United Nations Soldier in Sudan Is Slain A United Nations peacekeeper was killed on Friday in Sudan's main oil region when shells struck a logistics base, a United Nations spokesman said. The soldier was from Ethiopia, the spokesman, Kieran Dwyer, said, adding that two other Ethiopian soldiers had been wounded. He said the base in Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan State, was used to support the peacekeeping force deployed in the Abyei region disputed by Sudan and South Sudan.