders on Wednesday supported a plan to delay the execution of an arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar el-Bash i r, but asked him to take steps to end rights violations in Darfur. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Fresh fighting erupted in Darfur early Monday with repo rts of heavy fighting near the United Nations Joint Peacekeeping Force for Darfu r (UNAMID), which confirmed reports of heavy shelling, mortar fire and sounds of j et fighters around the region. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- Recent violence in the Darfur region of Sudan has forced a UN operation to relocate after fresh fighting destroyed a UN office, according t o a statement in New York on Tuesday by Kenro Oshidari, acting UN humanitarian c o ordinator for Sudan. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Sudan has signed an agreement with the joint Unit ed Nations, African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), allowing the force full ac c ess to use its airports in Khartoum and Darfur to transport heavy military hardw a re into the country. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The United Nations has called for an end to hostilities in the Darfur region of Sudan after the government launched airstrikes Thursday. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- Nigeria has deployed two police units to support the ongoi ng United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), the UN said in a sta t ement issued in New York on Tuesday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Sudanese women leaders, attending a peace forum h ere, Tuesday expressed fears that an impending indictment of President Omar El-B a shir might have profound effects on the welfare and security of women in Darfur. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN announced that 12,374 peacekeepers had so far been deployed to the UN-AU hybrid force in Sudan's Darfur region. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The arrival of a new unit of soldiers deployed to support UN-AU peacekeeping operations in the Darfur region of Sudan has put the operatio n running at 60 per cent capacity, according to the United Nations. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The arrival of a new unit of soldiers deployed to support UN-AU peacekeeping operations in the Darfur region of Sudan has put the operation running at 06 per cent capacity, according to the United Nations. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The United Nations top relief chief, John Holmes, has kicked off a two-day visit to Darfur at Kalma camp, Darfur's largest intern a lly displaced camp, housing close to 88,000 people, a target of the spiraling co n flict in the region. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- A Nigerian military delegation is in Darfur this week to v isit the UN-AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and to assess the situation with the N i gerian troops deployed in the western Sudanese region. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- More than 40 civilians have been killed in south Darfur as fighting in the Sudanese region has escalated in recent time, Human Rights Watc h says. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the Afric a Union (AU) has reiterated its call on the Sudanese government to urgently take concrete steps to bring to justice the perpetrators of human rights violations i n the restive region of Darfur. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The prosecutor of the Hague-based International Criminal C ourt (ICC), Mr Luis Moreno-Ocampo, is in New York to meet with senior internatio n al actors on Sudan's war-town Darfur region, ICC spokesperson Florence Olara tol d PANA Monday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Darfur Consortium, a coalition of more than 50 human rights and civil society organisations, Monday called for "additional peacekeeping forces in Darfur", western Sudan, said a release issued by the coalition and made available to PANA. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Rwandan President Paul Kagame declared that he did not r ule out the possibility of withdrawing his country's 3,000 men contingent in Dar f ur, western Sudan, if legal proceedings are instituted against Rwandan General E m manuel Karenzi Karake. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- Djibril Bassole, the UN-AU joint chief mediator for war-to rn Darfur region of Sudan, says his top priority is holding discussions with all parties involved in the conflict. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- A contigent of Ethiopian troops Monday arrived in Sudan to beef up the UN-AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), PANA learnt. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- With the US abstaining, the UN Security Council has voted to extend by one year the mandate of the UN-African Union (AU) Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), which expired Thursday. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Twelve Darfur rebels have been sentenced to death by ha nging, a day after eight others were ordered to face the gallows over an armed a t tack in a Khartoum suburb, which diluted the government's aura of invincibility. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The security situation in Darfur was relatively calm aga in over the weekend, the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission (UNAMID) to the strife-torn Sudanese region has said. Full text...