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| Africa Horn |
| Gunmen seize Darfur refugees from UN peacekeepers |
| 2013-03-26 |
| [FRANCE24] Gunmen in Sudan's Darfur seized 31 displaced people travelling under peacekeeper escort to a refugee conference, the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... -UN mission to the region said on Monday. The mass abduction highlights insecurity for 1.4 million Darfuris uprooted by the region's decade-old conflict, and whose future is under discussion at the two-day conference which began on Monday. "A convoy of three commercial buses carrying 31 internally displaced persons (IDPs) and escorted by UNAMID peacekeepers was stopped by a large unidentified gang in military uniforms and seven jeep-mounted guns," UNAMID spokeswoman Aicha Elbasri said. "Despite UNAMID opposition, the gang forced the IDPs to an unknown location," said Elbasri, condemning the action of the gunnies. |
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