Overview

• About 260,000 civilians — including 130,000 children — remain trapped without aid after roughly 16 months under an RSF blockade, the agency said.
• At least 600,000 people, roughly half of them children, have fled el-Fasher and surrounding camps in recent months as fighting escalated.
• Nutrition services have halted after supplies were cut off, leaving an estimated 6,000 children with severe acute malnutrition without treatment and following reports of 63 hunger deaths in a single week.
• UNICEF has verified more than 1,100 grave violations since April 2024, including over 1,000 children killed or maimed, alongside reports of sexual violence, abductions, and child recruitment.
• Health and education sites have been repeatedly struck — 35 hospitals and six schools — while a widening cholera outbreak has reached nearly 100,000 suspected cases nationwide and reports this week say seven children were killed at Abu Shouk camp.