Some Sudanese children

Picture credit: Klaus Rieth and Rainer Lang

"People see the figure of 1,200 dead. Much more rarely do they see the number of seriously wounded. And almost never do they hear anything at all about the psychiatric casualties."
DR. EVAN KANTER, a psychiatrist at a veterans' hospital in Seattle.(Source:New York Times)

"Children in southern and central Sudan are among the most vulnerable populations in the world. This is increasingly true in oil exploration areas. [10] Many of the children and adolescents living in the South and other marginalized areas of Sudan are forced to flee their homes, separated from their families, and are killed or injured due to the conflict. Other children succumb to infection by treatable diseases and malnutrition, because the health infrastructure in these areas has been destroyed in the war. Furthermore, trained health personnel and medicine are not available, with the exception of international medical emergency teams. Militaries and militias are known to recruit young people living in oil regions and other vulnerable areas. More than 30,000 children live unaccompanied and unprotected on the streets of Khartoum; many are from southern and central Sudan. Approximately 4,600 are girls. Approximately 80 percent of these children are believed to be working street children" Full report

" Sudanese children scavenging food at a dump site in southern Sudan. Picture credit" PC(USA)