The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has said that five of its volunteers were killed in Sudan and three others are missing.
The five volunteers were killed on October 27 in the city of Bara in the central state of North Kordofan while distributing food and wearing official vests, it said. It did not give details on how they were killed or assign responsibility.
Aid workers also raised concerns that only a trickle of the people believed to have fled a paramilitary force, Rapid Support Forces (RSF), that seized a city in Sudan’s Darfur region have reached safety, as hundreds reportedly have been killed in the attack and while making their escape.
Sudan's paramilitary RSF, which have been locked in a civil war with the Sudanese army since April 2023, took over the strategic city of Bara earlier this week.
Activists and rights groups have alleged that recent RSF gains in central Sudan and in Darfur have been accompanied by hundreds of civ...
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