UN: Sudan Turns Back Team Probing Alleged Mass Rape

United Nations peacekeepers say Sudan's military has denied them access to an area of Darfur where some 200 girls and women were allegedly raped last weekend. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric says personnel from the U.N.-African Union mission in Darfur (UNAMID) were turned back at a checkpoint when they tried to go to the North Darfur village of Tabit on Tuesday. He said peacekeepers want to visit the area. "The African Union joint U.N. mission in Darfur is calling on the...

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