{"id":8959,"date":"2023-12-23T16:15:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T16:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=8959"},"modified":"2023-12-24T18:43:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T18:43:24","slug":"three-million-children-in-gezira-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/23\/three-million-children-in-gezira-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Million Children in Gezira at Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Agencies \u2013 Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n

The escalation in fighting in Sudan\u2019s Gezira state has reportedly forced at least 150,000 children from their homes in less than a week, UNICEF warned today. The eruption of fighting in Gezira means that more than half of states in Sudan \u2013 10 out of 18 \u2013 are experiencing active conflict.
\nAn estimated 5.9 million people live in Gezira State, with approximately half of the population being children.
\n\u201cTens of thousands of vulnerable children in Gezira state have been forced to flee their homes in search of safety as fighting erupts into areas that were previously considered relatively safe,\u201d said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell. \u201cThis new wave of violence could leave children and families trapped between fighting lines or caught in the crossfire, with fatal consequences. With reports of renewed fighting elsewhere in the country, millions of children in Sudan are once again at grave risk.\u201d
\nThe city currently hosts hundreds of vulnerable children evacuated from other parts of the country, and has served as a hub for humanitarian operations since fighting broke out in April. Attacks on or disruption of these services would immediately endanger the lives of thousands of people, including children.
\nThe escalation in fighting has led to a suspension of all humanitarian field missions within and from Gezira State as of 15 December, further impacting children and families.
\n“Our colleagues in Sudan have heard bone-chilling stories of the harrowing journeys women and children were forced to make just to reach the safety of Madani city,” said Russell. \u201cNow, even that fragile sense of security is shattered as those same children have once again been forced from their homes. No child should have to experience the horrors of war. Children, and the civilian infrastructure they rely on, must be protected.\u201d
\nEven prior to the latest escalation in Madani, more than 3 million children had been forced to flee widespread violence in search of safety, food and water, shelter and protection, opportunities for learning and health care\u2014most remaining within Sudan\u2014while hundreds of thousands are sheltering in sprawling makeshift camps in neighbouring countries. This makes Sudan the largest child displacement crisis in the world.
\nOver the last nine months, UNICEF and partners have worked to provide life-saving assistance to over 6 million children inside Sudan and in neighbouring countries, including water, health, nutrition, safe spaces and learning. Yet while the scale of humanitarian needs continues to dwarf available resources and funding, further support, along with safe and unhindered humanitarian access to deliver life-saving supplies, is critical. UNICEF\u2019s humanitarian appeal for Sudan for this year remains only 27 per cent funded. UNICEF requires $840 million in 2024 to sustain and scale lifesaving and resilience services for close to 8 million of the most vulnerable children in Sudan.
\nUNICEF continues to call for an immediate ceasefire across Sudan, and reiterates its call for all parties to the conflict to respect international humanitarian and human rights law \u2013 including ensuring that children are protected \u2013 and that speedy, safe, unimpeded humanitarian access to children and families in affected areas is facilitated. Without such access, critical lifesaving humanitarian support will be out of reach for millions of vulnerable children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Agencies \u2013 Sudan Events The escalation in fighting in Sudan\u2019s Gezira state has reportedly forced at least 150,000 children from their homes in less than a week, UNICEF warned today. The eruption of fighting in Gezira means that more than half of states in Sudan \u2013 10 out of 18 \u2013 are experiencing active conflict. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8961,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions\/8961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}