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The U.N. children’s agency UNICEF told Reuters on Friday that more than 1 million polio vaccines intended for children have been destroyed as a result of looting in Sudan during the upsurge in violence since April. The agency was in the middle of a series of polio vaccination campaigns in Sudan following an outbreak at the end of 2022.
A World Health Organization database shows there have been 28 attacks on health care facilities in Sudan since the conflict erupted last month, pitting Sudan’s army against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Numerous humanitarian agencies have reported looting during the Sudan crisis including the World Food Programme, which said it lost $13-$14 million worth of supplies.’o