 Two African Union peacekeeping soldiers from Nigeria were killed in an ambush Saturday in Sudan's Darfur region, a senior AU official said, in the mission's first deaths since deploying to the volatile area last year. Two civilian contractors attached to the peacekeeping team were also killed in the attack near Kourabishi and three African Union soldiers were wounded, the acting head of the mission, Jean-Baptiste Natama, said in a telephone interview. Natama offered no further details and did not say who was behind the ambush. The attack occurred as Javier Solana, the European Union security affairs chief, made a brief visit to Darfur.
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