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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) — El Fasher, a city in Sudan's North Darfur state that has been under siege for 500 days, has become the epicenter of children's suffering, U.N. humanitarian agencies said Wednesday.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) stressed that the already dire situation in North Darfur continues to deteriorate at an alarming rate.
The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said malnutrition, disease and violence were claiming the lives of young people in El Fasher every day. An estimated 260,000 civilians, half of them children, have been trapped in the city and cut off from humanitarian aid for more than 16 months.
UNICEF said more than 10,000 children in El Fasher had been treated for severe acute malnutrition since January, almost double the number last year. At least 63 people, mostly women and children, were reported to have died from malnutrition in one week.
El Fasher, which is besieged by the Rapid Intervention Force (RIF) militia, has seen its supply lines cut off, UNICEF said. Health facilities and mobile feeding teams have been forced to suspend operations because their supplies have run out and new supplies have not arrived, leaving some 6,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition without treatment.
OCHA said the malnutrition reports came as cholera was spreading in North Darfur. “We and our partners have scaled up our response to cholera, including medical supplies and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) support, which has helped contain the outbreak,” it said. “However, new cases are emerging in remote communities where access to health care is limited.”
UNICEF also reported that more than 1,100 grave violations have been recorded in the city alone since the siege of El Fasher began in April 2024. In particular, more than a thousand children have been killed or maimed.
The number of child victims is almost certainly much higher, given limited access and problems verifying information, the foundation said. –0–
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