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STORY: UNICEF / SUDAN CHILDREN STARVATION
TRT: 02:49
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 23 AUGUST 2025, AL FASHER, SUDAN
1. Various shots, children, women walking. gathering point
2. Various shots, woman preparing food, woman pounding food using pestle and mortar
3. Various shots, children sitting with their mother, eating from a metallic bowl, food pellets, empty pot placed on fireplace
4. Various shots, children and women in underground tunnel for safety
5. Various shots, mother standing in gathering point with her child, mother walking holding her children’s hands,
6. Various shots, mother washing plates and cups, preparing to cook food for her family, saucepan on fireplace, containing porridge being cooked,
7. Various shots, mother breaking sticks to use as firewood, preparing to start fire under saucepan, mother cooking in saucepan over open fire
8. SOUNDBITE(Arabic), Randa (not her real name), 35 years old:
"We are exhausted and tired. Regarding the food, we are exhausted trying to find any; nothing is left for us to eat anymore. We are so exhausted. Life itself is so hard. Everything is so hard now."
9. Wide shot, women and children, meeting point
According to UNICEF, at least 600,000 people - half of them children - have been displaced from Al Fasher and surrounding camps in recent months.
Inside the city, an estimated 260,000 civilians, including 130,000 children, remain trapped in desperate conditions, cut off from aid for more than 16 months.
The toll on children is catastrophic.
Since the start of the siege in April 2024, more than 1,100 grave violations have been verified in Al Fasher alone, including the killing and maiming of over 1,000 children.
Many were struck down in their homes, inside displacement camps, or in marketplaces.
At least 23 children have been subjected to rape, gang rape, or sexual abuse, while others have been abducted, recruited, or used by armed groups.
Due to limited access and verification challenges, the number of affected children is almost certainly significantly higher.
This week saw reports of another mass casualty event, as seven children were reportedly killed in an attack on Abu Shouk Internal Displacement camp, located on the outskirts of Al Fasher.
UNICEF continues to call on the Government of Sudan, and all other concerned parties, to help ensure sustained, unimpeded, and safe access to reach children wherever they are in Sudan, including: An immediate and sustained humanitarian pause in Al Fasher and across other conflict-affected areas; Unimpeded humanitarian access for the delivery of therapeutic food, medicines, clean water, and other essentials; The re-establishment and continuity of UN and partner operations in the areas most critically affected; Protection of civilians, including children, and civilian infrastructure in line with international humanitarian law.
