#sudan

#sudan

In 2022, more than 90% of young children in Sudan received their routine vaccinations. But that figure has nearly halved to 48%, the lowest in the world.

Peter Everington, who has died aged 90, was deeply affected by the Suez crisis in 1956, prompting a career shift from classics to Arabic.

"How could someone as gifted as Moneim Mustafa, designer of some of the most exciting mid-century modernist buildings anywhere, be so neglected...?"

The survivors were almost about to die. They are severely dehydrated and exhibiting signs of distress and trauma with such circumstances and given that they're seeing those around them dying.

All that I did over 40 years has turned to ashes before my eyes, says Prof Ahmed Fahal, of the destruction of his research centre in Sudan's capital, Khartoum. His once-gleaming laboratory, where a team of white-coated expert clinicians once busied over their work, is now little more than rubble. I built everything from scratch. I knew every corner, every brick of the building. I can't describe the pain, he says.

But the overall health system in Chad is fragile and many Chadian women don't have access to a safe and sterile place to deliver.

The attack on Port Sudan by Sudan's paramilitary forces involved drones targeting civilian and military facilities, causing limited damage but no reported casualties.