CAIRO – An attack on an aid convoy in Sudan’s Darfur region left five people dead and several wounded, the United Nations said Tuesday, and the warring parties in the northeast African nation traded blame for the attack.
The attack on the 15-truck convoy carrying desperately needed food and nutrition supplies came Monday night near the Rapid Support Forces-controlled town of Koma in North Darfur province. It was trying to reach besieged el-Fasher city, according to a joint statement from the World Food Program and UNICEF. Both agencies called for an investigation into the attack.
“This was the first U.N. humanitarian convoy that was going to make it to el-Fasher in over one year,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York.
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