KHARTOUM - Chadian planes have bombed Chadian rebel positions near the capital of Sudan’s Western Darfur state, a UN report said of the second such reported cross-border incursion in two weeks. Six Chadian ‘opposition members’ were killed in the attacks on villages in Darfur early Sunday, said the report seen by Reuters on Monday.Rodolphe Adada, head of the African Union-United Nations force for Darfur, said he was watching growing tensions along the Chad-Sudan border with ‘deep concern’ and said they could negatively affect the deployment of the long-awaited joint Darfur peacekeeping mission. In a statement Adada said he was ‘concerned that if the situation is not immediately brought under control, great numbers of internally displaced persons and refugees will likely be the first victims of any further escalations.’
The UN statement said on Jan. 6 at approximately 4:30 a.m. ‘Chadian air carried out air attack on the villages of Goker and Wadi Radi 35 km south of Geneina. It has been confirmed that the Chadian air force bombed these two locations killing six Chadian opposition members and injuring four.’