The children had been staying at the Mygoma Orphanage, where more than 70 children are reported to have died from hunger and illness since the conflict in Sudan broke out in mid-April, BBC News reports.
Nearly 300 children have been safely rescued from an orphanage in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum.
The children had been staying at the Mygoma Orphanage, where more than 70 children are reported to have died from hunger and illness since the conflict in Sudan broke out in mid-April, BBC News reports.
The orphanage was in an area of the city "where the conflict has been raging", according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Aged between one month and 15 years, the 297 children have been taken to Wad Madani, about 200km (125 miles) from Khartoum, it said.
They are now at a transit centre and the UN children’s agency (UNICEF) says it is working with the relevant authorities in identifying foster families for them.
“The safe movement of these incredibly vulnerable children to a place of safety offers a ray of light in the midst of the ongoing conflict in Sudan,” said Mandeep O’Brien, a UNICEF representative.
SaharaReporters had on Wednesday reported that a pro-democracy group, the Take-It-Back Movement (TIB), condemned the ongoing war in Sudan by two rival factions of the Sudanese military junta and the silence of the international community over the war.
The Movement which made the condemnation on Wednesday in a statement said the war had led to the death of thousands of people in the country while at least 700,000 people had been internally displaced.
The crisis has further thrown the democratic revolution which started in the country in 2019 into peril.
“In addition, we condemn the silence of the international community over the injustices being perpetrated against the people of Sudan who are being deprived of their basic rights in this period, including access to humanitarian service.
“The unlawful and illegitimate interference of the military and armed groups within civilian regimes across the continent has for decades been instrumentalized by neo-colonial forces and their local allies to usurp civilian rule, set aside political mandates, and undermine popular sovereignty,” part of the statement read.