UN News Centre:
The Sudanese Government remains committed to the deployment of a hybrid United Nations-African Union (AU) peacekeeping force in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today as his Special Envoy continued his mission to find a durable solution to the conflict that has caused massive humanitarian suffering.
The envoy Jan Eliasson conducted what he described as fruitful and substantive talks with Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir in the capital, Khartoum, where they discussed and agreed on the need for a political solution, including the planned joint UN-AU force.
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More than 200,000 people have been killed and at least 2.5 million others displaced since 2003 because of fighting across Darfur – an arid and impoverished region on Sudan’s western flank – between Government forces, allied militias and rebel groups seeking greater autonomy.
According to the UN, Eliasson told reporters "the conflict could only have a political solution and not a military one."
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