The days following the outbreak of clashes between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces in the capital, Khartoum, left a new Sudanese tragedy monitored by Reuters after dozens of children died in "Maygoma", the largest orphanage in Khartoum and all of Sudan, due to malnutrition and severe drought.

Abdullah Adam, a volunteer doctor at the Maygoma orphanage, said that the children are living in difficult tragic conditions, raising fears that new deaths will continue among them, due to the power outage in the home in addition to the interruption of access to them due to the clashes that have been going on in the country for more than 6 weeks.

Adam added during his participation in the program "evening" on Al Jazeera Mubasher TV, Tuesday, that he cannot reach the house although he lives very close to the headquarters because of the clashes.

He explained that the home contains about 330 children who face the problems of malnutrition, severe drought and the lack of sufficient staff to care for them.

Adam appealed to the conflicting parties to stop the clashes and allow the evacuation of children to a safe place, noting that the area where the house is located is besieged and inaccessible due to fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces.


Concerns are mounting about the fate of the remaining children after at least 50 children, including 20 infants, died, he said.

"Sudan's children are in urgent need of humanitarian aid" after clashes erupted in mid-April, Adam said.

According to Reuters, the children's death certificates stated that they all died as a result of a severe drop in blood circulation, and fever or malnutrition caused all but one of them to die.

The area remains dangerous. Earlier this week, air and artillery strikes targeted the area where the orphanage is located, Dr. Abeer Abdullah told the agency.

Officially known as the Orphanage for Children, the Maygoma Orphanage is a three-story building in central Khartoum, located close to combat zones.

Staff at the home and volunteers said a hail of bullets rained down on the building. One doctor said the children slept on the floor in the early days of the fighting to keep them out of the windows.

Founded in 1961, Maigoma usually receives hundreds of children a year, according to the charity Médecins Sans Frontières, which supports the house.