Sudan’s war threatens an ‘entire generation’s’ future, UN warns

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · Aug 08, 2026 · 480 words · By Al Jazeera Staff

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Sudan’s war threatens an ‘entire generation’s’ future, UN warns War in Sudan has left over 8 million children out of school, and nearly three-quarters of schools have been affected, according to the UN.

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Why it matters

More than 8 million school-age children in Sudan remain out of the classroom because of the ongoing civil war that erupted more than three years ago, the United Nations has said.

Common ground

Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed delivered the warning on Friday at an informal UN Security Council session on safeguarding education in Sudan, as the war entered its 1,210th day.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 13 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Five children in every six are out of school”

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Two independent sources report that 13 million out of 17 million children are out of school. 13/17 is approximately 76.4%, which is close to the 'five in six' (83.3%) claim, though slightly lower. However, the general scale of the crisis is corroborated.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — South Sudan (), officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered by Sudan to the north, Ethiopia to the east, Kenya to the southeast, Uganda to the south,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sudan

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North (SPLM–N) is a political party and militant organization in Sudan based in the states of Blue Nile and South Kordofan. The group's armed forces are the Suda…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan_People's_Liberation_Move…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since April 2023, there is a civil war in Sudan between the two main factions of the country's military government. The conflict involves the internationally recognized government of Sudan controlled …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_civil_war_(2023–prese…

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Claim 2: “more than 154 instances of schools being used for military purposes”

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UN transcripts and related news reports explicitly confirm the documentation of over 154 instances of schools being used for military purposes since 2024.

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web search NEUTRAL — United Nations - Wikipedia
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web search NEUTRAL — In addition to losing its seat in the UN, the UN Secretary-General concluded from the resolution that the General Assembly considered Taiwan to be a province of "China", which refers to the Greater Ch…
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web search NEUTRAL — Welcome to the United Nations, it's your world.
https://www.un.org/

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Claim 3: “the ongoing civil war that erupted more than three years ago”

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

The claim states the war erupted 'more than three years ago'. However, multiple sources (Wikipedia, UN, and news) explicitly state the current civil war began in April 2023. As of the current evidence date (January 2026), it has been approximately 2 years and 9 months, not 'more than three years'.

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web search NEUTRAL — Since April 2023, there has been a civil war in Sudan between the two main factions of the country's military government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_civil_war_(2023–prese…

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web search NEUTRAL — 4 hours ago. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday marked three years since the war in Sudan began, warning of catastrophic humanitarian conditions at an international conference in Berli…
https://www.trtafrika.com/english/article/db33188d6382

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web search NEUTRAL — Tablet features – civil war in Sudan. More than 25 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. Thirteen million displaced from their homes, of whom three million have fled to neighbouring count…
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/do-not-look-away-the-tr…

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Claim 4: “nearly three-quarters of schools have been affected”

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While sources mention schools are closed, damaged, or used as shelters, none of the provided evidence specifies the 'three-quarters' (75%) figure for the whole country.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan

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Claim 5: “War in Sudan has left over 8 million children out of school”

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Multiple independent sources, including UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and news reports, confirm that nearly 8 million children are out of school.

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web search NEUTRAL — PORT SUDAN, 22 January 2026 – Millions of children in Sudan have missed nearly 500 days of learning since the war started in April 2023 in what has become one of the world’s longest school closures, s…
https://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/sudan-children-have-lost-…

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web search NEUTRAL — The conflict has left nearly eight million children out of school and reduced countless schools to rubble, and many schools remain closed or are being used as shelters across the country.
https://www.africanews.com/2026/08/19/children-in-khartoum-s…

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web search NEUTRAL — New York – SudanhorizonUnited Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said that the future of Sudan’s children is among the most significant casualties of the war, as the conflict has deprived…
https://sudanhorizon.com/un-at-least-8-million-sudanese-chil…

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Claim 6: “More than half of Sudan’s teachers have gone unpaid”

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Although the 'Evidence for claim 8' section was empty, the evidence provided for Claim 6 explicitly contains the sentence: 'More than half of Sudan’s teachers have gone unpaid'.

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Claim 7: “the war entered its 1,210th day”

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The provided evidence confirms the war started in April 2023, but none of the search results provide a specific day count of 1,210 days.

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Claim 8: “Approximately 15 million people across the country have been displaced so far”

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Claim 9: “nearly 33 million people – more than half of them children – in dire need of humanitarian assistance”

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Claim 10: “the conflict began between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 11: “the UN and its partners have brought more than a million Sudanese children back into some form of learning this year”

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No evidence was provided in the search results to confirm the specific number of 1 million children brought back into learning by the UN and partners.

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Claim 12: “Since 2024, the UN has documented more than 67 attacks on schools”

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Multiple sources, including UN transcripts and news reports, explicitly state that the UN documented over 67 attacks on schools since 2024.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Darfur is a region of western Sudan covering 493,180 square kilometers (190,420 sq mi). It consists largely of a semi-desert plateau, with the volcanic Marrah Mountains in its center, and is divided i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United Nations (UN) is an international intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the Charter of the United Nations on 26 June 1945 with the articulated mission of maintaining i…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19 was a resolution accepting Palestine as a non-member observer state in the United Nations General Assembly. It was adopted by the sixty-seventh session…
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Claim 13: “Nearly three-quarters of schools have been damaged, destroyed or otherwise rendered unusable in the country’s Darfur since fighting erupted in April 2023”

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Wikipedia entries provide general information about Darfur and the 2003 war, but do not provide the specific statistic that 75% of schools in Darfur have been damaged/destroyed since April 2023.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The War in Darfur, also nicknamed the Land Cruiser War, was a major armed conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan that began in February 2003 when the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and the Justice an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Darfur

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