{"id":8394,"date":"2026-08-09T01:45:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T23:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/?p=8394"},"modified":"2026-08-09T01:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T23:58:28","slug":"sudan-war-leaves-more-than-8-million-children-out-of-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/09\/sudan-war-leaves-more-than-8-million-children-out-of-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan war leaves more than 8 million children out of school"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

More than 8 million school-age children in Sudan remain out of the classroom because of the ongoing civil war that erupted more than three years ago, the United Nations has said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed delivered the warning on Friday at an informal UN Security Council session on safeguarding education in Sudan, as the war entered its 1,210th day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2024, the UN has documented more than 67 attacks on schools and more than 154 instances of schools being used for military purposes, Mohammed said, noting that the figures almost certainly understate the true toll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than half of Sudan\u2019s teachers have gone unpaid, though many continue working \u201cagainst all odds\u201d, Mohammed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSudan has already lost a generation to its earlier wars, and it is losing another one now,\u201d the deputy secretary-general said, adding that the burden of the conflict falls disproportionately on women and children who \u201chad no say in any of it, but suffer most\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said the UN and its partners have brought more than a million Sudanese children back into some form of learning this year, but this remained far short of what is needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the conflict began between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, UNICEF has issued multiple warnings on the fighting\u2019s impact on children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Approximately 15 million people across the country have been displaced so far, with nearly 33 million people \u2013 more than half of them children \u2013 in dire need of humanitarian assistance, according to the children\u2019s agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visiting Sudan earlier this year, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk described accounts of mass killings and gang rape, calling the conflict \u201cnot just another conflict\u201d but \u201ca human rights catastrophe unfolding in real time\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than 8 million school-age children in Sudan remain out of the classroom because of the ongoing civil war that erupted more than three years ago, the United Nations has said. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed delivered the warning on Friday at an informal UN Security Council session on safeguarding education in Sudan, as the war […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,11,205],"tags":[519,405,455,849,21,22],"class_list":["post-8394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa","category-conflict-zones","category-trending","tag-1-nation-media","tag-one-nation-media","tag-onm","tag-rapid-support-forces","tag-rsf","tag-sudan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t