US EditionDrone Attack Destroys 16 Trucks Carrying UN Food to Sudan’s Famine-Hit Darfur Region
Drone strikes damaged three trucks in a 16-vehicle United Nations World Food Programme convoy delivering aid amid Sudan's civil war, worsening famine and humanitarian crisis in North Darfur, officials said.
- On Wednesday, a United Nations World Food Programme convoy was struck by a drone in North Darfur near Mellit, damaging three of its 16 trucks while offloading.
- Since April 2023, fighting between the RSF and the army has intensified, with paramilitary attacks and drone use increasing as the RSF seeks to consolidate control in the Darfur region.
- WFP spokespeople said all drivers and staff were safe after trucks from Chad carrying food to Alsayah village were attacked, with spokesperson Gift Watanasathorn urging, `Humanitarian staff and assets must never be a target`.
- The strike is the second in months to disrupt U.N. deliveries, with officials noting repeated blockades in North Darfur; mediators including the United States, Saudi Arabia and Egypt urged pauses in fighting to allow aid access.
- Nearly 25 million people face acute hunger, with more than a million in North Darfur on the brink of starvation and famine risk spreading to 17 areas in Darfur and Kordofan.
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Drone attack destroys 16 trucks carrying UN food to Sudan’s famine-hit Darfur region
A drone attack on a UN convoy set fire to all 16 trucks carrying desperately needed food to Sudan’s famine-hit North Darfur region and destroyed all the vehicles, the United Nations said Thursday.
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Drone attack destroys 16 trucks carrying UN food to Sudan's famine-hit Darfur region
The United Nations says a drone attack on a U.N. convoy set fire to all 16 trucks carrying desperately needed food to Sudan’s famine-hit North Darfur region and destroyed all the vehicles.
In the Sudanese province of Darfur, a WFP aid convoy is being attacked and the mediator states are calling for humanitarian ceasefires to protect the civilian population.
World Food Programme aid convoy attacked in Sudan’s Darfur
An aid convoy operated by the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) came under attack on Wednesday near the famine-hit Sudanese town of Mellit in North Darfur, the agency's spokesperson told AFP. The incident came as several countries including the United States, Saudi Arabia and neighbouring Egypt voiced alarm at the worsening hunger situation in war-torn Sudan, calling for pauses in fighting to let in more aid. Three of the 16 trucks in the convoy -…
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