UNICEF Sudan Humanitarian Situation Report: August 2025

Highlights

• 4,823 Sudanese refugee students in Chad sat the Sudanese Baccalaureate examinations, restoring their pathway to certification and future opportunities. Since January, nearly 1.4 million children have benefited from UNICEF-supported education programmes.
   
• Heavy rains and flooding across eight states affected over 14,000 people. Continued rainfall heightens the risk of cholera, malaria, and dengue, while severe funding gaps, particularly in emergency WASH (87 per cent unfunded), threaten outbreak responses in urban centres such as Khartoum. UNICEF and partners provided 1.2 million people with access to safe drinking water in August. Of these,1.5 people accessed treated water through chemical treatment and purification systems.
   
• UNICEF scaled up life-saving nutrition services to record levels, with over 321,000 children treated for severe acute malnutrition since January (22 per cent more than 2024).
   
• 56 per cent of UNICEF’s humanitarian funding requirement remains unmet threatening access to life-saving nutrition, health, protection, education, and clean water.

SITUATION IN NUMBERS

• 15,256,000 - Children in need of humanitarian assistance.
• 30,400,000 - People in need of humanitarian assistance.
• 10,065,329 - Internally Displaced People.