Children attend a fun day organized by Sudanese artists to support their mental well-being following the crisis in Sudan’s capital Khartoum, in Port Sudan. After surviving weeks of fighting in Khartoum, Sanaa Mahmoud has finally got her family to safety in Cairo but says her daughter still wakes up at night screaming because of the gunfire and airstrikes that rocked her neighbourhood.
“They saw everything, the gunfire was falling on us at home, and they saw horrible scenes,” said Mahmoud, speaking at a shelter in Cairo where she has found sanctuary for her two daughters. She still screams at night and cries out to me ‘Why are these people coming to kill us?’” she said.
In Khartoum, Mahmoud describes how her daughter would run to her in alarm whenever she heard warplanes overhead, fearing they were in danger. The account is a glimpse of the trauma being suffered by hundreds of thousands of children in Sudan, where the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have been locked in weeks of conflict that has killed hundreds of people.
UNICEF, the United Nations children’s agency, says 368 000 children have been forced from their homes in Sudan, and a further 82 000 have fled into neighboring states. It estimates 190 children were killed in the first 10 days of the war, and 1 700 injured.
“Before the conflict, we already had 7 million children, between 6 and 18 years of age, of school-going age, out of school. We already had 611 000 kids under five suffering from severe acute malnutrition, with 3 million kids under five suffering overall from malnutrition,” UNICEF country director in Sudan, Mandeep O’Brien, told Reuters.
Source: SABC
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