Children rescued from an orphanage in Sudan Khartoum
The evacuations were carried out following the deaths of 67 children at the Mygoma orphanage in Khartoum.
They died of starvation, dehydration and infections as fighting prevented staff from reaching the orphanage.
Khartoum has been hit by daily air strikes and heavy clashes between rival forces since 15 April.
The orphanage is in an area that has been at the heart of the fighting between the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Another 95 children, both from the Mygoma orphanage and other smaller facilities across the capital, were evacuated over the weekend by a group of local activists.
The state-run Mygoma orphanage was home to about 400 children when the war broke out in April.
It became too dangerous for many doctors and carers to reach the orphanage to look after the children.
Power and water cuts made the sweltering temperatures, reaching as high as 43C, unbearable.
Children, especially the youngest ones, started dying.
"We are losing them so fast. In recent days, we lost three children," Sudanese activist Sadeia al-Rasheed Ali Hamid told me earlier this week.
The UN children's agency, Unicef, said that 67 orphans had died at Mygoma since 15 April.
Local activists and international aid organisations were trying to get the children out of the warzone, but it was not easy.
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