Sudanese 13-year-old Afrah wants to become a surgeon, and nothing will stop her, not even the war that has ravaged her country and forced millions of children out of school.

Quiet and determined, and?uprooted by the now three-year conflict between Sudan¡¯s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), she kept learning on her own for months.

¡°I would study my lessons again and again,¡± she said at a displacement camp in Port Sudan, where she is again receiving an education thanks to UNICEF and local organisation SCEFA.