Five dead after UN food convoy attacked in Sudan

FIVE aid workers were killed and several others injured in a tragic attack on a UN convoy delivering critical supplies to a famine-stricken Sudanese city, with uncertainties surrounding the attackers' identity as both the Sudanese army and its paramilitary allies accused each other of responsibility. A UN statement emphasized the need for an immediate end to attacks on humanitarian convoys under international law, while the joint operation between the World Food Programme (WFP) and Unicef had traveled over 1,100 miles from Port Sudan to negotiate access to El Fasher in Darfur, which has been besieged by Rapid Support Forces forces for more than a year.