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Sudan conflict: First victims are children, says senior UNHCR worker

Sudan conflict: First victims are children, says senior UNHCR worker

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The heavy fighting that erupted in Sudan on 15 April has forced more than six million people from their homes and created a humanitarian catastrophe that the world must not continue to ignore.

That’s the urgent message from the UN refugee agency (UNHCR’s) Dominique Hyde, who’s just back from White Nile state, where she witnessed the deadly impact of months of conflict on the country’s most vulnerable people, who are now sheltering in hundreds of displacement camps.

Here she is now, speaking to UN News’s Daniel Johnson.

Audio Credit
Daniel Johnson, UN News - Geneva
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8'19"
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© UNHCR/Selim Meddeb Hamrouni