Embarrassing…

UN troops disarmed in Darfur

By William Wallis and Barney Jopson
FT, May 25 2008

The ambush and disarming of 60 United Nations peacekeepers in Darfur compounds a growing sense of international impotence in the face of rising tension in Sudan and a shift towards a harder line in Khartoum.

UN officials said Nigerian soldiers from the 9,000-strong UNAMID peacekeeping force were ambushed near the town of El Geneina by as yet unidentified assailants who took their weapons […].