Almost three years of war in Sudan have left more than eight million children out of education for nearly 500 days, the NGO Save the Children said Thursday, highlighting one of the world's longest school closures.
"More than eight million children - nearly half of the 17 million of school age - have gone approximately 484 days without setting foot in a classroom," the children's rights organization said in a statement.
Sudan has been ravaged since April 2023 by a power struggle between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
This is "one of the longest school closures in the world," the British NGO said.
"Many schools are closed, others have been damaged by the conflict, or are being used as shelters" for the more than seven million displaced people across the country, it added.
