A peacekeeper with the joint United Nations-African Union force was killed and three others were injured in Sudan’s western Darfur region on Wednesday when their patrol was ambushed, the United Nations said. The peacekeeping operation in Darfur is huge, and violence in the region has subsided since reaching a peak in 2003 and 2004. But rebel and tribal fighting still plagues the territory, as do bandits. Insurgents in Darfur, most of them African, took up arms against the Arab-dominated central government in 2003, accusing the authorities of neglecting the remote territory. The government in Khartoum mobilized troops and allied Arab tribes to quell the rebellion, and the United Nations estimates 300,000 people have died in the conflict.
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