US official, wounded in Sudan, sent to Kenya for treatment

WASHINGTON, Mar 23 (AP) — A U.S. foreign aid officer who was wounded by gunfire in Sudan’s Darfur region has been sent to Kenya for treatment, the State Department said Wednesday.

The woman was identified as Marian Spivey-Estrada.

She was traveling in a four-vehicle convoy on Tuesday when the shooting incident occurred. She suffered facial injuries and received treatment initially at a Sudanese facility.

State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said the Sudanese government has condemned to attack and offered to assist an investigation by African Union peacekeepers in Darfur.

Spivey-Estrada was a member of a U.S. Agency for International Development disaster assistance team in Sudan.

Ereli said team members have assembled in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, to review security procedures.

Darfur has been the scene of a bitter ethnic conflict that began two years ago.