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Urooba Jamal

Sudanese orphans caught in the conflict’s crosshairs evacuated

The evacuation of 280 children from Sudan's al-Mayqoma [Handout from International Committee of the Red Cross]

For the last few weeks in the al-Mayqoma orphanage in Khartoum, the tiny limbs and small corpses of children who died have been wrapped in white sheets, bundled together awaiting burial.

More than 70 children have died there since mid-April, caught in the continuing deadly conflict in Sudan. But those who have managed to survive have finally been ferried to safety outside the capital, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told Al Jazeera on Thursday.

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