| Annan sends UN envoy to Sudanese capital to clarify details of Darfur agreements |
19 December 2006
Secretary-General Kofi Annan is dispatching a senior envoy to Khartoum for talks with Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir about the details of recent agreements on ending the widespread killing and displacement in the war-torn Darfur region, including the role of the United Nations, a spokesman for the world body announced today.
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| UN refugee agency resumes repatriation of Sudanese from Ethiopia |
15 December 2006
After a more than six-month suspension due to the rainy season, the United Nations refugee agency has resumed the assisted repatriation of Sudanese from Ethiopia with a first group of 500 leaving for their homeland earlier this week, the vanguard of more than 11,000 expected to return by the end of May.
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| Actors, Olympians tell Annan the fight to end Darfur killings has reached critical stage |
15 December 2006
The battle to end the mass killings and displacement in Sudan’s Darfur region is nearing “a watershed moment” that will determine whether the international community will take decisive action or stand by and witness a repeat of the Rwandan genocide in 1994, the actor Don Cheadle said today.
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