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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Mark Townsend

Send in armed UN troops to protect aid convoys or risk ‘dystopia’, says expert

A UN pickup truck mounted with a heavy machine gun carrying a unit of blue-helmeted peacekeepers follows UN trucks in a desert landscape
Rwandan troops escorting a UN food aid convoy to camps for displaced people in Darfur in 2014. Five died when a food convoy was attacked this month. Photograph: A González Farran/UN

UN peacekeepers should be routinely deployed to protect aid convoys from attack in places such as Gaza and Sudan, a senior United Nations expert has proposed.

With starvation increasingly used as a weapon of war, Michael Fakhri said armed UN troops were now required to ensure that food reached vulnerable populations.

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