Sudan conflict fallout: Over 1200 children have died in country amid healthcare crisis, says UN

Subject: IR

Section: Places in news

Context:

More than 1,200 children under the age of five died in Sudan from suspected measles and malnutrition in nine camps in White Nile State between May 15 and September 14, 2023.

Details:

The children were refugees living in nine camps in Sudan’s White Nile state, according to the UN refugee agency (UNCHR) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces since April 15, 2023 has displaced over 2.9 million people across Sudan and into neighbouring countries like the Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya and South Sudan.
The UN’s 2023 Sudan Humanitarian Response Plan launched in May remains only 30 per cent funded.

Sudan’s white Nile states:

Refugees in Sudan:

Sudan, which has a long record of generously hosting refugees, used to be home to over 1 million refugees – the second highest refugee population in Africa – mainly from South Sudan, Eritrea, Syria, and Ethiopia, as well as the Central African Republic, Chad and Yemen.
Um Rakuba refugee camp is in Sudan.
The Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement in Northwestern Uganda became the largest refugee camp in the world in early 2017, with over 270,000 refugees.