At least 60 infants, toddlers and older children perished over the past six weeks while trapped in harrowing conditions in an orphanage in Sudan's capital as fighting raged outside.
The extent of the children’s suffering emerged from interviews with more than a dozen doctors, volunteers, health officials and workers at the Al-Mayqoma orphanage. The Associated Press also reviewed dozens of documents, images, and videos showing the deteriorating conditions at the facility.
Among the dead were babies as young as three months, according to death certificates as well as four orphanage officials and workers for charities now helping the facility.This raised alarm and outrage across social media, and a local charity was able to deliver food, medicine and baby formula to the orphanage on Sunday, with the help of the U.N. children’s agency, UNICEF, and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
More than 13.6 million children are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance in Sudan, up from nearly nine million prior to the war, according to UNICEF. “It looked like a prison … all of us were like prisoners unable to even look from the window. We were all trapped,” she said. “We ended up have one nanny or two serving 20 children or more, including disabled children,” said Moustafa, the volunteer.
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