UN figures confirm that nearly two million children have been forced to leave their homes since the onset of the war in Sudan.
"Yes... my young son died due to severe hunger, fear, fatigue, and exhaustion," said Umm Salma, the mother of a family of five children, when I asked her about the cause of her young son's death.

She said while speaking to me with a voice filled with tears over the phone: "We lived through dark days after fleeing from the city of El Geneina due to the fighting, and we walked long distances on foot... we found nothing to eat for three days, and my young son, who was already suffering from malnutrition, died."

"There is no food."

Umm Salma was forced to flee to the border area of Ardamata between Sudan and Chad after fierce fighting broke out between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces in West Darfur.

She expressed her fear that her middle daughter might face the same fate because she is also suffering from malnutrition: "There is not enough food in the camp where we are currently staying; we have one meal consisting of porridge and dried fish a day, and nothing else."

Child-related organizations revealed that more than 500 Sudanese children have died of hunger since the war between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces began last April.

Arif Noor, the director of Save the Children in Sudan, said that one-third of the population in Sudan was suffering from hunger before the war began. He added: "We never imagined seeing this large number of children dying of hunger, but this is the new reality in Sudan."