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U.N. associate spokesperson Daniela Gross told reporters that
all drivers and personnel traveling with the World Food Program
convoy are safe.
Gross said it was not yet clear who was responsibility for
Wednesday’s attack, the second in the past three months to
prevent a U.N. convoy from delivering to North Dafur. In early
June, a convoy from the World Food Program and UNICEF was
attacked while awaiting clearance to proceed to North Darfur’s
besieged capital, el-Fasher, killing five people and injuring
several others.
Sudan plunged into conflict in April 2023, when violence sparked
by long-simmering tensions between its military and paramilitary
leaders erupted in the capital, Khartoum, and spread to other
regions, including western Darfur. Some 40,000 people have been
killed and nearly 13 million displaced, U.N. agencies say.
Nearly 25 million people are experiencing acute hunger, Gross
said.
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and their allies announced
in late June that they had formed a parallel government in areas
they control, mainly in the vast Darfur region where allegations
of war crimes and crimes against humanity are being
investigated.
The RSF has encircled el-Fasher, where the U.N. says people are
facing starvation. It is the only capital the paramilitary
forces don't hold in Darfur, which is comprised of five states.
Over a year ago, famine was declared in the Zamzam displacement
camp in North Darfur. The risk of famine has since spread to 17
areas in Darfur and the Kordofan region, which is adjacent to
North Darfur and west of Khartoum, the U.N. says.
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