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3 Ethiopian peacekeepers killed in Darfur attack
2014-10-17 09:52
Khartoum - Three Ethiopian peacekeepers were killed on Thursday in an
attack in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, the joint UN-African Union
mission said, the latest deaths in increasingly dangerous peace operations
in Africa.
They were guarding a well in Karma, North Darfur state, when they were
attacked by gunmen, who fled afterwards, the United Nations-African Union
Mission in Darfur said.
Two of them were killed in the attack and the third, gravely wounded, died
later.
Unamid was deployed in late 2007 to help end bloodshed among militias,
rebel forces and gangs in Darfur.
In New York, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said "this has been a bloody October for
UN peacekeeping.
"In Darfur, Mali and the Central African Republic, we have lost 14
peacekeepers in hostile acts, nearly one per day."
A wave of attacks in northern Mali has killed 31 peacekeepers since July
2013, while a Pakistani serving in the Central African Republic was killed
in an ambush last week.
Ten UN peacekeepers have been injured in Bangui since Friday in attacks on
their patrols.
"Blue helmets must be allowed to undertake their life-saving work without
interference", Ban told reporters at UN headquarters in New York.
The UN's 130 000 troops, police and civilian staff serving in missions
worldwide are being drawn into more complex conflicts while being tasked
with enforcing fragile peace deals.
AFP
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