Peacekeeper Wounded in Darfur Attack

Unidentified gunmen fired on the joint U.N./African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur on Monday, wounding a commander.

The attack occurred in Ardamata, near El Geneina, the capital of    West Darfur, where the peacekeeping force’s camp is located. A commander from the Nigerian police unit was shot in the leg and taken to the mission hospital, where he was in stable condition, according to news reports.

Thirty-seven peacekeepers have died in Darfur since the joint mission deployed at the end of 2007 to relieve the beleaguered African Union force that had been in the region.

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