African Union Mission in Sudan - Peacekeeper Fatalities

Peacekeeper Fatalities

• Three Nigerian soldiers were killed in an ambush near Kourabashi on October 8, 2005, two AU civilian contractors were also killed in the attack.
• A Rwandan soldier was killed in a vehicle accident on October 20, 2005.
• One Nigerian soldier was killed when his patrol was attacked on the road between the AU camp and the town of Misteria on May 29, 2006. A Rwandan soldier was electrocuted on the same day.
• Two Rwandan soldiers were killed in an attack on a fuel convoy traveling from El Nahud to El Fasher in the Kutum area on August 19, 2006.
• A Rwandan soldier was killed in a vehicle accident on October 26, 2006.
• Two Nigerian soldiers were abducted in El Fasher on December 10, 2006, one was later released but the other was not and is presumed dead.
• One Indian soldier was killed while escorting a de-mining team near Magwe on January 27, 2007.
• An unidentified soldier was killed in an ambush in the Kassab refugee camp on February 1, 2007.
• A Rwandan soldier died of malaria on February 15, 2007.
• Two Nigerian soldiers were killed in an ambush in Graida on March 6, 2007.
• Five Senegalese soldiers were killed while guarding a watering point near Chad.
• One Rwandan soldier was killed in an ambush in Sortoni on April 10, 2007.
• One Ghanaian soldier was killed in an ambush in Nyala on April 15, 2007.
• An Egyptian soldier was killed after robbers broke into a house near al-Fasher May 26, 2007.
• Seven Nigerian, one Malian, one Senegalese and one Batswana soldier were killed when their base was overrun by 1,000 rebels in Haskanita on September 30, 2007.