An estimated five million children displaced by Sudan's civil war

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An estimated five million children displaced by Sudan's civil war  UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell visited a boys' school in Kassala State this week to help bring attention to the situation in Sudan. According to the UN children's body, an estimated 10 million people - half of them children - have been displaced in Sudan following a brutal civil war.  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/12/11/an-estimated-5-million-children-displaced-by-sudans-civil-war  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:01They are among those that suffer the most from Sudan's civil war, children.

00:07An estimated 5 million of them have been displaced by the conflict so far.

00:13UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell was on the ground in Sudan this week to bring attention to the situation.

00:20The representative of the young body visited a boys' school and projects meant to help internally displaced people.

00:27Many children find themselves alone and unidentified after having lost their families to airstrikes or in the chaos of fighting.

00:37According to UNICEF, more than 30 million people in the country currently require humanitarian assistance.

00:45This is more than half of Sudan's total population.

00:49Fears are especially high for civilians in the Darfur and Kordofan regions,

00:54which are hard to reach and have seen intense fighting and sieges by the rapid support forces.

01:01In these areas, access to food, water and medical supplies remains practically cut off.

01:07lines of the

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