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Nearly 47,000 people have been displaced from their homes in the past week, mostly to neighboring states, and at least 30 villages have been attacked, according to UN reports.UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Monday warned that the Sudanese people were living a “nightmare” of hunger, disease, and ethnic violence amid the world's largest displacement crisis. Guterres, however, also said that the conditions were not right yet to deploy a UN force.
The violence in Gezira state escalated after a key RSF commander, Abu Aqleh Keikal, reportedly defected to government forces on October 20, marking the first such defection in the 18-month conflict.Guterres sought "decisive action" by ally-turned-rival generals Abdel-Fattah al Burhan, heading the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to end the violence. He said 18 months into the war, 25M people now need humanitarian aid.
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The unspeakable tragedy of Sudan is the suffering of its children. Nearly 5M young ones are on the run, while countless others waste away from hunger. In crowded refugee camps, children cry through the night from empty stomachs. Once-ambitious students who nurtured dreams now sit idle, their education stolen. Each day brings new horrors: child soldiers, sexual violence, and the crushing weight of trauma. A generation stands at the precipice, their childhood shattered by adult conflicts they never chose.