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Sudan: Horrific and Widespread Sexual Violence Leaves Sudanese Women's Lives in Tatters
AI London, 10 April 2025
Gang rapes of 36 women and girls as young as 15 recorded between April 2023 and October 2024 Read more »
The Horror of Being a Woman or Girl During the Sudan War
Sudanese women and girls are bearing the brunt of a crisis that is entering its third year on April 15. Facing acute food insecurity, alarming rates of gender-based violence, and virtually no access to healthcare, education, and livelihood opportunities, they comprise most of the 12 million displaced people inside and outside the country.
In less than two years, the number of people at risk of gender-based violence has tripled to 12.1 million, according to the UN. Cases of conflict-related sexual violence remain hugely under-reported, but evidence points to its systematic use as a weapon of war.
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10 April 2025
'They Raped All of Us': Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in Sudan
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- Amnesty International
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The escalating conflict in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that erupted in April 2023 is devastating ... see more »
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10 April 2025
'We Have Nothing To Go Back To' - New Report Sheds Light On Two Years Of Devastation In Sudan
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- International Committee of the Red Cross
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The report outlines some of the concerning trends the ICRC has been observing in the past two years, such as obstruction of emergency healthcare and ... see more »
Gang rapes of dozens of women and girls as young as 15 were recorded between April 2023 and October 2024, according to the latest Sudan war report from Amnesty International.
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Sudan: Sudan Faces Unprecedented Hunger and Displacement As War Enters Third Year
UN News, 10 April 2025
The conflict in Sudan has become one of the worst humanitarian crises of the 21st century, leaving millions of women, children and displaced families suffering from violence, food… Read more »
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Sudan: The Spillover of Sudan's War Into Eastern Chad
Crisis Group, 10 April 2025
War in Sudan has pushed about one million refugees and returnees into isolated and impoverished parts of neighbouring Chad. Crisis Group expert Charles Bouëssel visited this… Read more »
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Sudan: Sudan Activists Rally Outside UAE Embassy in London As Genocide Case Opens At ICJ
Dabanga, 10 April 2025
As the International Court of Justice (ICJ) opened its preliminary hearing today into Sudan's genocide case against the United Arab Emirates, protesters gathered outside the UAE… Read more »
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Sudan: Stories of Violence and Forced Displacement From South Kordofan
MSF, 8 April 2025
"The morning of the attack I was at home and my mother was sick. We ran to escape with my children. I carried my mother on a donkey cart as she could not walk," says a displaced… Read more »
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Sudan: RSF Sexual Violence in Sudan Amounts to War Crimes, Says Amnesty Report
Dabanga, 9 April 2025
Amnesty International has accused Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of deliberately using sexual violence to humiliate and assert control over communities in Sudan, calling the… Read more »
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Sudan: Hunger in the Capital - the Conflict Subsides but Deaths Continue
Ayin English, 8 April 2025
While the shelling between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has subdued after the army's recent takeover, civilians, especially children, continue to die in… Read more »
InFocus
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The conflict reached a turning point in March when the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), which had been on the backfoot since the war began in April 2023, retook the Presidential Palace ... Read more »
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There have been increasing and alarming reports of rape being used as a weapon of terror during the two-year battle between the Sudanese army and paramilitary Read more »
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The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) has announced the recapture of the main airport and surrounding areas as they continue to press on with their advance against the paramil Read more »
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Aid agencies have spoken out about the lack of capacity at healthcare facilities in the country as more people affected by the conflict seek medical help. At some hospit Read more »
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A UN report has revealed that armed groups in the Southeast Central African Republic (CAR) commit grave abuses against Muslim communities and Sudanese refugees. The UN human Read more »
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Sudan's conflict is having a devastating effect on children, as a new report by Unicef paints a "searing" picture of the abuses being carried out, including against infants. Read more »
