Sudan’s Minister of State for Human Resources and Social Welfare, Salma Ishaq, reported this Saturday that about 2,250 cases of rape against women by paramilitaries have been documented since the beginning of the war in April 2023, although she warned that the figure represents only a small part.
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In a statement released by Sudanese state television, Ishaq noted that cases of kidnapping, slavery, human trafficking, births resulting from rape, and recruitment of minors to fight alongside the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who are clashing with the Sudanese Army, have also been registered.
The minister affirmed that “challenges exist for the registration of victims, the protection of survivors, and the reintegration of children affected by the war, in addition to the measures taken by the State to facilitate services and protection.”
As she explained, documented cases of rape are concentrated, among other areas, in the states of Khartoum, Gezira, Darfur, and Kordofan, although there are numerous episodes that have not been officially recorded.
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Ishaq attributed 98% of the documented rapes against women and children to the RSF, while she held civilians who “took advantage of the proliferation of weapons” responsible for the rest.
The minister also indicated that about 400 births have been registered as a result of rapes since the beginning of the conflict.
However, she warned that this figure also does not reflect the true dimension of the problem, due to the fear of many survivors of social stigma and because some births occurred in neighboring countries where pregnant women sought refuge.
Likewise, she denounced the kidnapping of dozens of women from the states of Khartoum and Gezira, who, she stated, were sold as slaves in Chad and the Central African Republic.
She noted that human rights organizations and the United Nations have confirmed information about these cases and assured that there are still kidnapped girls subjected to slavery in prisons and detention centers in Darfur.
Ishaq related that some people contacted her after kidnapped girls were recovered and returned from Chad, following efforts with the security authorities of that country.
Regarding minors linked to the conflict, the minister explained that the government of the Nile state received 70 children who had fought with the RSF and were handed over by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The minors received psychological and social care, as well as vocational training to facilitate their reintegration before returning to their families.
Currently, she added, about 300 minors under 18 years of age who collaborated with the RSF remain in a center located in the Soba area, east of Khartoum.
According to Ishaq, UNICEF will be in charge of their training and rehabilitation, while other organizations collaborate with the Sudanese authorities in psychological and social support programs for women and children.
The war in Sudan has caused the death of tens of thousands of people and has militarily divided the country from west – controlled by the RSF – to northeast – controlled by the Army -, while it has also forced about 14 million people to leave their homes, which has made the country the scene of the worst displacement crisis on the planet, according to the UN.
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