Ali Rogin:
As control of Sudan hangs in the balance so too do the lives and futures have more than 1 million children displaced by the violence. Many of these children have been displaced within the country itself. In addition to humanitarian assistance, many are seeking physical and psychological healing from the deep scars of war.
Dr. Arif Noor is one of the people on the ground helping the children of Sudan through this crisis. He is the Sudan Country Director for Save the Children. Dr. Noor, thank you so much for joining us.
You've been and your organization have been on the ground in Sudan for well before this fighting started. There's long been need for your services there. What has changed about the needs of children since this fighting began.
Dr. Arif Noor, Country Director, Save the Children Sudan: Around 16 million people in the country were in need of humanitarian assistance. But since the conflict has broken out, this number has increased by 56 percent. And now almost half of the population of the country is in need of dire humanitarian assistance.
And of these almost 25 million people, more than 12 million are children. They have been exposed to the sights, the sounds, and off the violence around them. So even if they are not directly seeing people hurt or killed, they are hearing stories of their friends, family members being killed being injured, and that has had serious consequences for their mental and psychosocial well-being. Many children have lost their lives, and many more have been displaced inside the country.
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