New York- UN (PANA) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday condemned "in the strongest possible terms'' a deadly weekend attack on African Union (AU) peacekeepers in Darfur. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The African Union (AU) has vowed to keep peace in the fragile Darfur region, but warned attacks on its ground troops in the region could impact negatively on efforts to achieve a political solution to the conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Eight seriously injured personnel of the African Union (AU) peacekeeping force in Darfur region have been evacuated from Haskanita camp Darfur to Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, for emergency treatment, a senior official at the AU headquarters told PANA Monday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Outraged by the rebel attack that left 10 personnel of the African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission dead and 10 others wounded in South Darfur Saturday, AU Commission Chairperson Alpha Oumar Konare has said the assailants will bear the consequences of the heinous act. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Force Commander of the UN-AU Hybrid Force in Sudan, Nigerian General Martin Luther Agwai, has said the only way out of the Darfur crisis will be the eventual disarmament of the warring factions. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has described the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region as ``a case study in complexity''. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- The UN and Sudan have deadlocked on whether there are enough qualified African troops to deploy as peace keepers in the troubled Darfur region. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has set up a trust fund to support next month's Darfur peace talks in Tripoli, Libya. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- The UN and Sudan have deadlocked on whether there are enough qualified African troops to deploy as peace keepers in the troubled Darfur region. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- China has said resolving the Darfur conflict will need the cooperation and support of the Sudanese government. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Sudanese civil society representatives, dipl omats, and South African human rights activists will Thursday hold discussions i n Johannesburg on continued human rights violations in Sudan's western Darfur reg i on. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said here at the weekend that Libyan leader Moammar Kadhafi is ready to help end the war in Sudan's western Darfur region. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) – Prosecutor of the Hague--based International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has renewed his call for the arrest of indicted Darfur war criminals. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Peace negotiations for the restive Darfur region of western Sudan will start once again 27 Oct. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The African Union Commission and the UN have chosen Libya to host the final negotiations between the Sudanese government and the non-signatories to the Abuja Peace Agreement, the Libyan News Agency, JANA, reported in Tripoli. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- A Pakistani diplomat, Ashraf Qazi, has been appointed the Special Representative of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to Sudan's western Darfur region, UN spokesperson Michele Montas said here. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Rwanda will send a battalion of 800 troops for the hybri d AU-UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan's western region of Darfur mid-October, Rwan dan military spokesman, Maj. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- Amnesty International (AI) claims the Sudanese government is sending weapons to Darfur region in defiance of a UN arms embargo. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- African Union (AU)'s Special Envoy for Darfur, Salim Ahmed Salim, has started a week-long visit to Sudan to further consult on preparations for the upcoming negotiations on the restive western region of the country. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Rwanda has pledged additional troops to strengthen the hybrid AU/UN peace keeping forces in Sudan's crisis- prone western region of Darfur, military sources affirmed in Kigali Thursday. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso has announced that the country will contribute troops to the UN/AU hybrid peacekeeping force being planned for Sudan's Western Darfur region. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Though hailing the disposition of opposing parties involved in the Darfur crisis to negotiate, the African Union (AU) Special Envoy to the troubled region of western Sudan, Salim Ahmed Salim, said here Tuesday the road ahead was still very tough. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- The South African government is impressed by the developments in the Darfur Peace Talks convened by the United Nations and African Union (AU) in Arusha, Tanzania, 3-6 August. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The European Union (EU) has welcomed the adoption by the UN Security Council of the resolution allowing the deployment of the joint AU/UN force in Sudan's western Darfur region, according to an EU statement. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- German Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said here Thursday his country would provide US$32 million for logistics in support of the UN/AU hybrid peace keeping force, to be deployed in Sudan's Western Darfur region. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, has welcomed the "constructive outcome" of a well-attended international meeting on the situation in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- Oxfam, International Crisis Group (ICG) and Human Right Watch (HRW) have asked the Portuguese government not to invite Sudanese President Omar El-Beshir to the Europe/Africa summit planned for December in Lisbon, officials revealed here Tuesday. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) – Resultant consensus from t-he international conference held in Tripoli on the Darfur crisis reflected the will of the international community to achieve peace in Darfur through the adoption of a political dialogue as the only option for peace, UN envoy Jan Eliason observed here Monday. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- UN Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Marie Guehenno, has called on member states to contribute troops, police and civilian personnel to the UN-AU hybrid force for the war-torn Darfur region in western Sudan. Full text...

Accra- Ghana, (PANA) -- A coalition of local and international human rights organisation late Wednesday night held a solidarity show at Ghana's National Theatre, Accra, to press the African leaders to call for an immediate end to the carnage in the Darfur region of Sudan. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The International Federation of Human Rights and allied organisations have urged African leaders attending the African Union summit in Accra to ensure an immediate deployment of a hybrid UN-AU force to restore peace in Darfur, as agreed upon by UN Resolution 1706 ten months ago. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- A Darfur human rights advocate, Salih Mahmoud Osman, has called on African leaders to be courageous and ask Sudan to stop the torture, killings and other forms of human rights abuse in the country's province of Darfur. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has warned that the international community will insist on the cooperation of the Sudanese government and the rebel groups, in the settlement of crisis in Sudan's western region of Darfur. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) - – French President Nicolas Sarkozy, announced here Monday that Paris would support the African Mission in Sudan (AMIS) with 10 million Euros, toward ending the war in that country's western region of Darfur. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) – French foreign minister, Be-rnard Kouchner Monday told a ministerial meeting of the extended contact Group for Darfur here that Sudanese parties to the Darfur crisis should be pressurised back to the negotiating table. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) – The African Union (AU) has -boycotted the Paris international conference on Darfur, which opened here Monday. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- US and its allies on the UN Security Council may impose additional sanctions against the Sudan government if it shows any "feet-dragging" on the deployment of the UN/AU hybrid force to end human sufferings in the Darfur region, US envoy to the UN, Zalmay Khalilzad, warned here. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) Thursday welcomed Sudan's acceptance of the hybrid peacekeeping operation to be mounted by the United Nations in the country's troubled western region of Darfur. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Darfurians are, at long last, getting some indication of a likely end to the bloody crisis that has riddled their native region in western Sudan for nearly four years. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- After painstaking tripartite negotiations, the United Nations, the African Union and the Government of Sudan Tuesday reached a mutual understanding on having a Hybrid Peacekeeping Operation in the troubled Darfur region of western Sudan. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- The UN, African Union (AU) and the Sudanese government will meet on 11-12 June in Khartoum on the deployment of 23,000 peacekeepers to war-torn Darfur region, UN deputy spokesperson Marie Okabe said here Friday. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) Thursday called on Sudan to arrest its two citizens indicted over the war in in the country's western region of Darfur. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- Anglican Archbishop and Nobel laureate, His Grace Desmond Tutu is expected Tuesday in Brussels to participate in discussions over the bloody conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- US efforts to push the UN for more sanctions on Sudan took a blow late Tuesday after the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he will still adopt diplomatic posture to resolve the crisis. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- US President George Bush is expected Tuesday to announce "stiff" economic sanctions against Sudan, according to the New York Times. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- The UN Security Council has approved the deployment of more than 23,000 peacekeepers in Sudan's troubled western region of Darfur under a joint UN-AU command. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) – Several international artis-tes including France's Francis Lalanne and Congo's Sinda Makelele and Mimi Mavitiku have jointly produced a three-minute pop video in which they urge the UN to protect the people Sudan's western region of Darfur. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- The UN and the African Union (AU) have submitted a joint report to the UN Security Council on the hybrid peacekeeping force for Sudan's war-torn western region of Darfur. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- An impression on Sudan's restive region of Darfur by Malagasy painter, Brigitte Rabarijoana, is on display at the Africa Week event currently underway here since Monday. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- Hollywood stars, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have donated US$1 million for humanitarian assistance to war victims in Sudan's western region of Darfur, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR said in a statement here Friday. Full text...