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A drone onslaught connected an assistance convoy successful Sudan's North Kordofan authorities killed 1 idiosyncratic and wounded respective others, the UN's humanitarian bureau said, with section civilian organisations blaming paramilitaries.
The convoy was headed connected Friday (February 6, 2026) to an country adjacent El-Obeid, a metropolis nether Army power but encircled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for a year.
The Army and the RSF person been astatine warfare since April 2023, with the struggle sidesplitting tens of thousands of people, displacing millions much and triggering 1 of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator successful Sudan, Denise Brown, said she came crossed the aftermath of the strike, including burning assistance trucks, aft visiting El-Obeid.
She said she was "deeply concerned" by the onslaught and called for the extortion of humanitarian personnel, assets and supplies.
Emergency Lawyers, an autarkic organisation documenting warfare crimes successful Sudan, besides said the convoy, contracted by the World Food Programme, had been attacked, and accused the RSF of carrying retired the strike.
Sudan Doctors Network, a section civilian radical documenting atrocities, besides blamed the RSF. It said 3 radical were wounded successful the attack, which it called "a flagrant usurpation of planetary humanitarian instrumentality and amounts to a full-fledged warfare crime".
"It undermines humanitarian efforts to present life-saving assistance to civilians affected by the war," it added.
More than 21 cardinal radical — astir fractional of Sudan's colonisation — look precocious levels of acute nutrient insecurity, according to the United Nations.
Fighting successful Sudan is present concentrated successful the Kordofan region, aft the RSF took power of Darfur to the west. El-Obeid lies connected the main roadworthy linking Darfur with the superior Khartoum.
