Five aid workers were killed, and several more people were injured, in an attack on a convoy in Sudan, preventing food deliveries to families who face starvation. The attack on the convoy happened Monday night near the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)-controlled town of Koma in North Darfur. Multiple trucks were burned, and critical humanitarian supplies were damaged. As is standard with their humanitarian convoys, the route was shared in advance, and parties on the ground were notified and aware of the location of the trucks.
KHARTOUM JUNE 4: At least five killed in attack on aid convoy in Sudan’s western Darfur region, UN says. Five aid workers were killed, and several more people were injured, 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.
Both agencies called for an investigation into the attack, which they said was a violation of international humanitarian law.
The attack on the convoy happened Monday night near the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)-controlled town of Koma in North Darfur province. Multiple trucks were burned, and critical humanitarian supplies were damaged,” UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP) said in a joint statement.
The convoy, made up of 15 trucks, was attempting to reach children and families in famine-affected El Fasher with life-saving food and nutrition supplies. Following months of escalating violence, hundreds of thousands of people in El Fasher – many of them children – are at high risk of malnutrition and starvation if supplies do not urgently reach them.
As is standard with their humanitarian convoys, the route was shared in advance, and parties on the ground were notified and aware of the location of the trucks. Under international humanitarian law, aid convoys must be protected, and parties have the obligation to allow and facilitate rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief for civilians in need.
This latest incident follows a series of attacks on humanitarian operations over the past two years, including last week’s bombardment of WFP’s premises in El Fasher which damaged a workshop, office building and clinic.
