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| A Darfur refugee cradles her child at a camp in Chad. REUTERS/David Mwangi |
Africa's largest country is emerging from a 21-year civil war between the north and south. A separate conflict raging in the arid western Darfur region has caused massive displacement. Another insurgency is brewing in the east.
- More than 1.75 million Darfuri children live in and around camps.
- Girls risk rape when they leave camps and villages to gather firewood.
- Teenage boys are recruited to fight in armed groups.
- One agency says a third of children in camps are working and 15 percent have some type of physical or emotional disability due to atrocities they have experienced.
- Nearly 18 percent of children in east Sudan have acute malnutrition - WFP.
To find out more see our crisis briefing on Sudan.
