More than a million threatened in Sudan city under siege by paramilitary forces

Dr. Yasir Elamin:

You know, Sudan has known gender-based violence, but the scale of the gender-based violence in this war has been unprecedented.

One of the very brutal aspects of this war is the amount of women, young girls in some cases, that were raped. When I was in Omdurman, I have heard horrible stories from physicians who’ve treated rape victims. We’re talking about victims who are 16 years old, 15 years old.

It’s now something that’s very routine when the RSF, in particular, takes over a place, that mothers and elderly try to hide their younger sisters and daughters. Clearly, the majority of reported cases by credible sources and, certainly, from talking to the physicians that I met in person in Omdurman now, most of the cases have been committed by RSF.