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UN experts sound alarm over reports of sexual violence during conflict in Sudan

UN experts sound alarm over reports of sexual violence during conflict in Sudan

  • The Rapid Support Forces are consistently identified as perpetrators despite militia’s publicly stated zero-tolerance stance on gender-based violence, the experts said
  • Some of instances of rape appear to be ethnically and racially motivated, and female defenders of human rights have been directly targeted
By Ephrem Kossaify ·
Human displacement in Sudan also continues with over 4 million people displaced due to the ongoing conflict. (AFP/File Photo)

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