Four children die of malnutrition in Sudan’s Khartoum amid war-related shortages

March 7, 2025 (KHARTOUM) – Four children have died within a week from malnutrition in Al-Jireif West, an area east of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, activists said on Friday, as a war between rival military factions exacerbates a humanitarian crisis.

Several areas of Khartoum state controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are facing severe food and medicine shortages. Aid groups say most of the volunteer-run kitchens that had been providing free meals to those stranded have shut down due to insecurity and a lack of supplies.

The Al-Jireif West Resistance Committee, a local activist group, said in a statement that one child died on Friday from complications related to malnutrition, in addition to three other children who died earlier in the week.

The committee said the area is experiencing a critical lack of food, adding that emergency room volunteers have also faced arrests and threats.

Retaliatory attacks by RSF fighters have increased recently in neighbourhoods in southern, western, and central Khartoum, leading to widespread abuses against civilians. The attacks coincide with significant advances by the Sudanese army, which has retaken control of large parts of the capital.