AU says U.N. officer killed by robbers in Darfur
Source: Reuters
KHARTOUM, May 26 (Reuters) - A U.N. officer deployed to Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region to support African Union peacekeepers there has been killed by robbers at his residence in el-Fasher, an African Union spokesman said on Saturday. The spokesman said the officer was an Egyptian national deployed to Darfur as part of a United Nations light support package to assist roughly 7,000 African Union peacekeepers trying to quell violence in Sudan's west.
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