Sudan official warns women main victims of ongoing conflict abuses

Sudan official warns women main victims of ongoing conflict abuses
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Women are the principal victims of abuse in Sudan’s war, facing “the world’s worst” sexual violence and other crimes committed with impunity, Arab News reported.

The article quotes a rights activist who turned social affairs minister for the army-backed government, noting that that women were also being subjected to sexual slavery and trafficked to neighboring countries, alongside forced marriages arranged to avoid shame.

Her ministry has documented more than 1,800 rapes between April 2023 and October 2025 — a figure that does not include atrocities documented in western Darfur and the neighboring Kordofan region from late October onwards.

The Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in a brutal conflict since April 2023 that has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced around 11 million and been marked by widespread sexual violence.