Sudan: Life continues to be unfavorable for children and their families

UNICEF says while the insecurities continue, the life of children will continue to be in danger.

This has been reported following statistics that show that there are children who were killed in this war while others don’t get make it to their schools and get deprived of their other basic rights.

From the site of UNICEF, unicef.org, they said, “At least 9 children have reportedly been killed in the fighting, and more than 50 children have reportedly been injured as hostilities continue in Khartoum, the Darfurs and North Kordofan.

The perilous security situation across the country makes it very difficult to collect and verify information, but we know that while fighting continues, children will continue to pay the price.

Many families are trapped in the crossfire, with little or no access to electricity, terrified about the fighting and the possibility of running out of food, water and medicine. Thousands of families have been forced from their homes in search of safety.”

They added that, “We have received reports of children sheltering in schools and care centres while fighting rages around them, of children’s hospitals forced to evacuate as shelling moves closer, and hospitals, health centres and other critical infrastructure damaged or destroyed, limiting access to essential and lifesaving care and medicine.

The fighting has disrupted critical, life-saving care for an estimated 50,000 severely acutely malnourished children. These vulnerable children need ongoing, round-the-clock care, which is being put at risk by the escalating violence." 

UNICEF also shows that their workers and facilities in Sudan are not secured.

This is a hindrance to the support that UNICEF and their stakeholders want to bring to the affected children and their families in Sudan; UNICEF asks the violence to be ceased so that the life of children, citizens and their belongings don’t continue to be destroyed.