PORT SUDAN, Sudan, 3 April 2026 – The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) express grave concern over the increasing scale and frequency of attacks on health care in conflict-affected areas of Sudan. On 2 April, Al Jabalayn Teaching Hospital located in south-west of Kosti Town in White Nile State, was attacked, resulting in the death of ten health workers, one of them the medical director. Twenty-two people were injured. The hospital’s emergency room and operating theatre were completely destroyed. A section of Al Jabalayn Teaching Hospital damaged by the attack on 2 April 2026. This attack follows earlier attacks on Kurmuk Teaching Hospital in Blue Nile State on 24 March and on a medical supplies warehouse in Rabak, White Nile State on 1 April, which destroyed critical infrastructure and injured a health worker, and Al Daein Al Usra Hospital where health workers were reported to be assaulted. In the three years since the start of the...