Six members of the joint United Nations African Union peace mission in Sudan's Darfur region have been killed in an attack, a UN source has told the BBC.

Those who died included four Rwandan peacekeepers, one policeman from Ghana and another from Uganda.

State media reports that a convoy of 40 armoured vehicles attacked the peace force while on patrol in North Darfur.

The UN-AU mission has been struggling to contain the violence and has just 9,000 of the planned 26,000 troops.

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It is unclear who carried out the attack.

Last week, Burkina Faso's Foreign Minister Djibril Bassole was appointed as the new UN and AU Darfur peace envoy

Since the conflict began in Darfur five years ago, the UN estimates that some 300,000 have died and two million have fled their homes.

(BBC)

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