Inside Look: UNICEF Role In Sudan Orphanage Rescue Op
Organizing the safe evacuation of 297 vulnerable children from a state-run facility in the middle of a civil war was a major feat.
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Organizing the safe evacuation of 297 vulnerable children from a state-run facility in the middle of a civil war was a major feat.
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Fighting prevents medical staff from accessing the building to care for sick and starving infants
In the days after war erupted in Khartoum, Dr Abeer Abdullah rushed between rooms at Sudan's largest orphanage, trying to care for hundreds of babies and toddlers as the fighting kept all but a handful of staff away.
At least 50 children — two dozen of them babies — have died at the orphanage in the six weeks since the war broke out in mid-April, says doctor