Sudan: North Darfur’s El Fasher ‘An Epicentre of Child Suffering’ – Unicef

Geneva / Darfur — The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that after 500 days under siege, El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, has become “an epicentre of child suffering, with malnutrition, disease, and violence claiming young lives daily”. UNICEF also released two new reports yesterday, entitled Life begins on the run reflects a mother’s journey through conflict and survival, and Trapped by war and hunger, is an account of how mothers in El Fasher struggle to keep their children alive. Both…