It is the sound of despair. Newborn babies and those under one year of age do not stop crying because they are hungry and afraid. They are orphans who survive in subhuman conditions in a Khartoum orphanage in Sudan where he conflict armed began 10 years ago, in 2013.

A few weeks ago the building was hit by a projectile. One of the volunteers who works at the center says that, as the days go by, the situation has become more difficult and dangerous for everyone. In addition, she assures her, that the projectile fell near the room where these babies are now heard crying.

For weeks they have been trapped, no food or medicine. Just last weekend, 26 children died from malnutrition and fever, and at least 60 minors have done so in recent weeks. The doctors and volunteers who work in the area denounce that they are not being listened to and ask for compassion to save the lives of the more than 300 children who still remain in the orphanage. They warn that if they are not evacuated quickly, more and more children will die.

The images are heartbreaking. Inside the center there are only empty cradles and lifeless bodies wrapped in sheets, waiting to be buried. And outside the walls of the orphanage, fighting continues in the streets of a war-torn capital.

Fight of the military for control of the country

Hostilities broke out again on April 15. The reason: the integration of Paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (FAR) within the Sudanese army. Both groups are locked in an intense armed clash in different parts of the country. Their fight has killed more than 860 civilians, including 190 children, and injured thousands.

Almost 16 million people needed humanitarian aid before the armed conflict in Sudan, which began in 2013. Now, that number has risen to 25 million people at risk, according to the United Nations.