 About 300 children have been evacuated from an orphanage in Sudan's capital, Khatam. Dozens of children were found last month to have died since mid-April, due to nearby fighting between rival military factions. About 300 children have been evacuated from an orphanage in Sudan's capital, Khartoum. Last month, dozens of orphans were found to have died there since mid-April, due to nearby fighting between rival military factions. The International Committee of the Red Cross, which facilitated the evacuation late on Wednesday, said the children, aged between 1 and 15, had been taken to a safer location in Wad Madani, about 125 miles southeast of Khartoum. Jean-Christophe Sandoz is the head of the RCRC delegation in Sudan. We are really very happy that we could carry out this operation, so this was requested by both parties. And we could, as a neutral and impartial organisation, carry out this operation, get all the security guarantees to be able to carry out this operation. The RCRC said in its initial statement that 280 children and 70 caretakers had been evacuated. On Thursday morning, an RCRC spokesperson said the number of evacuated children had risen to 300. That number was confirmed by Khartoum State Ministry of Social Development, which oversees care centres. On the 29th of May, Reuters reported that at least 50 children had died, dozens of them babies, at the Staterun orphanage known as Mi Goma, since the start of the conflict in Khartoum on April 15. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.