{"id":195194,"date":"2025-04-02T10:48:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T08:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-i-witnessed-unimaginable-horrors-sexual-violence-used-as-weapon-of-terror-against-women-and-girls-across-sudan\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T10:48:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T08:48:48","slug":"sudan-i-witnessed-unimaginable-horrors-sexual-violence-used-as-weapon-of-terror-against-women-and-girls-across-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-i-witnessed-unimaginable-horrors-sexual-violence-used-as-weapon-of-terror-against-women-and-girls-across-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: &#8216;I Witnessed Unimaginable Horrors&#8217; &#8211; Sexual Violence Used As Weapon of Terror Against Women and Girls Across Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Northern State, Sudan \u2014 In late 2024, armed men forced their way into Layla&#8217;s* home in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, while she was alone with her children. &#8220;They arrested my son and took me to a separate car,&#8221; she told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">&#8220;I noticed they were looking at my daughter in a disturbing way &#8211; she&#8217;s 18 years old. Probably they took me away to keep her alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\">Layla&#8217;s fears for her daughter were a precursor of what she would later confront&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504020015.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern State, Sudan \u2014 In late 2024, armed men forced their way into Layla&#8217;s* home in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, while she was alone with her children. &#8220;They arrested my son and took me to a separate car,&#8221; she told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. &#8220;I noticed they were looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":195195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661818:450798f3dd3a70b5a6e9a01f3d8a3e01:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,7010,25987,257,9796,254,4708,1613,5045,25986,2148,13004,16970,6524],"class_list":["post-195194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-girls","tag-horrors","tag-news","tag-sexual","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-terror","tag-unimaginable","tag-violence","tag-weapon","tag-witnessed","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661818:450798f3dd3a70b5a6e9a01f3d8a3e01:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}