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UN peacekeepers start deployment in Sudan

The United Nations announced in Khartoum Sunday it has started deploying the first group of its peacekeeping force in Sudan, Sudan News Agency (SUNA) reported.

Radia Achouri, spokeswoman for the UN mission in Sudan, was quoted as saying that the first group of the UN force was 30-strong Nepalese out of total of 225, who arrived in Kassala town in eastern Sudan earlier in the day.

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