13 children died of malnutrition-related causes in a Darfur camp, a Sudan doctors' group says
Thirteen children died of malnutrition-related causes last month in a camp for displaced people in the Darfur region of Sudan, where civil war has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, a doctors’ group said Tuesday.
The deaths in the Lagawa camp in East Darfur province were the latest tragedy in Sudan, which plunged into chaos in April 2023 when tensions between the military and the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces exploded in the capital, Khartoum, and quickly spread.
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The U.N. agency said over 40,000 children were admitted for treatment for severe acute malnutrition in North Darfur province, double the number for the same period last year.
"This is a moment of truth; children’s lives depend on whether the world chooses to act or look away,” Sheldon Yett, UNICEF Representative for Sudan, has said.
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