The institution also warned about a 60 percent increase in relation to the 6.6 million children exposed to violence in the first month of the conflict, almost a year ago.

The director of Save the Children in Sudan, Arif Noor, explained in a statement released this Wednesday that children are exposed daily to bombings, attacks with improvised explosive devices, mortar and missile strikes, as well as direct actions against civilians. They have also witnessed or suffered devastating injuries, deaths, displacement, psychological harm, and the destruction of their homes and communities.

Noor highlighted that millions of children do not have access to adequate nutrition and thousands of others are at risk of dying from diseases, given the destruction of the health system in the country.

Sudan has been mired in a civil war since April 15th, 2023, after contradictions over power flared up between the head of the Army, Abdel Fatah al-Burhan, and the leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.

In Sudan, where a military coup occurred in 2019 and another in 2021, a conflict subsequently broke out that has caused the death of thousands of civilians, and the displacement of nearly seven million people, according to data provided by the United Nations.

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