| Submit your comments on this article |
| Africa Horn |
| Deaths of 77 orphans prompt inquiry in Sudan |
| 2009-10-28 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] The deaths of 77 children at Sudan's main orphanage has sparked an investigation, officials said on Tuesday, in a case that has lifted the lid on the plight of abandoned infants in Africa's largest state. "We have seen the official figures and they are horrifying. I welcome the decision that there will be an investigation into the current situation at Mygoma," Nils Kastberg, UNICEF's Sudan representative, told Reuters, referring to the state-owned orphanage where the deaths occurred. The manager of the charity operating in the Khartoum orphanage defended his record, telling Reuters he had saved thousands of children and adding that deaths were inevitable given the condition of babies when they arrived. "The numbers were high... But last month we received 46 premature babies. Many of them were suffering from septicemia. What am I going to do?" Mohamed Muhedin Elgemiabby, head of Ana Assudan, the charity contracted to care for the children in Mygoma, said. "Most are delivered early. They were born in unhygienic areas. They are found in water canals, in sewers ... They need incubators but it is very difficult to find incubators." The United Nations estimates hundreds of babies are abandoned in Khartoum every year by women in the predominantly Muslim country unable to bear the stigma of having a child outside marriage. Half of the infants die before getting help. Most of those found on the streets of the capital are taken to Mygoma where authorities try to find new homes with families. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 RIAN.RU > OPED: AFRICAN IMPASSE:TERRORISTS OR PIRATES, EITHER WAY. ARTIC > Worse for Africa than local Piracy is the GREATER THREAT OF ISLAMIST TERRORISM. A REAL WOT CANNOT BE WAGED [ nor WON] IN AFRICA UNLESS AFRICA'S ECONOMIES CAN BE EFFEC DEV [+ protected], THUS REMOVING A PERVAS BREEDING GOUND FOR ISLAMIST-, ANDOR OTHER VIOLENCE-CENTRIC ARMED MILITANCIES. The US-Allies cannot help Africa's troubled regions very much, espec its SAHEL REGION, due to the settling of other conflicts elsewhere [AFPAK, IRAQ]. * Lest we fergit, ME > MR. SPOCK in "THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY" > OLD VULCAN SAYING: "ONLY OBAMA [Nixon] COULD GO TO AFRICA [China]".! Wehell, thus far I don't see the Bammer going to L'Affrique??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-10-28 21:35 |
| #2 Yes, succession is necessary now. Mygoma is the refugee camp? or just the place where women who were raped by moslems and gave birth to babies they did not want- end up sending the babies? |
| Posted by: newc 2009-10-28 17:45 |
| #1 See also WAFF > SOUTH SUDAN TO VOTE ON SPLIT FROM MUSLIM NORTH IN REFERENDUM. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-10-28 02:33 |