UNITED NATIONS, July 10 — UN humanitarians on Thursday voiced concern over escalating drone attacks and the spread of Cholera in Sudan’s Kordofan region.
On Tuesday, a drone reportedly struck a water truck in Hamrat Al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state, causing civilian casualties and disrupting access to essential water supplies. On Monday, a drone strike targeted a civilian vehicle near Al-Shaatut village, east of Jabrat Al-Sheikh, resulting in civilian casualties and damage, said the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in its latest humanitarian update issued on Thursday. Cholera also continues to spread across the Kordofan region, said the office. On Wednesday, humanitarian partners reported a suspected case in El Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan, where continued drone attacks have led to severe water shortages. Currently, the water supply can meet only 20 percent of the city’s needs, it said.
The World Health Organization reported that cholera response supplies were prepositioned in El Obeid and that a cholera treatment center was established in the city. El Obeid has recently been the center of several attacks in the region. OCHA said it has allocated more than 4 million U.S. dollars to partners to provide critical relief to communities in El Obeid, supporting food security, nutrition, health care, water and sanitation, protection services and mine action. OCHA calls once again for increased, timely and flexible funding. The 2026 Sudan humanitarian response plan, which requires about 2.9 billion dollars, is less than a third funded, with 930 million dollars received to date.
The UN Refugee Agency said that on July 1, a drone strike hit an aid truck on the road near Tendelti on the border between North Kordofan and West Nile states, which was carrying 50 tonnes of relief items. While the driver escaped, all the blankets, jerry cans, kitchen sets, sleeping mats, plastic sheets and solar lamps, intended for displaced families in Abu Jubeyha, South Kordofan state, were destroyed. The UN Children’s Fund said health supplies were delivered on Wednesday to the city of Abu Jubeyha, South Kordofan State, to support both emergency and routine health services for some 240,000 people across the area.
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