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More than 300 children have been killed or injured in Sudan over the past six months, most in drone strikes, according to UNICEF, which warns that escalating violence in Darfur and Kordofan could claim even more children's lives.
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00:00More than 300 children have been killed or injured in Sudan over the past six months, mostly in drone strikes.
00:08The United Nations Children's Agency, UNICEF, said that Darfur and Kordofan continue to record the highest number of child casualties.
00:17The agency warned that an estimated half a million civilians in and around North Kordofan remain at imminent risk,
00:25with drone warfare causing 60% of casualties.
00:29According to UNICEF, children are being killed or wounded in their homes, on the roads, in markets and while trying
00:36to access schools and healthcare.
00:38Many also face recruitment by armed groups, abduction and sexual violence.
00:43Sudan has been gripped by war between the military and the paramilitary rapid support forces since April 2023.
00:51The conflict has killed at least 59,000 people and displaced around 13 million others.
00:59The UN Human Rights Council has passed a resolution condemning escalating violence by Sudan's paramilitary rapid support forces in Al
01:08-Obed, the capital of North Kordofan.
01:10The motion, tabled by Britain and 14 other countries, also establishes an urgent inquiry into alleged human rights abuses in
01:18the area.
01:18The decision follows a warning from UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk last week.
01:23He said civilians in and around the city have endured siege-like conditions for the past 18 months,
01:29amid reports of summary executions, abductions, torture and sexual violence.
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