Three UN World Food Program (WFP) staff were killed in an airstrike in Sudan on Thursday eveningprogram director Cindy McCain announced Friday. She added that WFP will continue its work in Sudan. TASR informs about it according to the report of the AFP agency.
Victims of the attack in the city of Jábús they are in the state of Blue Nile head of WFP field office, program officer and constable. Their names and country of origin have not been released. One of them he died on the spotwhile the other two died during transport to the hospital.
McCain said the WFP is working to clarify the incident. “I demand a thorough investigation of the case and that the perpetrators be held accountable,” she declared. She added that victims “helped save lives on the front lines of one of the world’s biggest hunger crises”.
At the same time, the head of the WFP confirmed that the organization remains committed to providing humanitarian aid throughout Sudan. “WFP will stay here and deliver vital food and nutrition aid. That’s what our fallen colleagues would have wanted,” McCain said. She also called on world leaders to stand up for better protection of humanitarian workers. She stated that in 2024 their a record number perished.
The WFP warned on Thursday that Sudan is facing the biggest hunger crisis in the world today, which concerns 1.7 million people. In Sudan from in 2023, war is raging between the army led by the country’s de facto leader, General Abdal Fattáh Burhán a by the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF), which is led by Burhán’s former deputy Muhammad Hamdan Daklu.
