Nearly 300 children, most of them below the age of two, have been evacuated from the capital.
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They died of starvation, dehydration and infections as fighting prevented staff from reaching the orphanage.The orphanage is in an area that has been at the heart of the fighting between the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces . "We are losing them so fast. In recent days, we lost three children," Sudanese activist Sadeia al-Rasheed Ali Hamid told me earlier this week.Local activists and international aid organisations were trying to get the children out of the warzone, but it was not easy.Poor communication along the chain of command of the warring sides meant that securing safe access to the orphanage, and out of Khartoum, was difficult.But Sadeia tells me there was no alternative.
"They were just so small in our arms when we were taking them," says Marina Fakhouri, an ICRC protection delegate who travelled on one of the buses.Upon arrival, some of them were immediately transferred to hospitals.The hope now is to find families that can foster the children.
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