Sudan: AU Stresses Need to Investigate Attacks On UNAMID in Darfur

28 April 2015

Addis Ababa — The chairwoman of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, has expressed her deep concerns by the attacks on Unamid peacekeepers last Thursday and Friday in Kass, South Darfur.

Unknown attackers opened fire on Unamid troops on Thursday evening at a water well in Kass, 85 km northwest of Nyala. Four of the assailants were killed in the ensuing gunfight, and one was injured. Two peacekeepers sustained injuries too. On Friday morning, a Unamid patrol was attacked near the mission's base in Kass. Four peacekeepers were wounded, a spokesman for the mission told Radio Dabanga.

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