NAIROBI, 12 April (IRIN) - The UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) and the African Union (AU) have strongly condemned the destruction of a village in the western Sudanese state of South Darfur by armed militias on Thursday.

In a joint statement released on Friday, Baba Gana Kingibe, the AU's ambassador to Sudan, and Jan Pronk, the UN secretary-general's special representative for Sudan said: "We learnt with utter shock and disbelief of the relentless day-long attack on [the village of] Khor Abeche by armed militia of the Miseriyya tribe of Niteaga."

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