Fighting raged in Sudan today, on the 100th day of a war that continues to look hopeless, without a winner and in which a child is killed or injured every hour, according to the UN.

Since April 15, the regular army under General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitaries of General Mohamed Hamdan Daghlo have not stopped declaring that they want to “win or die.”

At least 3,900 people have died, according to a tally that is grossly underestimated as bodies lying on the streets remain inaccessible.

Among them are “at least 435 children” while at least 2,025 others have been injured, according to Unicef.

“Every day, children are killed, injured, kidnapped, and all they have are schools, hospitals and infrastructure that have been destroyed or looted,” according to the UN agency.

Parents, grandparents and grandchildren

“Parents and grandparents who lived through previous cycles of violence are now forced to watch their own children and grandchildren go through the same horrific experiences,” according to Unicef.

The UN agency says it records “2,500 serious violations of children’s rights, at least one per hour” and certainly “many more in reality” while 14 million children are in need of humanitarian support.

Over 3.3 million people have fled their homes in Sudan – of which over 700,000 have fled abroad. And millions more are now facing starvation.

Now more than half of the 48 million Sudanese need humanitarian aid for their survival but NGOs and the UN find it difficult to help them because permission is not given by the authorities and there is a lack of funding from international donors.

For the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), “Sudan is on the brink of collapse, facing a series of crises that, combined, are unprecedented.”

“The first 100 days of the war brought terror and desolation and the next 100 will surely be worse. “The violence is not escalating and the coming weeks could bring devastating floods, displacement and epidemics,” the NGO said.

A humanitarian situation that raises fears for the worst as summer and its rains are generally the season of famine and epidemics, from malaria to cholera, in Sudan, but that does not deter the warlords.