International response to Darfur on meeting agenda

Key players in the Darfur crisis are meeting in Paris today in a bid to build a unified international response to violence in the troubled region of Sudan - although Sudan itself has not been invited.

French officials said they hope to mobilise the international community at what they called a “pivotal moment” in the four-year conflict, following the Sudanese government’s agreement earlier this month to allow the deployment of a joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force in the region.