Sudan: ‘The International Community Must Stop Turning a Blind Eye to the Suffering of Sudanese Women’

Content warning: this interview contains details some readers may find distressing.

CIVICUS discusses Sudan’s civil war and its impact on women with Sulaima Elkhalifa, a Sudanese human rights defender and expert on gender-based violence.

In October, fighters from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group fighting the Sudanese army, killed over 120 people in a brutal, multi-day attack on a town in Gezira State. The rampage, which involved arson, indiscriminate shooting, looting and…