From ADNKronos:West Darfur, 12 Dec. (AKI) - Unidentified gunmen have shot dead the tribal leader of a refugee camp in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region. It was the latest in a series of attacks on the 2.7 million people uprooted by over five years of fighting between the government and rebels, the United Nations reported late on Thursday. Around 300,000 people have died in the conflict.
A patrol from the joint United Nations-African Union mission in Darfur dispatched to Camp Hassa Hissa in West Darfur on receiving reports of the attack, confirmed that the camp leader had been killed but found the camp to be calm.
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