Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon devoted much of his first days on the job to the three-year conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, which has killed more than 200,000 people and displaced 2.5 million. Since he took over from Kofi Annan on Jan. 1, the new U.N. chief has been holding daily meetings on Darfur in effort to find a peaceful solution. On Wednesday, he met the new U.N. special envoy for Darfur, Jan Eliasson. On Thursday, he chaired what he called "a good meeting" with the newly formed Darfur Task Force comprising top U.N. officials. On Friday, Ban will meet with Eliasson, a former Swedish foreign minister and General Assembly president, and the African Union's special envoy for Darfur, Salim Ahmed Salim, who was flying to New York to attend the session. Ban told reporters on his first day of work Tuesday that he would put "my highest attention" on Darfur. He announced that his first overseas trip will be to attend the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Jan. 29-30, where he hopes to meet Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir. "By engaging myself in the diplomatic process, I hope that we will be able to resolve peacefully, as soon as possible, this very serious issue," Ban said.