{"id":1128,"date":"2026-02-20T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:08:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:08:54","slug":"three-aid-workers-killed-in-sudan-drone-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/three-aid-workers-killed-in-sudan-drone-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Three aid workers killed in Sudan drone attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Call for urgent international action to curb RSF attacks on humanitarian workers <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Sudan Doctor&#8217;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\u2019s South Kordofan state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The RSF and its ally, the Sudan People&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Three aid workers killed, 4 wounded in RSF drone attack in Sudan\u2019s Kordofan <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hHqjiCkFSg\">https:\/\/t.co\/hHqjiCkFSg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AlJazeera?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AlJazeera<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sudan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Sudan<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Eye on The Horn (@eyeonSudan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eyeonSudan\/status\/2024756551895192028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sudan Doctors Network urged the \u201cinternational 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\u201d.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/author\/al_jazeera_staff_150119130629458\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The network said that this attack marked the \u201csecond such incident in less than a month, following the shelling of a United Nations aid convoy in the town of Al-Rahad,\u201d adding: \u201cthis dangerous escalation threatens the safety of humanitarian operations and further exacerbates civilian suffering\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call for urgent international action to curb RSF attacks on humanitarian workers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[186,21,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-1128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa","8":"tag-humanitarian-aid","9":"tag-rsf","10":"tag-sudan"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/1129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}