Conflict in Sudan: 19 million children do not go to school

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At least 10,400 schools have recently been closed in conflict areas due to increasing violence and insecurity. Even before the conflict broke out in mid-April, nearly seven million children were not attending school. If the crisis continues, children in Sudan will soon no longer be able to go to school, the organizations warned. The girls and boys face numerous risks, including displacement, recruitment by armed groups and sexual violence. “Sudan is about to experience the world’s worst education crisis,” said Mandeep O’Brien, UNICEF’s Country Representative in Sudan. The future of an entire generation is in jeopardy, O’Brien said.

According to Save the Children, the conflict in Sudan has become the world’s largest internal displacement crisis. About 4.4 million people in the country of about 40 million have had to leave their home villages since mid-April, including about 2.5 million children.

Since April 15, the army under de facto head of state Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan has been fighting in Sudan against the paramilitary militia RSF of former deputy ruler Mohammed Hamdan Daglo. The generals seized power together in a coup in 2019 and 2021 and later fell out over power-sharing. Neither side has managed to gain the upper hand so far.

(SDA)

Source: Blick