Sudanese schoolchildren race to make up for years lost to war

Author: ID: 1777617901247914100 Fri, 2026-05-01 06: 03 Port Sudan, Sudan: Sudanese 13-year-old Afrah wants to become a surgeon, and nothing will stop her, not even the war that has ravaged her country and forced millions of children out of school. Quiet and determined, she kept learning on her own for months, uprooted by the now three-year conflict between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). “I would study my lessons again and again, ” she told AFP at a displacement camp in Port Sudan, where she is again receiving an education thanks to UNICEF and local organization SCEFA. Main category: Middle-East

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