Palais Briefing on the First UN mission to Khartoum State since war broke out in Sudan
GENEVA, 15 March 2024: Last week, I led a team of 12 UNICEF staff on a mission to Omdurman, Khartoum. It was the first UN mission back to Khartoum, which has been under near-constant fire since the war broke out in April 2023. Our objective was to understand as much as possible what the conditions are for children 11 months into the fighting, and…