About 300 children have been evacuated from an orphanage in Sudan's capital Khartoum where dozens of children were found last month to have died since mid-April, due to nearby fighting between rival military factions
CAIRO, June 8 - About 300 children have been evacuated from an orphanage in Sudan's capital Khartoum where dozens of orphans were found last monthThe International Committee of the Red Cross , which facilitated the evacuation late on Wednesday, said the children aged between 1 and 15 had been taken to a safer location in Wad Madani, about 200 kilometres southeast of Khartoum.
That number was confirmed by Siddig Frini, general manager at the Khartoum state ministry of social development, which oversees care centres. On May 29, Reuters reported that at least 50 children had died – dozens of them babies – at the state-run orphanage, known as Mygoma, since the start of the conflict in Khartoum on April 15.
Hadhreen, a volunteer group that has been helping at the orphanage, said on Wednesday it had confirmed the deaths of 71 children at the orphanage since the conflict started.
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