Radio Dabanga (Hilversum)

Sudan: 'Decade of Darfur Violence Affects More Than 250 Aid Workers' - AWSD

1 August 2013

Khartoum — The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has highlighted records of more than 250 aid workers who have been "affected by violence" in Darfur in the last decade.

OCHA's latest Humanitarian Report cites the Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD), that shows that since 2003, 47 aid workers have been killed, 139 injured and 71 abducted in Darfur.

The latest examples include five abducted aid workers who were released last week after 10 days in captivity. Just this week, gunmen threatened the staff of the Garsila office in Central Darfur of the International Medical Corps and stole the payroll.

The recent inter-militia violence in Nyala, capital of South Darfur claimed the lives of two World Vision International employees, critically injuring another, while in June, an NGO doctor was killed in a militia attack on Nertiti camp in Central Darfur.

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