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A U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) diplomat was shot and killed along with his Sudanese driver by unknown assailants in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on Jan. 1. The U.S. State department confirmed the killing but did not immediately release the name of the diplomat. He reportedly was shot five times as he was traveling to a residential suburb of Khartoum, by gunmen firing from another car. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the killing.

The killing of a U.S. diplomat in Khartoum is unprecedented in recent years. However, in 1988 an attack on the city’s Acropole hotel by the Palestinian Abu Nidal Organization killed several Sudanese and British citizens and wounded three USAID workers, and in 1986 a U.S. Embassy communications officer was shot in Khartoum.

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