Infants, toddlers and older children died from fever or lack of food while trapped in deteriorating conditions
At least 60 infants, toddlers and older children have perished over the past six weeks while trapped in harrowing conditions in an orphanage in Sudan’s capital as fighting raged outside.The extent of the children’s suffering emerged from interviews with more than a dozen doctors, volunteers, health officials and workers at the al-Mayqoma orphanage in Khartoum. The Associated Press also reviewed dozens of documents, images and videos showing the deteriorating conditions at the facility.
“It is a catastrophic situation,” Afkar Omar Moustafa, a volunteer at the orphanage, said in a phone interview. “This was something we expected from day one [of the fighting].” Fighting between rival military factions erupted on 15 April and has turned Khartoum and other urban areas into battlefields., particularly children. More than 860 civilians, including at least 190 children, have been killed and thousands of others wounded, according to Sudan’s Doctors’ Syndicate, which tracks civilian casualties. The tally is likely to be much higher.crossed into neighbouring countriesMore than 13.
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