Kenyan aid worker shot dead in attack on UN compound in South Sudan

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Sudanese refugees walk past a UN vehicle in South Darfur. Sudanese gunmen on December 28, 2021 looted a WFP warehouse containing some 1,900 tonnes of food aid in Darfur.

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A Kenyan national working as an airdrop coordinator for the World Food Programme (WFP) was shot dead on Tuesday in Ngueny Boma in Nasir County, South Sudan, according to local officials.

South Sudan’s independent government agency, the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC), confirmed the incident in a formal letter to the WFP’s Nasir County director, describing the killing as tragic.