{"id":195276,"date":"2025-04-03T10:51:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T08:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-sexual-violence-used-as-weapon-of-terror-against-women-and-girls\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T10:51:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T08:51:43","slug":"sudan-sexual-violence-used-as-weapon-of-terror-against-women-and-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-sexual-violence-used-as-weapon-of-terror-against-women-and-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Sexual Violence Used As Weapon of Terror Against Women and Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Amid alarming reports of sexual violence being used as a weapon of terror across Sudan, UN reproductive health agency, UNFPA, is warning that over 12 million women and girls &#8211; and increasingly men and boys &#8211; are estimated to be at risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">It is nearly two years since the brutal war between the forces of the military government in Khartoum and the Rapid Support Forces militia erupted, sparking one of the world&#8217;s worst humanitarian crises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Human rights abuses have been committed on both sides and more&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504030011.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>Amid alarming reports of sexual violence being used as a weapon of terror across Sudan, UN reproductive health agency, UNFPA, is warning that over 12 million women and girls &#8211; and increasingly men and boys &#8211; are estimated to be at risk. It is nearly two years since the brutal war between the forces of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":195277,"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\/00661870:0cd07c8334574b788769af01e49988b8:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,7010,257,9796,254,4708,1613,5045,2148,13004,6524],"class_list":["post-195276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-girls","tag-news","tag-sexual","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-terror","tag-violence","tag-weapon","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661870:0cd07c8334574b788769af01e49988b8:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195276","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=195276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}