According to the U.N. peace-keeping mission in Darfur, armed men seized two Jordanian police advisers on Saturday morning .
The Jordanian government confirmed their abduction on Sunday and said that according to its information the two were unharmed
The two officers were walking to a UNAMID (United Nations Assistance Mission in Darfur) transport dispatch point, which was about 300 feet away from their residence in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur State, when they were blocked by three individuals, according to the United Nations.
Local Sudanese authorities and the mission are investigating the incident, but they said they were unable to determine the motivation for the abduction.
“The perpetrators seized the peacekeepers at gunpoint and sped off,” stated the mission in a press release.
The incident is the most recent in a series of attacks against the mission’s personnel in recent months. In July, seven peacekeepers on patrol in West Darfur were injured, and in June, three soldiers were killed and one was seriously wounded.
UNAMID was established in July 2007 to protect civilians and put an end to violence in the Darfur region, where almost seven years of fighting has killed more than 300,000 people and driven 2.7 million people from their homes.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir recently warned the mission and other international aid agencies that they could be deported if they fail to respect local authorities.
Al-Bashir himself was indicted last year by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in his role in the seven-year Darfur conflict. In July this year, the ICC issued a second warrant for his arrest, this time on the stronger charge of genocide.
He is accused of arming death squad militia, known as the Janjaweed, to carry out ethnic cleansing of the Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa communities in Sudan.
