Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The African Union (AU) summit on the worsening situation in Sudan's western Darfur region and Chad, failed to take place as scheduled Wednesday in the Nigerian capital Abuja, organisers said. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Concerned by the consistent failure of Sudanese authorities to protect civilians in the war-wracked Darfur region, Amnesty International (AI) Wednesday urged the African Union to ensure that the effective protection and human rights of the civilian population are at the centre of any peacekeeping operation in the region. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Tuesday, he expected Sudan to respond by Wednesday to the proposed deployment of a UN-African Union force in the country's troubled western region of Darfur. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said here Monday he was still waiting for a positive response from Sudanese President Omar Hassan El-Bashir, on the proposed deployment of a UN-African Union hybrid force in the country's strife-torn western region of Darfur. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The International Criminal Court (ICC) is investigating alleged war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region and may soon file charges, according to a senior UN official. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- United Nations humanitarian chief Jan Egeland says about four million people in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region are in need of urgent assistance. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Medicines Sans Frontieres (MSF) Thursday decried what it termed "intensified" cases of violence in Sudan's volatile region of Darfur, saying its workers have been unable to reach hundreds of families in need of emergency health services. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- On the eve of a crucial meeting in Addis Ababa on the escalating Darfur crisis, the Sudanese government has rejected a plan to deploy a joint UN-African Union (AU) force in country's troubled western region, a senior UN official has said here. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- UN and African Union (AU) officials are to hold a crucial meeting in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, on the crisis in Sudan's western region of Darfur, a UN official has said here. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the organisation's 15-member Security Council have deliberated on the current situation in the troubled western Darfur region of Sudan. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN is to despatch military equipment and personnel as well as police advisers to assist the African Union (AU) Mission in Sudan (AMIS), as part of efforts to ensure peace and security in the country's troubled western region of Darfur, a UN official has said. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The United Nations Mission in Sudan has reported three violent attacks on displaced persons near Kalma camp in South Darfur in recent days. Full text...

Beijing- China (PANA) -- Some African leaders attending the ongoing Sino-African summit in Beijing Sunday met on the sidelines of the gathering to deliberate on the worsening situation in Sudan's western Darfur region and the country's persistent refusal to accept UN forces. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) – Senegalese president Abdou-laye Wade Tuesday briefed Libyan leader Moammar Kadhafi on contacts made with the stakeholders in the Darfur (western Sudan) crisis under the aegis of the initiative of senior African leaders committee to resolve the Darfur issue. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Alpha Oumar Konare has expressed regret and disappointment at Khartoum's decision to expel Jan Pronk, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Sudan. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The European Union (EU) said Thursday it would extend until 31 December its ongoing assistance to the African Union (AU) Military Mission in Sudan (AMIS). Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- With the Sudanese government continuing to reject the deployment of UN peacekeepers to war-ravaged Darfur region, an international think tank has suggested the use of sanctions to increase pressure on Khartoum to accept the UN deployment. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, paid tribute to the efforts and enlightened visions of Libyan leader, Col. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson, Alpha Oumar Konare Thursday met Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Africa's peacekeeping efforts in Sudan's troubled western Darfur region. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that in September, food rations reached more than 158,000 people in Darfur, western Sudan, who have been cut off in recent months. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Violence against women and children by warring groups is reaching alarming levels in Sudan's western region of Darfur, according to UN agencies. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said here Tuesday it would be neither in Africa nor the world's interest to stand by and allow genocide to develop in Sudan's troubled western region of Darfur. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- The government of Sudan has accepted the United Nations' offer to support the African Union peacekeeping mission (AMIS) in the country's western region of Darfur, the UN announced on Friday. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The European Commission (EC) has freshly donated 26 million euros to efforts of the World Food Programme (WFP) in Sudan's crisis-ravaged western Darfur region. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- UK-based international human rights group Amnesty International (AI) Thursday described the Khartoum government's agreement to an extension of the African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission in Sudan, AMIS, as a first step towards the protection of civilians in Darfur but insisted this must be followed by the deployment of UN peacekeepers. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- The Sudanese president, Omar Hassan El Bashir, Thursday in Casablanca reiterated his "categorical rejection" of the United Nations Resolution 1706 providing the deployment of UN troops to Darfur, describing it as "unacceptable, because based on false information and considerations". Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has accused the African Union (AU), Arab League and the United Nations of inaction in Sudan's western Darfur region, where a three-year conflict has claimed some 200,000 lives and made over two million homeless. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights, FIDH, and its member organisations in Africa and Middle East, Sunday urged the Sudanese government to agree the deployment of a UN peacekeeping mission in the country's troubled western region of Darfur, in accordance with UN Security Council resolution 1706. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) - – A protest meant to denounce violence which has been prevailing since 23 February 2003 in Darfur, will be staged in Paris Saturday, organisers told PANA Friday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Sudanese President Omar Hassan El-Bashir, Thursday here restated his country's opposition to the replacement of the African Union (AU) peacekeeping force in Darfur with an UN mission. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- If the African Union (AU) mission in Sudan's western region of Darfur has failed, the AU should withdraw its peacekeepers, Sudan's State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Elsamani Elwasila, has said. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The people of Darfur "are effectively being held hostage to the deadlock between the UN, the African Union (AU) and the Sudanese government in defiance of international revulsion at the suffering of ordinary Darfuris," Amnesty International (AI) has charged. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Hundreds of thousands of people in Darfur have gone hungry for three consecutive months because fighting and banditry have prevented the World Food Programme (WFP) from reaching them, the UN body disclosed here Monday. Full text...

Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Kadhafi Saturday described the raging crisis in Sudan's western region of Darfur as a "conflict for oil control" among major Western oil companies. Full text...

Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- Sudanese President Omar Hassan El-Bashir, Saturday reiterated his opposition to the planned replacement of the African Union (AU) Mission by UN peacekeepers in his country's troubled western region of Darfur. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- Rather than create a separate peacekeeping mission, the UN Security Council on Thursday expanded the mandate of the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) to help keep peace in the country's war-ravaged Darfur region. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Rebels operating in Sudan's western region of Darfur killed eight aid workers employed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and robbed several workers in July, underlining the fragile security situation in the region, the relief agency said Thursday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The intransigence of the Sudanese people and leadership to accept UN troops to deploy in Sudan to replace African peacekeepers is a major matter of concern for Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade, who has been facilitating in this region to help settle the ongoing conflicts there. Full text...

Darfur- Sudan (PANA) -- Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has pledged to increase the number of Senegalese contingent serving with the African Union (AU) Mission in Darfur from 622 to 1,000 troops. Full text...

El Fasher- Sudan (PANA) -- Armed conflict continues to spread distress in the Darfur region (North Sudan) since 2003, leaving thousands dead and over one million displaced, despite a peace agreement signed last May in Abuja, Nigeria. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Leader of the former Darfur rebel Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) Minni Arkua Minnawi has arrived in Khartoum to start practical implementation of the peace deal signed last May meant to end the bloody conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudanese President Omar Hassan El-Bashir has appointed Minni Arkua Minawi, leader of a faction of the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM), his Senior Assistant in an apparent move to rescue a fragile peace accord to end the civil war in the country's western region of Darfur, official sources said here. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Humanitarian NG0, Doctors Without Borders, with French acronym, MSF, has expressed concern over heightened insecurity in Sudan's troubled western region of Darfur, saying the situation hindered medical services in the area. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian Vice-President Atiku Abubakar Tuesday urged the international community to raise the level of engagement and dialogue with the government of Sudan for the restoration of peace in the country's troubled western Darfur region. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- The security situation remains worrying in the Darfur region in northwestern Sudan, especially displaced people's camps where humanitarian agencies, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said in a statement issued here Friday. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The United Nations Sunday accused fighters of the former main rebel group in the western Darfur region of raping and murdering civilians in fighting against rebel factions that rejected a recent peace deal. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The Sudanese government has ordered Chadian military personnel working with African Union (AU) peacekeeping force in the conflict prone western Darfur region to quit the area immediately, clearly sign of unresolved antagonism between both countries. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) – The Sudanese National Ass-embly has ratified the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) between the Khartoum government and the main rebel movement in Darfur to end some three years of fighting the country's western region. Full text...

Banjul- The Gambia (PANA) -- The African Union (AU) plans to raise the force level of its mission in Sudan from about 7,000 to 10,500 ahead of a possible takeover of the mission by the United Nations. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Senior members of the main group of Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) are in Khartoum to strategize how to implement the recently signed Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) that is intended to end what the UN had describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Full text...