Three drivers from the UN World Food Program (WFP) have been killed by bandits in separate attacks over the past week in Sudan’s war-stricken western Darfur region and in its south. The attacks highlight the security dangers in Sudan, where on March 24 a driver working for WFP was shot dead and his assistant seriously wounded in South Darfur state. On March 22, two drivers on their way to the oil-rich Abyei state were stabbed to death in south Sudan by six assailants, WFP said. In other news, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has begun assisting the Government of South Sudan in its prison reform process in the agency’s first project in the region as it emerges from a decades-long civil war. (Reuters, UN News Service)
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