Article: Darfur Rebels Release African Union Team

Article: African Union authorizes deployment of 1,700 ...
AP Worldstream;  May 12, 2005 ;     442 words ...ANTHONY MITCHELL, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 05-12 ... ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia The African Union on Thursday authorized the deployment ... Union report obtained by The Associated Press, officials propose that the ...

Article: Rebels in Sudan's conflict-torn Darfur briefly detain an ...
AP Worldstream;  May 12, 2005 ;     364 words ... ... detained a team of African Union observers, bringing ... negotiations with the African Union, union spokesman Noureddin Mezeni told The Associated Press. The rebels said they ... notification, the African Union said. In a statement ...

Article: African Union Ready to Send GIs to Darfur
AP Online;  September 22, 2004 ;     635 words ... ... GERALD NADLER, Associated Press Writer AP Online ... NATIONS A top African Union official said ... violence. The African Union is ready to ... weeks," African Union Commission ... Konare told The Associated Press. But Konare ...

Article: Nigerian president says African Union ready to send ...
AP Worldstream;  September 23, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... LEDERER, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream ... NEW YORK The African Union can quickly ... said. The African Union has about 80 ... Wednesday, African Union Commission ... Konare told The Associated Press that troop ...

Article: African Union ready to move peacekeepers to Darfur ...
AP Worldstream;  September 22, 2004 ;     608 words ... ... the violence. The African Union is ready to send 4 ... within days, weeks," African Union Commission Chairman ... Oumar Konare told The Associated Press. But Konare said movement ... deployment of a beefed-up African Union force with an expanded ...

Article: African Union to scale up planned troop deployment ...
AP Worldstream;  August 4, 2004 ;     469 words ... ... observers from the 53-nation African Union, are expected to arrive ... for the organization. The African Union's executive arm decided ... force," Thiam told The Associated Press. In May the African Union decided to send 150 military ...

Article: African Union kicks off amid hopes
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 10, 2002 ;     640 words ...African Union kicks off amid hopes, doubts By DINA KRAFT Associated Press Wednesday, July 10 ... on Tuesday launched the African Union, an ambitious new body ... coastal city. Mbeki, the African Union's first chairman, has ...