Sudan: UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Ishmael Beah Meets Children and Young People Trapped in World’s Biggest Child Displacement Crisis

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Ishmael Beah travelled to Sudan this week to meet with children and families affected by the conflict that has devastated the country for the past 19 months.

During his visit, Beah – a bestselling author and human rights activist who was forcibly recruited into an armed group during the brutal civil war in his home country of Sierra Leone at 13 – spent time with children who have been displaced and detained, as well as a family who have taken in a child abandoned…