“Although we cannot confirm estimates due to violence, we have received reports that 190 children have been killed and 1,700 injured in Sudan since the conflict began nearly three weeks ago,” UNICEF said.
On Thursday, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimated that at least 190 children have been killed and 1,700 others injured in Sudan since the outbreak of the conflict about three weeks ago.
UNICEF said in statement “Although we cannot confirm estimates due to the violence, we have received reports that 190 children have been killed and 1,700 injured in Sudan since the conflict began nearly three weeks ago.”
“The situation in Sudan is appalling (…) the violence in Sudan must stop,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said in a statement.
According to the latest count by the Sudanese Ministry of Health, at least 550 civilians have been killed and nearly 5,000 injured since the start of the conflict between the Sudanese army and the RSF.
UNICEF also called on the conflicting parties in Sudan to abide by international humanitarian law and not to expose children to danger, and to “stop attacks on health centers and schools” as well as not to launch attacks on “the infrastructure of water and sanitation systems and other facilities on which children depend.”
The organization emphasized that the attacks undermined its ability to reach children across the country, calling for the parties to the conflict to abide by international law.
