Sudan: Dafur women saved from attempted abduction

A group of Darfuri women was saved from the hands of bandits who are believed to have been on a mission to take them hostages or possible war slaves. The Un reports said troops from the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur, tasked with protecting civilians and suppressing the bloody conflict in the region, foiled an attempted abduction of several women who had strayed outside a makeshift camp in the war-torn western flank of Sudan.