
NYALA, Sudan, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Six people were killed and 28 wounded after men on camels attacked a civilian convoy in Sudan's Darfur region, a U.N. and African peacekeeping mission said.
The convoy was traveling between the South Darfur state capital Nyala and the North Darfur state capital al-Fashir, the U.N. African Union Mission in Darfur said.
The attackers are believed to have been members of a janjaweed militia, said the mission, created by the U.N. Security Council last year to bring stability to the war-torn region while peace talks on a final settlement continue.
Janjaweed is a blanket term used to describe nomadic, Arabic-speaking African gunmen in Darfur and eastern Chad who the United Nations says generally have a camel herder background.
The janjaweed, blamed for terrorizing local Darfur villages on camels and horseback, are accused of trying to "cleanse" black Africans from Darfur, the BBC reported.
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