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Sudan: 13 Children Starved to Death in East Darfur
DARFUR REGION, SUDAN, JUL 29 – The Darfur Bar Association blames Sudanese authorities for worsening food shortages, disease outbreaks, and attacks on displaced people amid a civil war displacing over 13 million, aid groups report.
- Thirteen children died last month from malnutrition in the Lagawa displacement camp in East Darfur amid ongoing conflict in Sudan.
- The deaths result from a severe food shortage caused by a 27-month civil war between Sudan's army and the Rapid Support Forces.
- Lagawa camp hosts over 7,000 displaced people, mostly women and children, who face repeated armed attacks and deteriorating humanitarian conditions.
- Sheldon Yett, UNICEF's representative in Sudan, emphasized that this critical moment requires global intervention to protect children's lives from worsening conditions.
- The humanitarian crisis has led to widespread malnutrition, disrupted aid delivery, and calls for immediate international action to secure the camp and provide food and healthcare.
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Sudan: 13 Children Starved to Death in East Darfur
Ed Daein -- The Sudanese Doctors Network expressed its deep concern over the deteriorating humanitarian conditions in Lagawa camp for internally displaced people in Ed Daein, East Darfur. The camp houses more than 7,000 displaced people, most of them women and children. Thirteen children died of malnutrition in June.
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Sudan gripped by deadly crisis as hunger, disease and heat intensify
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) raised the alarm on Wednesday over the rising toll of hunger, disease and displacement in various conflict-ridden parts of Sudan.
Sudanese doctors say 13 children died due to severe food shortage in a camp for displaced persons in the state of Darfur in East Sudan. The Sudan Medical Network has announced that the human conditions in the camp of Lagawa have deteriorated. The BBC correspondent reports that this is happening in an area that represents a landing of [...]
Thirteen children died of malnutrition-related causes last month in a camp for internally displaced people in Sudan's Darfur region, where civil war has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis, the Sudan Doctors Network said on Tuesday. The deaths at the Lagawa camp in East Darfur province were the latest tragedy in Sudan, which descended into chaos in April 2023 when fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces erup…
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