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Article: 5 African Union troops are killed by rebels in Darfur

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DAKAR, Senegal -- Five African Union peacekeepers were killed in a brazen rebel ambush in Darfur less than a mile from their base along Sudan's border with Chad on Sunday evening, the African Union said Monday.

It was the deadliest attack on the beleaguered African Union force since it was deployed to monitor a shaky cease-fire agreement in 2004. The motive for the ambush appeared to be theft -- the rebels took one of the peacekeepers' trucks. Reinforcements killed three of the attackers, African Union officials said.

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