The United States strongly condemned a drone attack on a World Food Program (WFP) truck carrying life-saving food to displaced people fleeing atrocities and famine in Darfur, emphasizing that targeting humanitarian workers is “unacceptable and a blatant violation of international humanitarian law.”
The U.S. Special Adviser on Sudan stated that this was the sixth such attack on WFP operations in Sudan in 2025, warning that the use of starvation as a weapon of war has become a clear pattern by both parties, who continue to block food access to the hungry.
The statement emphasized that humanitarian workers and their property “must never be targeted,” calling on the warring forces in Sudan to cease hostilities immediately and allow safe, unhindered humanitarian access to millions in need.
The attack comes amid one of the worst humanitarian crises globally, with rising assaults on relief convoys and international warnings of a potential famine unless humanitarian corridors are secured urgently.
