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WFP worker for South Sudan killed in Kenya

May 9, 2008 (LOKICHOGGIO, Kenya) – Unknown gunmen shot dead the head of WFP’s office in the northwestern Kenyan town of Lokichoggio — in the first killing of a WFP aid worker in what has been a major relief hub for southern Sudan.

Silence Chirara, coordinator of WFP’s logistics operation for southern Sudan, was ambushed late on Wednesday by unidentified gunmen who fired AK-47 assault rifles 100 metres from the main gate of the UN camp, the World Food Programme said today.

After coming under attack, Chirara, 37, drove on and his clearly marked UN vehicle hit a shipping container near the gate. He was later pronounced dead at a clinic. His vehicle was hit by seven AK-47 bullets on the car’s left-hand side.

The gunmen escaped.

The head of WFP Sudan Kenro Oshidari who flew to Lokichoggio on Thursday said that the Kenyan Police started its investigations to find the responsible o f Chirara killing.

The body of Chirara, a Zimbabwean national, was flown on Thursday to the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.

During the civil war between North and South Sudan, WFP planes operating from Lokichoggio airdropped food to millions of people in desperate need across southern Sudan.

Since the war ended in 2005, WFP reduced its air operations as roads were repaired but Lokichoggio remained an important relief hub and access route for aircraft and trucks delivering assistance into Sudan.

(ST)

1 Comment

  • THE GAME
    THE GAME

    WFP worker for South Sudan killed in Kenya
    common our african friends or people, how could we killed one of our World Food Programe (wfp)worker for.its really ashameness on u killer, remember you can run but you can not hide.

    he (workers of wfp) is innocent person, he was just trying to help our poor and easy people to get hired by arab governmentfrom .therefore, please stoping murdering them,lets it be the first time and nothing like that would never happens again. they are the one who save your ass from dieing from anger.

    murderers you people are loss,faggit and poor, why can’t you just ask for the money or food instead of taking his life away(killing them).

    Kenya fake ass government deal with this murdering shit, lets be last and please investigates who did that. put it imprison in life or even death penalty, to see what happened to the people who kills people.so that other undercover killer or willing to be a killers would learn the lesson from that person.

    very disppionted to whom did shameness things.

    WFp DON’t trust kenyan, they are betrayers. never knew who did killings. its could a member of the kenyan government, workers or even polices.

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