Three babies born into Sudan war every minute, charity warns

Al Jazeera · Apr 14, 2026 · 492 words · By Al Jazeera Staff

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10 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“At least three babies a minute are being born in Sudan into conditions “no child should ever face””

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Multiple independent sources, including ReliefWeb and Al Jazeera, explicitly state that three babies are born every minute in Sudan under these conditions.

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web search NEUTRAL — "Every single minute of this conflict, three babies are born into conditions no child should ever face. These children are born in overcrowded shelters, under-equipped or damaged health facilities, or…
https://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/sudan-three-children-born…

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web search NEUTRAL — Sudan civil war: 3 babies born every minute amid ongoing conflict After the closure of the Chad-Sudan border in March 2026, the Darfur region has faced severe shortages of essential medicines, nutriti…
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/sudan-civil-war-thre…

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web search NEUTRAL — At least three babies a minute are being born in Sudan into conditions “no child should ever face”, an international charity has warned, as a ruinous conflict between the Sudanese army and the paramil…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/14/three-babies-born-i…

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“official data showed 5.6 million births in Sudan since the start of the war in April 2023”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of dictionary definitions for the word 'there' and general Wikipedia entries about the war, but no data regarding the specific number of births (5.6 million).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Battle of Khartoum was a major strategic battle for control of Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, with fighting in and around the city between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and the Sud…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khartoum_(2023–2025)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Port Sudan (Arabic: بور سودان, romanized: Būr Sūdān, Beja: Bar'uut) is a major port city on the Red Sea in eastern Sudan, and the capital of Red Sea State. Port Sudan is Sudan's main seaport and the s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Sudan

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

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“5,000 children a day are born in a country where millions are surviving on just one meal a day”

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While evidence mentions malnutrition and babies born without assistance, no source provided confirms the specific figure of 5,000 children born daily.

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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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“On April 15, 2023, a rivalry between Sudan’s army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the commander of the RSF, Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo, exploded into a war”

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Wikipedia and multiple web sources confirm the war broke out on April 15, 2023, between Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (SAF) and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (RSF).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Abdelrahman al-Burhan (born 1960) is a Sudanese military officer who has been the leader of Sudan since 2019. Following the Sudanese Revolution in April 2019, he was handed cont…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdel_Fattah_al-Burhan

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo Musa (born c. 1973–1975), commonly known by the nom de guerre Hemedti, is a Sudanese military officer and politician who serves as the head of the paramilitary Rapid Support For…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemedti

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“the fighting has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced some 12 million”

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The provided evidence contains general definitions of 'conflict' and general Wikipedia pages on Sudan, but does not provide the specific figures for deaths (tens of thousands) or displacement (12 million).

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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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“the RSF has been implicated in atrocities in the vast Darfur region that UN experts say bear the hallmarks of genocide”

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Wikipedia explicitly lists a 'Darfur genocide (2023–present)' carried out by the RSF, and web results confirm UN experts stated the atrocities bear hallmarks of genocide.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Darfur campaign, also known as the Darfur offensive, is a theatre of operation in the war in Sudan that affects five states in Darfur: South Darfur, East Darfur, North Darfur, Central Darfur and W…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_campaign_(2023–present)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Darfur genocide, also known as the second Darfur genocide, is an ongoing series of persecutions and mass killings of non-Arabs in Darfur carried out by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allie…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_genocide_(2023–present)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Rapid Support Forces (RSF; Arabic: قُوَّاتْ الدّعْمْ السَّرِيعْ, romanized: Quwwāt ad-daʿm as-sarīʿ) are a Sudanese paramilitary force formerly operated by the Sudanese government. They originated…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Support_Forces

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“The rate that mothers die during childbirth has increased by more than 12 percent – from 263 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2022 to 295 per 100,000 in 2025”

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The evidence provided contains general maternal mortality ratios but does not mention the specific increase from 263 to 295 per 100,000 for Sudan in the years 2022-2025.

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web search NEUTRAL — Maternal mortality ratio per 100,000 live births, according to the WHO's Global Health Observatory.The global rate is 224 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2020 (latest available year for som…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_maternal_…

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web search NEUTRAL — A maternal death occurred almost every 2 minutes in 2023. Between 2000 and 2023, the maternal mortality ratio (MMR, number of maternal deaths per 100 000 live births) dropped by about 40% worldwide.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/maternal-mo…

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web search NEUTRAL — for every 100,000 live births, nearly one in a hundred.2 In a world where 140 million. women give birth each year this would mean that 1.26 million would die. The world in 2015: the actual number of w…
https://ourworldindata.org/maternal-mortality

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“Up to 80 percent of health facilities in conflict-affected areas have become nonoperational”

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Multiple sources, including NOW in SA and UNDP Sudan, report that up to 80% of health facilities in conflict-affected areas are non-operational.

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web search NEUTRAL — A nation in crisis: 80% of Sudan’s health facilities non-functional.In a report released last April, the Global Fund stated that “80% of health facilities in conflict-affected areas in Sudan are no lo…
https://nowinsa.co.za/2026/sudan-war-2026-msf-healthcare-cri…

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web search NEUTRAL — More than 70% of hospitals and health facilities in conflict-affected areas in Sudan are non-operational, according to a statement by WHO’s Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean on Monday.
https://bantugazette.com/world-bank-who-unicef-partner-to-im…

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web search NEUTRAL — The conflict has brought Sudan's medical system to a grinding halt with up to 80 percent of hospitals no longer functioning. Photos: UNDP Sudan (left), Postcards from Khartoum/Islam Bushra (right).
https://stories.undp.org/a-year-into-war-much-remains-to-be-…

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“The World Health Organization has verified some 200 attacks on health facilities since the start of the war that have killed more than 2,000 people”

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“In March, a drone attack on the al-Daein Teaching Hospital in East Darfur killed at least 64 people, including 13 children and several healthcare workers”

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