The head of the U.N. children’s program, UNICEF, said Thursday that 16 million children in Sudan are suffering horribly from the country’s civil war, with many facing daily threats of violence, starvation, disease and sexual assault.

The conflict in Sudan is "a war on people”, the head of an international medical charity said on Thursday, as one of the world's most devastating humanitarian crises approaches its third year. Doctors without Borders (MSF) secretary general Christopher Lockyear told the UN Security Council that the unrelenting violence has uprooted millions and

International medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Thursday told the United Nations Security Council that the Sudanese people have been met with "indifference and inaction" amid nearly two years of war.