Drones Behind Two Thirds Of Child Casualties In Sudan
UNICEF says 270 of 410 child casualties this year were caused by armed drones as strikes on civilian infrastructure intensify.
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The United Nations Children ' s Fund (UNICEF) warned that the risks to children of the Sudan posed by drone attacks and the consequences of the El Niño-related drought, noting that the targeting of power stations disrupted water supply and health care and threatened food security, said that drone attacks represented the post-United Nations Children ' s Fund (UNICEF): marches threatened the lives of children of the Sudan who appeared fi…
Drones behind two thirds of child casualties in Sudan: UN
Two thirds of all children killed or injured in war-ravaged Sudan this year have been victims of drone strikes, the United Nations said Tuesday. A total of 410 children were killed or injured in the country between January and September this year, the UN children’s agency UNICEF said. And two-thirds of those casualties, an estimated […]
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Drones and drought are “closing in” on Sudan, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF, said on Tuesday, describing unprecedented attacks on the country’s infrastructure including by drones travelling up to 1,500 kilometres before hitting their target.
UNICEF spokesperson James Elder reported that drones and drought are engulfing children in Sudan. Elder stated that two-thirds of child deaths this year are due to drones and that approximately 825,000 children are expected to face malnutrition.
(The following text is taken in full from the press note sent to the Agency Opinion) //// UNICEF/Sudan: drones and droughts are a combined attack against unprecedented children. It is estimated that this year in Sudan about 825,000 children under the age of five will suffer from severe acute malnutrition or the one that kills. This year in Sudan two out of three [...]
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