5 killed in attack on UN food convoy heading to Sudan hunger hotspot
Aid has frequently come under crossfire in the two-year-old war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces
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Time of India
3 days ago
- Time of India
Sudan: 5 killed in attack on aid convoy, UN says
Five aid workers were killed in an attack on a convoy in Sudan, preventing food deliveries to families who face starvation in the war-torn Darfur region, UN agencies said on Tuesday. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now The attack on the 15-truck convoy happened Monday night near the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)-controlled town of Koma in North Darfur province. "Five members of the convoy were killed and several more people were injured. Multiple trucks were burned, and critical humanitarian supplies were damaged," Unicef and the World Food Programme (WFP) said in a joint statement. Both agencies called for an investigation into the attack, which they said was a violation of international humanitarian law. "It is devastating that the supplies have not reached the vulnerable children and families they were intended to," the statement added. The agencies did not specify who was behind the attack. The UN said those killed and injured were Sudanese contractors working for WFP and Unicef. Warring parties trade blame for attack: The aid agencies said the convoy was attacked while trying to access el-Fasher city, which is one of the last strongholds of the Sudanese military in Darfur. Since 2024, el-Fasher has been under siege by RSF forces. The trucks had traveled more than 1,800 kilometres (1,100 miles) from the eastern city of Port Sudan on the Red Sea. "This was the first UN humanitarian convoy that was going to make it to el-Fasher in over one year," UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters at UN headquarters in New York. The RSF claimed in a statement the convoy was hit by a military aircraft in a "pre-planned attack." Tired of too many ads? go ad free now However, Sudan's military-led government rejected this and said in a statement that aid trucks were "treacherously attacked by assault drones operated by the rebel Rapid Support Forces militia." Neither of the reports could be independently verified. Famine ravaging Sudan: Since fighting between RSF paramilitary group and Sudan's military-controlled government began two years ago, Sudan has been engulfed by what the UN has called the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with more than a million people on the brink of starvation in the North Darfur state alone. The fighting has killed tens of thousands of people, uprooted 13 million people and created dire hunger and displacement crises. Four million people have fled across Sudan's borders, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday.
Deccan Herald
3 days ago
- Deccan Herald
5 killed in attack on UN food convoy heading to Sudan hunger hotspot
Aid has frequently come under crossfire in the two-year-old war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces
India Today
4 days ago
- India Today
UN convoy on way to delivering food into Sudan's al-Fashir attacked
A UN convoy delivering food into Sudan's al-Fashir in North Darfur came under attack overnight, a spokesperson for the UN children's agency told Reuters on Tuesday, adding that initial reports indicated "multiple casualties"."We have received information about a convoy with WFP and UNICEF trucks being attacked last night while positioned in Al Koma, North Darfur, waiting for approval to proceed to al-Fashir," UNICEF spokesperson Eva Hinds said in response to did not say who was responsible or elaborate on the reported casualties. Aid has frequently come under the crossfire in the two-year-old war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which has left more than half the population facing crisis levels of a statement, the RSF's aid commission blamed an airstrike by the army, as did local activists. The army did not respond to a request for Koma is controlled by the RSF, and earlier this week saw a drone strike that claimed several civilian lives, according to local conditions have previously been reported in al-Fashir, the capital of North Darfur. The fighting and barriers to the delivery of aid put in place by both sides have cut off attack is the latest of several assaults on aid in recent days. It follows the repeated shelling of UN World Food Programme premises in al-Fashir by the RSF and an attack on El Obeid hospital in North Kordofan that killed several medics late last Watch
