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Children as young as one have been raped by armed men during the conflict in Sudan, the UN said on Tuesday, condemning it as a horror that should “shock anyone to their core”.
UNICEF said the scale of child rape in war-ravaged Sudan was far more widespread than just the documented cases and urged all sides to end sexual violence as a war tactic.
Gender-based violence (GBV) service providers in Sudan recorded some 221 cases of child rape since the beginning of 2024.
Of those cases, 66 per cent of the survivors were girls and 33 per cent were boys.
There were 16 survivors under the age of five – including four who were as young as one.
The UN children’s agency recorded an additional 77 reported cases of sexual assault against children – primarily attempted rape. {Daily Trust}
