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Back to school, back to hope
During an English lesson, 13-year-old Aya walks to the blackboard with confidence and, in no time, writes three sentences. After being out of school for more than a year and a half, Aya takes pride in how far she has come. Not even an earlier failed test will deter her from achieving her dream of learning English ...
Press release
An entire generation of children in Sudan faces a catastrophe as the war enters its second year
NEW YORK/PARIS/PORT SUDAN, 14 April 2024, – One year since violence exploded in Sudan, and as the ensuing crisis continues to deepen, the lives, educations and futures of a generation of Sudanese children hang in the balance. Beyond the direct impact of the violence on children, the ongoing war has fueled a leth...
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One year of the brutal war in Sudan
The children of Sudan have now endured a full year of violence, trauma, displacement, and devastation since the conflict escalated. Millions have been forced to flee their homes, making Sudan the biggest child displacement crisis in the world. For these children, it has been 12 months of loss, tears, upheaval, ...
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Bundling nutrition, WASH and health services to save lives
With critical systems and services on the brink of collapse, children and families in Sudan are facing challenges accessing critical health services across the country. As millions remain on the move, health systems in states with high displacements are overstretched, while some health facilities in many locations...
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300 days of the war in Sudan
GENEVA, 9 February 2024, – “Three hundred days ago a wave of atrocities were unleashed upon the children of Sudan. “Here is some of what happened in those 300 days: “First: the world’s largest displacement of children has been seen in Sudan. Four million children have been displaced. That’s 13,000 children every s...
Press release
More than two million children displaced by brutal conflict in Sudan as violence spreads to new areas
PORT SUDAN, 23 August 2023, – At least two million children have been forced from their homes since the conflict in Sudan erupted four months ago – an average of more than 700 children newly displaced every hour. As violence continues to ravage the country, over 1.7 million children are estimated to be on the move...
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Conflict in Sudan deepens malnutrition crisis
Even before conflict erupted in Sudan three months ago, malnutrition rates among children under 5 years were on the rise. Three million under five children suffered from acute malnutrition, of whom 612,000 were severely malnourished. But as the fighting continues, tens of thousands of families on the move now find...
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UNHCR and UNICEF renew their Letter of Understanding on World Refugee Day
On World Refugee Day, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) announce the signature of an updated Joint Action Plan to complement their 2015 Letter of Understanding (LoU). This document aims at further cementing the collaboration between the two ag...
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Thousands flee Tigray region to Sudan
The concentration of arrivals from Ethiopia has been happening mainly in Hamdyet Reception Center in Sudan’s Gedarif State, where an emergency response Centre was established with UNCEF support, to register and provide assistance to thousands of women, children and men crossing into the country. Thousands of refu...
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I can’t find my little brother
I am waiting for my brother, I don’t dare to leave just in case he manages to cross over, and I miss him. I have been here for four days now; I haven’t climbed up to the Reception Centre and I wait for others to bring me some food. “My mother told me to wait by the river.” Nargof, 18, is sitting at the edge of the...