Sudan’s Port Sudan junta has seized 370 trucks carrying humanitarian aid bound for war-torn Darfur, a local aid official said Wednesday.
Seventy trucks were stopped in the Dabba area of Northern State, while another 300 were held at Port Sudan, the official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
The seizures came days after General al-Burhan’s army (SAF) aircraft bombed an aid convoy near Al-Koma, North Darfur, killing six civilian drivers, according to the official and local activists.
Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan has publicly said the SAF will block assistance from reaching Darfur and neighboring Kordofan, a policy critics say is aimed at using hunger as a weapon against areas held by rival forces.
Darfur, where more than 10 camps shelter people displaced since the region’s 2003 conflict, faces acute shortages of food and medicine as fighting between the SAF and the Rapid Support Forces grinds on.
