Sudan civil war: The children living between starvation and death in Darfur - BBC News

Millions have fled Sudan's year-long civil war and hunger is now leading to the deaths of many children.

2 days agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsSudan crisisImage source, Mohamed Zakaria/BBCImage caption, Three of Qisma Abdirahman Ali Abubaker's children have recently diedBy Barbara Plett-UsherBBC Africa correspondentThe woman with sad eyes and a quiet voice is just one of the millions of people living in camps for those forced to flee their homes in Sudan, where a civil war broke out a year ago between the army and an armed paramilitary group. The country now faces what the UN says is the "world worst hunger crisis".

Qisma Abdirahman Ali Abubaker goes through the motions of waiting in line to pick up her food ration, but her heart is not in it.

The small bag does not have to stretch as far as it used to for her family.

Three of her children have died of disease and malnutrition in the past four months, she says. The oldest was three, another was two years old, the last was a six-month-old baby.

Ms Abubaker has taken refuge at Zamzam Camp for displaced people in Northern Darfur, part of a region in the west of the country, amid warnings of a catastrophic nutrition crisis there.

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