No child is safe in Al Fasher as conflict continues to devastate lives.
Amid escalating violence, an estimated 130,000 children in Al Fasher, North Darfur, are at high risk of grave rights violations, with reports of abduction, killing, maiming, and sexual violence. For nearly two years, children and their families have been trapped under siege, cut off from food, water, and healthcare.
UNICEF calls for an immediate ceasefire, safe and unimpeded humanitarian access, and protection of all children.
Over 15.2 million children in Sudan have had their lives shattered by conflict and urgently need humanitarian support.
Since conflict escalated in mid-April 2023 into a full-scale civil war, the impact on Sudan's children has been immense: extreme violence, mass displacement, famine and disease outbreaks. Families have been forced to flee their homes, creating the world’s largest child displacement crisis, with 5 million children displaced. Health systems have collapsed, severe food shortages persist, and schools have shut down.
In 2025, grave violations against children have surged. They are being killed, maimed, and many children, especially girls, face terrifying risks to their safety, including sexual violence. Their futures are being stolen and their childhoods lost.
The numbers tell a devastating story:
45%
45 per cent of Sudan’s population are facing severe hunger, with areas already experiencing famine.
12 m
Over 12 million people, including children, are at risk of sexual violence.
8 in 10
More than 8 in 10 school-aged children are missing out on education.
Children caught in this crisis need your support more than ever. Help UNICEF deliver critical lifesaving services and supplies by donating today.
Sudan Crisis
Children are enduring extreme hunger, violence and displacement. Help us to urgently deliver lifesaving support.
Families fleeing violence
After days under siege, Naeema fled Al Fasher in North Darfur with her husband and three children, but tragically her husband was killed. Naeema and her children now live in a makeshift shelter alongside thousands of others at a camp for internally displaced people, where she is receiving support from UNICEF and our partners.
“The situation was very difficult,” Naeema said. “We left Al Fasher exhausted and weak. People were dying.”
How is UNICEF responding in Sudan?
Even in the face of an escalating crisis, UNICEF continues to deliver for every child, despite limited access and significant security risks. Here's how you can help children and families in Sudan.
- $100 could provide 330 vaccine doses, ensuring that children’s futures are protected against preventable but dangerous diseases.
- $135 could provide 252 sachets of lifesaving ready-to-eat therapeutic food that could help treat two children with severe malnutrition.
- $500 could provide 83,334 water purification tablets, each able to create up to 5 litres of clean drinking water, to help prevent deadly waterborne diseases.
- 80¢on average, 80 cents to every dollar spent for the past three years went directly to helping children in need, including long-term programs, emergency response and community education.
- 20¢on average, 14 cents to every dollar spent for the past three years went to essential fundraising costs that helped us generate more impact for children, 6 cents went to admin costs, such as keeping your personal data safe.
How do we use each dollar donated?
If you choose to donate monthly, or in the unlikely event that UNICEF receives more funds than needed for this emergency response, your gift will help support UNICEF's work for children in need around the world.
Sudan Crisis
Children are enduring extreme hunger, violence and displacement. Help us to urgently deliver lifesaving support.