AP - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is calling for the appointment of a U.S. special envoy to Sudan, where a three-year rebellion in the Darfur region has left an estimated 180,000 people dead and displaced 2 million more.

Reuters - The Sudanese human rights organization SUDO said on Wednesday the West Darfur authorities had closed down three of its offices because it did not like its work overcoming divisions in the troubled region.

AP - Increasing violence has left hundreds of thousands of civilians in Sudan's Darfur region without food and facing the prospect of widespread disease and death within weeks, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Monday.

Canadian Press - ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - African Union mediators presented ceasefire proposals Sunday for the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, asking rebels and the Sudanese government to work together to end military activity against relief supply routes and refugee camps.

AP - African Union mediators presented cease-fire proposals Sunday for the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, asking rebels and the Sudanese government to work together to end military activity against relief supply routes and refugee camps.

Reuters - Five members of the main opposition group in eastern Sudan were arrested or detained, party officials said on Saturday, in a move they said hindered any chance to start long-delayed peace talks.

AP - The African Union decided Friday to extend its peacekeeping mission in Sudan's Darfur region for six months to give itself time to negotiate a peace agreement, but it promised to transfer control to the United Nations once that is accomplished.

Yvonne Lee - AHN Staff Reporter (AHN) - The African Union will extend its peace mission to Sudan's Darfur region until at least September. In a move strongly opposed by Sudan, the organization will then hand over control to the United Nations. Thousands are protesting the impending transfer,...

Yvonne Lee - AHN Staff Reporter (AHN) - The African Union is extending its peace mission to Sudan's Darfur region until at least September. It will then hand over control of the area to the United Nations, a move strongly opposed by Sudan. Thousands have protested the impending transfer and...

AFP - The African Union agreed in principle to hand over its cash-strapped peacekeeping mission in Sudan's wartorn Darfur region to the United Nations, officials said.

AFP - The cash-strapped African Union began considering whether to hand over peacekeeping operations in Sudan's troubled Darfur region to the United Nations amid warnings of continued genocide.

AP - Sudan's foreign minister urged the African Union on Friday to refuse to let the United Nations take over peacekeeping operations in Sudan's Darfur region.

The AU is to take the controversial decision on whether to ask the UN to take over its peace mission in Darfur.

Reuters - The African Union met on Friday to decide the future of its peacekeeping mission in Darfur, with international donors pushing for a handover to the United Nations against vehement opposition from Sudan.

The UN Refugee Agency says it is being forced to cut relief work in Darfur because of continued insecurity there.

A top Sudan official alleged to be involved in mass killings in Darfur has secretly visited the UK, it has emerged.

Reuters - The United States made a new plea to African nations on Thursday to back the deployment of U.N. peacekeeping troops in Sudan's Darfur region and sought to ease Sudanese concerns about the make-up of the force.

AFP - Sudan's government warned that deploying a United Nations force in the war-torn western Darfur region risks worsening conflict there and eroding the African Union's mandate to intervene in other trouble spots in the continent.

Reuters - Sudan's opposition said on Thursday they supported a plan to hand over peacekeeping in the country's troubled Darfur region to the United Nations and denounced a government media campaign against it as misleading.

AP - Tens of thousands of Sudanese marched through Khartoum on Wednesday, protesting plans to deploy of U.N. peacekeepers in conflict-torn Darfur and demanding the expulsion of the top U.N. and U.S. envoys in the country.