Sudan: At Least 245 Child Casualties in Sudan in the First 90 Days of 2026

UNICEF reports drone strikes are responsible for nearly 80% of child casualties in Sudan's ongoing conflict, highlighting a grim shift in warfare. | Contesto: cronaca

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At least 245 children have been killed or injured in Sudan in the first 90 days of 2026, according to a new report from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), with drone attacks accounting for nearly 80 percent of all such casualties this year. The data, released from the agency's offices in New York and Port Sudan, underscores the relentless and disproportionate impact of the three-year-old conflict on the country's youngest and most vulnerable population. The staggering statistic that drone warfare is now the primary cause of child deaths and injuries marks a grim evolution in the conflict's tactics. This shift suggests a move towards remote, aerial bombardment in populated areas, where children are often present in homes, markets, and shelters. The impersonal nature of such attacks, experts note, increases the risk to civilians and complicates traditional protections, turning everyday environments into front lines. The report provides a stark, quantified snapshot of a war that has largely faded from international headlines but continues to ravage communities with devastating precision. UNICEF's findings arrive after three full years of fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a war that has triggered the world's largest displacement crisis. The conflict has collapsed the nation's healthcare, education, and food systems, leaving millions of children acutely malnourished and without access to schooling or basic medicine. The new casualty figures are not isolated incidents but symptoms of this systemic collapse, where every pillar of a child's survival and development has been methodically destroyed. The war has created a generation defined by trauma, loss, and a profound deprivation of their most fundamental rights. The concentration of harm from drone strikes raises urgent legal and humanitarian questions. International humanitarian law strictly prohibits indiscriminate attacks and requires all parties to a conflict to distinguish between combatants and civilians, taking all feasible precautions to avoid harm to the latter. The consistent pattern of child casualties from aerial attacks strongly indicates...

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