The United Nations high commissioner for human rights on Friday said it was appalled by “brutal” attacks by Rapid Support ...

Overall, more than 200,000 people in Darfur have been killed since 2003, and more than 2.5 million people, largely African villagers, now live in massive refugee camps scattered across Darfur and ...

The African Union has sent roughly 5,000 troops — mostly Rwandans and Nigerians — to protect civilians and monitor the cease-fire. Another 2500 will be deployed by the end of this month.

The African Union said Tuesday its troops will leave Darfur by the end of the month unless Sudan drops its opposition to the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers, and U.N. chief Kofi Annan warned ...

When the fighting reached its peak in Darfur in spring 2004, the government of Sudan allowed a small number of African Union peacekeepers in to Darfur. Ostensibly, their job was to monitor a nominal ...

The U.N. Security Council and the AU have agreed that a U.N. force should take over operations in Darfur and that the 7,000 African troops now on the ground in Darfur must be reinforced quickly.

African For three years, the small, underfunded African Union (AU) protection force has been seen as the main hope for peace in the Darfur region of Sudan. But hampered by a weak mandate and ...

On 23 September, hundreds of people converged on the Al Zubair Stadium in El Fasher, North Darfur, to participate in the launch of the “We Need Peace Now” campaign, organized by the African ...

The UN and the AU's Abuja partners the United States, the United Kingdom, Norway, France, Italy and the Netherlands must take the lead in planning for the all-Darfur conference now. Building a ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Sept. 25 -- The African Union will add 4,000 troops to its Darfur peacekeeping mission, bolstering the 7,000 poorly funded and under-equipped A.U. forces currently ...

There are nearly 7,000 troops from the African Union in Darfur to protect civilians. Reporter Daniel Pepper has been traveling with an AU delegation, and he joins us from the town of El Fasher.

The continued deployment of African Union troops into Darfur in 2005 unquestionably saved lives. However, the belated decision by the A.U.—a new, still poorly equipped organization—to allow ...