Save Key messages: Child Alert Darfur

Source: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Date: 20 Dec 2005

Darfur's children deserve the same dividends of peace which children affected by Sudan's North-South conflict are beginning to see.

There are 3.4 million persons directly affected by the conflict, of which more than 1.75 million are children under 18 years of age and of this, around 500,000 are under five living in more than 200 camps and settlements with access to limited resources and particularly vulnerable to the effects of violence, abuse, hunger, disease, and exploitation.

An additional 1.4 million children under 18 years of age are living in rural and vulnerable and beyond the reach of current international relief efforts. We need to reach these children.

The parties involved in the 7th round of Peace Talks in Abuja have to find real political solutions to this conflict. The time is NOW otherwise the current stalemate will persist in Darfur.