
The United Nations reports that sexual violence is increasingly being used as a 'weapon of war' in Sudan, with the scale and brutality of these attacks being unprecedented. The attacks are reportedly aimed at terrorizing communities, highlighting a severe humanitarian crisis in the region.
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