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UN Security Council extends Darfur mission ... peacekeeper has been killed in an ambush by dozens of armed bandits in the Sudanese region of Darfur, a UN official has said.
The Nigerian peacekeeper was killed on Monday during an exchange of fire between a UN patrol and 40-60 bandits north of Nyala, the official said.
The BBC's Amber Henshaw in the capital, Khartoum, said it was not immediately clear who had launched the attack.
An estimated 300,000 people have died in five years of conflict in Darfur.
The killing of the peacekeeper comes amid a recent rise in the number of attacks against the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, our correspondent says.
The situation on the ground in Darfur has become increasingly complicated and anarchic as more and more groups take advantage of the lawless situation there, she reports.
(BBC)
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