Half of all Sudanese children not in education due to civil war, says aid group

A Sudanese refugee from al-Fashir, plays with a handmade sock ball because they have no access to a real football at the Tine transit refugee camp in eastern Chad, November 23, 2025.

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Around half of all school-age children in Sudan, or more than eight million, are no longer in education because of the country's civil war, in one of the world's worst education crises, Save The Children said in a report on Thursday.

"Right now the international community is failing the children of Sudan," Inger Ashing, the CEO of Save the Children International, one of the largest charities operating in the country, told reporters in a video-link briefing from Stockholm.