UNICEF confirms over 400 children killed, 3.3 million displaced by Sudan conflict

July 26, 2023

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Sudanese refugees who fled the conflict in Sudan gather July 1, 2023 at the Zabout refugee Camp in Goz Beida, Chad. The U.N. says the conflict in Sudan has driven more than 3.1 million people from their homes, including over 700,000 who fled to neighboring countries. The U.N. said Wednesday more than 72% of those displaced were from the capital, Khartoum, and around 9% from West Darfur province, where the clashes between the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have largely centered. (Marie-Helena Laurent/WFP via AP)

The UN children’s agency UNICEF released a statement on Monday in which it confirmed that at least 435 children have been killed and at least 2,025 injured since violence broke out in Sudan three months ago.

Ted Chaiban, UNICEF deputy executive director warned that “The impact that this conflict has had on children in Sudan over the last 100 days is unfathomable.”

The UN agency said that it had received reports of 2,500 child rights violations so far, but the number is likely to be much.

The statement added “Every day, children are killed, injured, abducted and witness schools, hospitals and vital infrastructure being damaged, destroyed or looted.”

More than 3.3 million people have been displaced by the ongoing violence in Sudan, according to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR).

Of these, some 740,000 people have fled to neighbouring countries, the organisation reported in Geneva on Monday.