(AFP) – 1 hour ago
KHARTOUM — Gunmen abducted more than 40 peacekeepers in Sudan’s Darfur region before freeing all but two of them a day later, the United Nations and African Union mission said on Saturday.
“The convoy was captured on Friday and taken to an unknown destination. This morning the members of the mission were released. They are in a secure place, but two members are missing,” mission spokesman Kemal Saiki said.
“We don’t know who is responsible for this act,” he said, adding the peacekeepers were to assess fresh fighting between government forces and rebels in Darfur’s central Jebel Marra plateau.