Half of all Sudanese children not in education due to civil war

Around half of all school-age children in Sudan, or more than eight million, are no longer in education because of the country's civil war, in one of the world's worst education crises, Save The Children said in a report on Thursday.



"Right now the international community is failing the children of Sudan," Inger Ashing, the CEO of Save the Children International, one of the largest charities operating in the country, told reporters in a video-link briefing from Stockholm.



The report said more than eight million Sudanese children had missed about 500 days of education since the civil war began in April 2023.



"That is more than any child missed during the COVID pandemic," Ashing said, adding that many schools had closed or been damaged during the conflict, while others were being used as shelters for displaced families.