The announcement came after charitable groups, which are buying back enslaved Sudanese children and freeing them, reacted angrily to criticism of their actions by Unicef.

Q: In your new film, Machine Gun Preacher, you play the wife of an ex-drug-addict-turned-evangelist who crusades to protect Sudanese children from the horrors of war.

He has defended in particular the resistance of South Sudan and has denounced the slavery of Sudanese children.

Sara Corbett's poignant portrayal of the Sudanese children (April 1) was gripping to read and even more compelling to think about long after I finished it.

She also helped set up schools for thousands of southern Sudanese children.

The boys school had an international intake, but was primarily for Sudanese children.

In the episodes, we are shown one of the Sudanese children she sponsored named Sonali.

Within the confines of the novel, the starving Sudanese child is named Delial by Navidson.

Now he wants to spread the word about the religious persecution taking place in Sudan and to raise money to send Sudanese children living in America to college.

It is estimated that as many as 200,000 Sudanese children and women had been taken into slavery during the Second Sudanese Civil War.