Use women as aweapon in Sudan War

Increase in sexual violence

And the use of women as a weapon of war

In the Sudan war.

 Her pain and guilt did not help her change her mind as she held her newborn in her hands, who was only a day old and handed him over to the local authorities in Darfur for care.

Seventeen-year-old Salma, who is of the origins of the Zaghawa tribe in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State in Sudan, presented her son to the officials of the Kalma camp for care because he came as a result of her rape by the Rapid Support Forces when they invaded the city of El Fasher on the fourteenth of last May.

This places her son among a long list of child victims whose mothers refused to care for them in the wake of the systematic rape carried out by the Rapid Support Forces against Sudanese women and their use as a weapon of war.

 As for Halima, who was under 12 years old from the Utash camp for displaced persons in South Darfur state, she was among 14 girls who were subjected to sexual abuse, six of whom became pregnant due to their lack of access to medical care.

Three other girls underwent abortions. Sudanese law allows abortion before three months, but a large number arrive after three months of pregnancy, and abortion in this case is more difficult.

In addition to the lack of medical personnel and medications, which puts women's lives at risk.

There is an increase in rape cases and an increase in births as a result of rape.

The African Center for Justice and Peace Studies documented a large number of rape cases in displacement camps, noting that the cases are increasing every day and the inability to accurately count them.

The numbers are conflicting regarding rape cases, as the doctors’ committee affiliated with the International Fact-Finding Mission and Monitoring Violations in the Sudan War indicated that at least 417 cases were recorded, while human rights and charitable groups reported that the recorded number reached 370 cases, and that the unregistered cases are many and on the rise.