WASHINGTON, August 6 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Sudan said it has drawn up a plan to disarm militias and tackle humanitarian crisis in Darfur as US President George W. Bush allocated around a hundred million dollars as relief assistance for the Sudan's western troubled region.

The Sudanese government had formulated a plan, in cooperation with the United Nations to disarm marauding militia and handle the humanitarian disaster in western Sudan in a bid to implement the UN Security Council resolution, Reuters news agency quoted UN officials as saying Thursday, August 5.

The agreement contains detailed steps to be taken in the next 30 days "on how to begin to disarm the Janjaweed and other outlawed groups, on improving security in Darfur, and on addressing the humanitarian crisis," UN associate spokeswoman Denise Cook said in New York.

"If that text is agreed upon by the Sudanese cabinet as a whole and if that text is implemented, then I have very good hope that the Security Council ... can only come to the conclusion that there is indeed substantial progress," Jan Pronk, Annan's special representative said.

Sudan had earlier said it will start disarming militias in the troubled area of Darfur by next week.

"The security and judicial commissions are going to start work disarming the uncontrolled militias in Darfur next week," Brigadier General Jamal Al-Hueres, police chief of North Darfur state, told the pro-government Sudan Media Center.

In Addis Ababa, a United Nations team and the African Union officials held a meeting Friday, August 6, to discuss means of offering assistance to the AU peacekeeping forces in Darfur, due to be deployed in the area, UN officials said.

The team will head for Khartoum Sunday to hold talks with Sudanese officials on the same issue, they added.

"After the talks with AU commission chairman Alpha Oumar Konare on how the United Nations could help the African peacekeeping force to be deployed in Darfur, the team will fly to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, Sunday for similar consultations with the government there," the team's leader Patrick Cammaert said.

The AU had said it was planning to transform what was supposed to be a 300-man unit to protect AU observers overseeing a shaky ceasefire in Darfur into a 2,000-strong peacekeeping force.

In Washington, US President George W. Bush has allocated some $95 million in famine assistance and other aid in the $417 billion wartime defense bill for the people of the Sudan's war-torn province of Darfur.

"The legislation includes 95 million dollars in famine relief and other aid to help the people in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, where "brutal militias there are causing human suffering on an immense scale," Agence France Presse (AFP) quoted Bush as saying.

The US President stressed it was for the interest of the United States to push for disarming militias in Darfur to end violence in the Sudan's western province.

“Recent history has shown that the threats to our shores can emerge from failing states half a world away,” Bush said. “By acting early to end a crisis, we can make our world safer.”

Bush further urged the Sudanese government to take quick steps to disarm the Janjaweed militias in the Sudan's troubled region of Darfur and to allow the flow of humanitarian aid into the area.

"The government of Sudan must stop the violence of the Janjaweed militias, and all parties must respect the cease-fire and allow the free movement of humanitarian workers and supplies," he added.