The warring parties in Sudans civil war have traded blame for an attack on a UN World Food Programme convoy trying to bring aid to an area of North Darfur where fighting and blockades have led to deadly hunger.
The convoy was hit north of the city of al-Fashir, the armys only holdout in the wider Darfur region where an estimated 300 000 remaining residents have been subject to a long siege by the rival Rapid Support Forces as fighting rages.
Aid has frequently come under fire and been blockaded by both sides in the war, which erupted from a power struggle in April 2023 and has caused what the UN has called the worlds biggest humanitarian crisis.
