By Mastora Bakhiet | Executive Director
Update Report
Women and Children’s Rights, Protection & Empowerment
Reporting Period: February 6, 2026
Context and Overview
Our last report was issued on September 26, 2025, one month before the RSF massacre in Zamzam Camp and El Fasher on October 26, 2025. At that time, there was hope for international intervention to lift the siege on El Fasher and protect civilians. That hope was shattered.
Since then, El Fasher has faced extreme violence, starvation, and a total blockade of humanitarian aid, communications, and internet access—conditions ongoing since April 2023. Women and children have been the most affected.
Despite these devastating circumstances, we are deeply grateful that timely solidarity and support enabled us to help our volunteers, beneficiaries, and their families evacuate El Fasher before RSF control. Today, they are displaced across Kassala, El Gedaref, Port Sudan, Omdurman, Nyala, Tina, and Chad. Your support provided life-saving assistance that helped families survive displacement, hunger, and violence.
Crisis of Unaccompanied and Orphaned Children in El Tina, Chad
One of the most alarming consequences of the ongoing genocide is the arrival of large numbers of unaccompanied and orphaned children in El Tina, Chad. Our field teams conducted observations and data collection to assess their needs.
Key Findings
The center in El Tina, Chad, hosts 2,075 children who fled Sudan, primarily from El Fasher, North Darfur:
Due to relocations and informal family placements, numbers fluctuate.
Children’s Well-Being
Children range from 3–17 years old. Despite severe trauma, 73% can identify their families or places of origin, yet most lack family tracing or reunification services.
The center is managed by Haseer Organization, with only four staff members overseeing all children. Services remain extremely limited, with no formal education, healthcare, or child-protection programs.
Facilities and Nutrition
While the center provides basic shelter, facilities are not child-friendly and lack adequate infrastructure. There is no dedicated nutrition program.
Priority Needs
Urgent and longer-term needs include:
Without immediate intervention, children remain at high risk of malnutrition, exploitation, untreated trauma, and long-term harm.
Conclusion
Orphaned and unaccompanied children in El Tina are among the most vulnerable survivors of the war and genocide in Sudan. While the center offers temporary safety, critical gaps remain in food, healthcare, education, and protection.
Although some children were later reunited with extended family or community members, many remain without known caregivers. Coordinated and sustained humanitarian support is urgently needed to restore dignity, protection, stability, and hope to children who have already endured unimaginable loss. Here is your link:http://goto.gg/47978
With deep gratitude and urgent appeal,
Darfur Women Network (DWN)
By Mastora Bakhiet | Executive Director
By Mastora Bakhiet | Executive Director
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