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N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) - Gunmen prevented humanitarian workers from moving traumatized, new arrivals from neighboring Sudan's Darfur region to a refugee camp inside Chad, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
It was unclear if the move was connected to Chad's threat on Monday to expel Sudanese refugees if they were not transferred elsewhere. The Chadian prime minister had blamed the influx of some 300,000 refugees for worsening tensions with Sudan.
Analysts had seen the threat as a ploy to encourage a speedy deployment of a European Union peacekeeping force being sent to protect more than half a million refugees in a volatile triangle in Central Africa where the borders of Chad, Sudan and Central African Republic meet.
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