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.