WHO: Hundreds of children die in Sudan health crisis

Residents displaced by violent attacks squat on blankets in the village of Masteri in west Darfur, Sudan, on July 30, 2020. [AP Photo]

Measles, diarrhea and malnutrition, among other preventable diseases, kill about 100 children every month in Sudan where armed conflicts have uprooted more than five million people from their homes, according to the United Nations.

Between May 15 and September 14, at least 1,200 children under the age of five died from a deadly combination of a suspected measles outbreak and high malnutrition in nine camps for internally displaced people in Sudan's White Nile state.