Five male tribal leaders and a woman, all believed to be members of the SLA, sought protection from UNAMID.
The armed men then began shooting, killing a peacekeeper from Bangladesh around 3:15 a.m. and wounding another, according to UNAMID.
The political head of UNAMID, Rodolphe Adada, a bow-tied Congolese diplomat who also stepped down last week, has been largely ineffective.
Chris Cycmanick, head of media relations for UNAMID, told CNN that many people had fled Kutum as well as the Kassab camp.
At the start of this year, more than 9, 000 UNAMID peacekeeping troops were deployed to the region to address the fighting and humanitarian suffering.
They were treated for ailments including respiratory infections, trauma and malaria, as well as injuries that occurred during the attacks on the camp, UNAMID said.
But with only about 10, 000 often ineffectual troops and police, well short of the 26, 000 that were promised by the end of this year, UNAMID remains pretty impotent.
"We are afraid to return to the camp, because armed men may come back to attack us, " Fatima Adam Badaui, a woman from the Kassab camp, told UNAMID.
The United Nations African Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), the peacekeepers who have been mandated by the Security Council and the African Union to prevent the violence, remain based at el-Fasher, the capital of Darfur.
"The situation there is very bad, houses and shelters are crowded, the health situation is getting worse and they lack sufficient food, " said Altheir Ismail Ali, a community leader in the camp quoted by UNAMID.
The village of Saraf Jidad, Sudan, was attacked three times in January, while the villages of Sirbal, Silea and Abu Suruj were attacked within hours of each other on February 8, UNAMID said in the report.
Conditions for the refugees now in Kutum are poor, with the majority of those displaced from the camp living in open areas without basic services, such as clean water, food, sanitation facilities and health care, UNAMID said Friday.
As we stood at Al Geneina airport waiting to leave a week later I was told just a couple of miles away an armed UNAMID peacekeeping patrol had been ambushed the day before by 60 armed men on horse back.
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