UN aid worker killed in Sudan

Santino Pigga Alex Wani, a Senior Programme Assistant working with the UN World Food Programme was killed during an ambush by armed assailants in Jonglei state on 22nd April 2011.

Santino, a Senior Programme Assistant, was on mission with members of WFP’s cooperating partner, Joint Aid Management, or JAM, when the vehicle they were travelling in was attacked.

 

Santino first started working with WFP in 2004. He was born in the Western Equatoria State capital of Yei in Southern Sudan. He leaves behind a wife and a teenage son and daughter.