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According to Save the Children, a non-government charity organization having world-wide linkages, more than 10 million children in Sudan have been in an active warzone and less than five kilometres away from gunfire, shelling, and other deadly violence over the past year of war.
Analysis by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project on behalf of the charity found that one in two children in Sudan are currently or have been within five kilometres of the frontlines of the conflict. This is a 60 per cent increase from the already 6.6 million children exposed to violence in the first month of the fighting, and shows how the conflict has continued to increase in scale and scope across the country.
Many of the children have witnessed or suffered devastating injury, death, displacement, psychological harm and the destruction of their homes and communities.
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Millions of children in Sudan have been unable to go to school over the past year, don’t have adequate food, and thousands are at risk of death from disease. Fierce fighting continues to turn the lives of millions of children upside down. Save the Children says more must be done to protect them.
