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UNICEF: Darfur’s Children ‘On the Brink’ as Access Requires Days

A field mission found Tawila hosting up to 600,000 people in improvised shelters.

Overview

  • UNICEF’s Eva Hinds briefed journalists in Geneva after a 10-day deployment to Darfur.
  • She said reaching a single child can take days of negotiations, security clearances and travel across shifting frontlines.
  • Over a two-week period, UNICEF and partners vaccinated more than 140,000 children, treated thousands for illness and malnutrition, restored safe water to tens of thousands, and opened temporary classrooms.
  • Hinds described Tawila as a vast expanse of shelters made from sticks, hay and plastic sheeting, with families uprooted by violence.
  • UNICEF calls Sudan the world’s largest humanitarian emergency and urges urgent international attention and decisive action.