Please see the article below and pray for our Christian brothers in Sudan. I will try to post more shortly....
3 humanitarian workers wounded when World Vision international aid is ambushed in Darfur
ASSOCIATED PRESS
6:41 a.m. September 22, 2007
EL FASHER, Sudan – Armed men ambushed an aid convoy in Darfur, wounding three humanitarian (World Vision) workers, the U.N. mission to Sudan said Saturday.
The convoy from U.S.-based World Vision International, which included eight staff members, was attacked some 25 miles south of Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state, on Thursday, the U.N. said. All three wounded aid workers were Sudanese. Two were shot in the head and one in the arm, World Vision said. Two are in stable condition, and one is serious condition, the group said. It did not provide more information.
The attackers have not been identified but the U.N. statement said Arabtribes have been regularly clashing in the area. “This is a horrifying and brutal attack on aid staff who are working to save the lives of Sudanesepeople,” U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes said.
Attacks against humanitarian workers have increased by 150 percent from June 2006 to June 2007, the U.N. says. Since the start of the year, 105 humanitarian workers were temporarily taken hostage and 66 were physically or sexually assaulted in Darfur, the U.N. says. Meanwhile, 61 convoys have been ambushed and looted, and 98 vehicles hijacked.
Darfur hosts the world's largest ongoing humanitarian effort with some 14,000 aid workers including 1,000 international deployed to help the region's 2.5 million refugees. A hybrid force of 26,000 U.N. and African Union peacekeepers is due in Darfur by Dec. 31 to try to end four years of bloodshed that have already killed more than 200,000 people.
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