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UNICEF and ICRC work with Sudan's government to evacuate¹ 297 orphans²

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After 60 children died, nearly 300 others have been rescued from an orphanage⁴ in Sudan's capital, where fighting has been raging for weeks.

ASMA KHALID, HOST:

This next story is an especially grim reminder⁵ of the toll⁶ of war in Sudan. The United Nations' children's agency says more than 60 children, most of them infants, died in the weeks since fighting erupted in Khartoum. UNICEF says they were at an orphanage that could not keep up with their needs. NPR's Aya Batrawy reports on an operation this week to move nearly 300 children from this orphanage to safety.

AYA BATRAWY, BYLINE⁷: Aid workers say most of the children who died at the Mygoma orphanage in Sudan's capital of Khartoum were just infants. When fighting erupted April 15 between Sudan's military and a heavily armed militia⁸ force, the clashes were so fierce that life in the capital came to a standstill. Hospitals were bombed or forced to close. Electricity and water supplies were cut in some areas. People had to shelter at home or join hundreds of thousands fleeing the country. UNICEF's deputy representative in Sudan, Mary Louise Eagleton, says most of the children at Mygoma were under 2 years old. They didn't have enough adults to feed them or hold them after the fighting erupted.

MARY LOUISE EAGLETON: These children have been caught in the conflict - really, in the heart of the conflict in Khartoum - these last six, seven weeks in really, really challenging conditions.

BATRAWY: The U.N. Children's Fund and the International Committee of the Red Cross worked with Sudan's government to evacuate 297 children out of the orphanage this week.

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BATRAWY: Video released from the Red Cross shows their vehicles relocating the children outside the capital. They now have electricity, clean water, milk, food and more caregivers. Eight of the children were taken to a hospital for intensive care treatment. Eagleton says the children who perished in the orphanage over the past seven weeks died mostly from fever, dehydration⁹ and malnutrition¹⁰, an indirect result of the war.

EAGLETON: Among the ones who died, as far as we understand, the large majority were under the age of 3 months, so very low birth weight and already very fragile. But then there were insufficient¹¹ carers at the center because many had to flee with their own families when the fighting started.

BATRAWY: UNICEF says it needs around $840 million to reach more children in Sudan.

EAGLETON: This situation in the orphanage for children is really a microcosm of what's happening at national scale. So when we say 13 million children are in need of critical lifesaving assistance, that's half of the children in Sudan.

BATRAWY: But only a fraction of the U.N.'s overall $3 billion funding appeal for Sudan has so far been met.

Aya Batrawy, NPR News, Dubai.

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1 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

2 orphans   

孤儿( orphan的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The poor orphans were kept on short commons. 贫苦的孤儿们吃不饱饭。
• Their uncle was declared guardian to the orphans. 这些孤儿的叔父成为他们的监护人。

3 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

4 orphanage   

n.孤儿院

参考例句：

• They dispensed new clothes to the children in the orphanage.他们把新衣服发给孤儿院的小孩们。
• They gave the proceeds of the sale to the orphanage.他们把销售的收入给了这家孤儿院。

5 reminder   

n.提醒物，纪念品；暗示，提示

参考例句：

• I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
• It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知，她才付应该交的房租。

6 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

7 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

8 militia   

n.民兵，民兵组织

参考例句：

• First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面，其次是民兵。
• There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。

9 dehydration   

n.脱水，干燥

参考例句：

• He died from severe dehydration.他死于严重脱水。
• The eyes are often retracted from dehydration.眼睛常因脱水而凹陷。

10 malnutrition   

n.营养不良

参考例句：

• In Africa, there are a lot of children suffering from severe malnutrition.在非洲有大批严重营养不良的孩子。
• It is a classic case of malnutrition. 这是营养不良的典型病例。

11 insufficient   

adj.(for，of)不足的，不够的

参考例句：

• There was insufficient evidence to convict him.没有足够证据给他定罪。
• In their day scientific knowledge was insufficient to settle the matter.在他们的时代，科学知识还不能足以解决这些问题。