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Eight gunmen attacked a group of international peacekeepers on patrol in Darfur on Tuesday, killing one of them.

Ambassador Arthur C. I. Mbafeno of Nigeria, which has peacekeeping troops in Sierra Leone, called for "a massive information campaign to educate U.N. peacekeepers on the H.I.V./AIDS pandemic before they are deployed to the field".

The UN has been slow to get its peacekeepers on the ground.

Another group of rioters blocked peacekeepers on a nearby road, the radio said.

As of Oct. 10, there were 10,527 Unamid peacekeepers on the ground in Darfur.

UN peacekeepers on the Lebanese side of the border appealed for "maximum restraint" to prevent casualties.

But it did not end the attacks on civilians, or on United Nations peacekeepers already on duty or on African troops from a regional force called Ecomog.

"You saw the picture in the paper today of Liberians carrying a Nigerian peacekeeper on their shoulders," said the diplomat.

Great Britain assumed the role of peacekeeper on the world's oceans, and the Royal Navy was the instrument by which the Pax Britannica was kept.

The attacks on United Nations peacekeepers occurred on Monday and Tuesday in two north-central towns, Makeni and Magburaka, and in Kailahun in eastern Sierra Leone.

Whereas in other missions, the U.N. was able to rely on its own peacekeepers — or on local authorities — for intelligence and protection, in Iraq it was wholly dependent on the Coalition.