A soldier with the UN-led peacekeeping mission in Sudan's Darfur region was critically wounded in a refugee camp after children pelted him with stones, the mission said on Friday.
"One soldier was critically injured in the Hamidiya near Zalingi in western Darfur," the African Union-United Nations mission (UNAMID) said in a statement.
In November, a Nigerian soldier was wounded after gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles attacked UNAMID soldiers in Darfur.
Eleven UNAMID soldiers have died since the mission launched operations on December 31 last year.
UNAMID is planned to be the largest UN peacekeeping force in the world with an estimated strength of 26,000.
However only around 9,078 soldiers and 2,282 police have deployed so far. The mission also still needs 24 helicopters so it can patrol the vast region.
UN officials say up to 300,000 people have died and more than 2.2 million have been displaced since Darfur ethnic rebels took up arms against the Arab-dominated government in 2003, complaining of
discrimination.
Khartoum puts the number of dead at 10,000.
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