Call for urgent international action to curb RSF attacks on humanitarian workers
The Sudan Doctor’s Network has reported that at least three aid workers have been killed and four others wounded in a drone attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on an aid convoy in Sudan’s South Kordofan state.
The RSF and its ally, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North targetted a convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian supplies, making its way to the cities of Kadugli and Dilling on Thursday, Al-Jazeera and AFP have reported.
Thursday’s incident is the second in less than a month, following the shelling of a United Nations aid convoy in the town of Al-Rahad.
The Sudan Doctors Network urged the “international community, the United Nations, and human rights organisations to exert urgent and effective pressure on the leadership of the Rapid Support Forces to ensure the protection of aid convoys and their workers, to open safe and sustainable humanitarian corridors, and to hold those responsible for targeting aid accountable”.
In a social media post it strongly condemned the deliberate targetting of humanitarian convoys, describing it as a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and of all norms prohibiting attacks on humanitarian workers.
The network said that this attack marked the “second such incident in less than a month, following the shelling of a United Nations aid convoy in the town of Al-Rahad,” adding: “this dangerous escalation threatens the safety of humanitarian operations and further exacerbates civilian suffering”.