Darfur, Sudan
Sudan's camps no aid reaches,
fed from the air
A pilotless plane will carry a tonne of peanuts into Darfur and scatter them where nobody can take them away.
The crisis
The world's largest humanitarian crisis.
people in Sudan need aid.
people are acutely hungry.
people are displaced inside Sudan.
children under five expected to be severely malnourished this year.
Children under five in the worst-hit camp in eastern Jebel Marra
are acutely malnourished (Aug–Sep 2026)
Sources: UN; IPC famine alert via Radio Tamazuj, 12 Oct 2026; FAO, WFP and UNICEF, May 2026; camp nutrition survey, Aug–Sep 2026.
The project
Food that falls like rain, and can't be seized.
A new approach to alleviate hunger: a pilotless aircraft carrying a tonne per flight.
The Antonov An-2, one of the most-built utility aircraft ever, is converted to fly without a pilot. It flies into Darfur and scatters loose shelled peanuts from about 1 km up, beside a camp and not over people.
The food lies spread over a large area, so no armed group can take a stock and sell it. The aircraft never lands in Darfur. It turns round and flies home.
Why peanuts
fed for a day by one flight carrying 1,000 kg.
dry peanuts keep without spoiling.
per nut. It falls slowly and cannot hurt anyone.
make a day's food, picked up by hand.
Eaten as they are — no water, fire or mill.
The aircraft
A work plane, built for fields.
Over 18,000 An-2s were built. It takes off from a short grass strip.
The crop-spraying version has a built-in hopper with a hatch in the bottom, made to scatter from the air.
Where
It goes where the least help arrives.
- 1Camps of eastern Jebel Marra
Worst measured hunger. Places like Beli Serif have had no aid.
- 2Tina
Famine-level malnutrition in February. No food aid from March to June.
- 3Kernoi
Border town in the north-west, cut off from food aid.
- 4Um Baru
Border town in the north-west, cut off from food aid.
- 5El Fasher
Around 60,000 people remain. Humanitarian access remains severely restricted.
One aircraft will not change Sudan's hunger. It will feed one cut-off camp.