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BBC News says that a consortium of relief groups is reporting that members of the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur are poorly equipped to protect civilians in the strife-ridden region.
"It says that six months after the mission began, only about a third of the 26,000 personnel promised had been deployed. It also says the mission is still critically short of basic equipment such as helicopters and armoured vehicles," the broadcaster says. "Some of the soldiers from the former African force were so badly supplied that they were reduced to putting blue plastic bags over their helmets to indicate that they now worked for the U.N., the report says."
The United Nations says more than 300,000 people have been killed, and another 2.2 million displaced, in Darfur since 2003.
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