New developments by human rights groups in Sudan have reported teenage girls are being sexually assaulted and raped by armed combatants in Sudan.
The data implicate alarming numbers, with many survivors aged between 12 and 17 years old as reported by the non-profit organisation ‘Save the Children’.
The children make up some of the cases of sexual and gender-based violence as a result of the escalating conflict, with incidents of rape, sexual assault, and sexual exploitation being reported by women and girls who have fled the conflict in Khartoum and other areas.
According to Save the Children, while sexual violence is understood to be rampant, only 88 cases of rape as a result of the conflict have been verified.
This includes at least 42 alleged cases in the capital, Khartoum, and 46 in the Darfur region.
However, according to the Sudanese Unit for Combating Violence against Women, a Government Unit, this figure likely represents 2% of total cases — meaning there have been a possible 4,400 cases of sexual violence in 11 weeks alone.
Some survivors are arriving in neighbouring countries pregnant as a result of rape and according to UNHCR, there have also been reports of girls being kidnapped and held for days while being sexually assaulted.
Sudanese children make up some of the cases of sexual and gender-based violence as a result of the escalating conflict, with incidents of rape, sexual assault, and sexual exploitation being reported by women and girls who have fled the conflict in Khartoum and other areas.
While sexual violence is understood to be rampant, only 88 cases of rape as a result of the conflict have been verified.
