A group of Egyptian policemen left Cairo Wednesday for Sudan to participate in the peacekeeping mission in Darfur.
The 65 policemen will join the United Nations and African Union forces working there.
The police left on board a military plane for Al-Fasher Airport in Darfur, Cairo International Airport security sources told state-run news agency MENA. They had large amounts of medicine for diseases such as malaria and yellow fever.
Egyptian police have participated in the peacekeeping effort since August 2004.
Egypt says it has 2,357 individuals working for the Darfur peacekeeping mission, as well as 1,507 personnel in South Sudan.
Translated from MENA
