Sexual violence is increasingly being used as a "weapon of war" in Sudan to terrorize the civilian population, a UN report says. The violence is "unprecedented in terms of the scale, prevalence and brutality of its widespread use as a weapon of war", the report adds.
Sudan has been hit by a devastating civil war since 2023, following a fallout between the army the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
In its report, the UN Human Rights Office said it had verified 546 incidents of conflict-related sexual violence, including gang-rape and sexual slavery, in Sudan since the war started more than three years ago.
It affected at least 838 victims - 539 women, 284 girls, eight men and seven boys.
Most of the verified cases were attributed to fighters in the RSF and allied militias, but the army and its allies were also accused of carrying out sexual violence, the report added.
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