The story of those Al Shifa babies is not an anomaly, but a distillation. Children of war around the worldIn the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, decades of violence have created one of the largest populations of displaced children on Earth. A traumatised child does not simply experience fear; their capacity to trust, to form relationships, to function in society is fundamentally affected. A displaced child does not only lose a home; they lose continuity — the foundation upon which identity is built. An almost forgotten footnote of the AL Shifa babies tragedy is this: eight of the newborns who were evacuated to Egypt have since died.

Source: Irish Examiner April 07, 2026 14:50 UTC