{"id":195934,"date":"2025-04-12T23:13:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T21:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rapid-support-forces-horrific-and-widespread-sexual-violence-leaves-lives-in-tatters-new-report\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T23:13:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T21:13:54","slug":"sudan-rapid-support-forces-horrific-and-widespread-sexual-violence-leaves-lives-in-tatters-new-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rapid-support-forces-horrific-and-widespread-sexual-violence-leaves-lives-in-tatters-new-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Rapid Support Forces Horrific and Widespread Sexual Violence Leaves Lives in Tatters &#8211; New Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em>Gang rapes of 36 women and girls as young as 15 recorded between April 2023 and October 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><strong>* Woman torn away from breast feeding baby and attacked and 11-year-old boy beaten to death as he tried to help his mother<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><strong>* RSF soldiers tied a woman to a tree before one raped her as the others watched &#8211; &#8216;It was the most horrific day in my life&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><strong>* For survivors, cuts to vital USAID-funded programmes have diminished prospects for accessing comprehensive sexual health care<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><strong>* &#8216;The RSF&#8217;s attacks on civilians&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504110053.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>Gang rapes of 36 women and girls as young as 15 recorded between April 2023 and October 2024 * Woman torn away from breast feeding baby and attacked and 11-year-old boy beaten to death as he tried to help his mother * RSF soldiers tied a woman to a tree before one raped her as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":195935,"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\/00661869:97ff1981f1d522c71d41b58ef9599aec:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,5097,6926,9647,8485,257,13717,5144,9796,254,4708,1613,6096,37224,2148,16713],"class_list":["post-195934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-forces","tag-horrific","tag-leaves","tag-lives","tag-news","tag-rapid","tag-report","tag-sexual","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-support","tag-tatters","tag-violence","tag-widespread"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661869:97ff1981f1d522c71d41b58ef9599aec:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195934","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=195934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}