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| Police 'Shot and Injured' Protesters in Sudan's Darfur |
| 2014-02-18 |
| [An Nahar] Sudanese police allegedly opened fire Monday on demonstrators from a camp for displaced people in the troubled Darfur region, wounding an unconfirmed number, peacekeepers said. "The initial unconfirmed report that UNAMID got was that two were maimed. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... we are still verifying the report," a public information officer with the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... -United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Mission in Darfur told Agence La Belle France Presse. She said the incident, involving residents of the Hamadiya displaced camp, happened on the edge of Zalingei, the capital of Central Darfur state. They are among almost two million people who the United Nations says are displaced in Darfur, from an 11-year-old war between the government and rebels, as well as from inter-Arab communal fighting which worsened last year. The protesters objected to a conference organized by the Darfur Regional Authority (DRA) that brought together various groups in an effort to end tribal conflicts and promote peace in the region. The DRA is a Darfur-wide government body set up to implement a limited peace deal in the region. |
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