{"id":200672,"date":"2025-06-22T02:15:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T00:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-as-widespread-as-guns-and-bullets-sexual-violence-used-to-terrorize-sudans-women-and-girls\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T02:15:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T00:15:05","slug":"sudan-as-widespread-as-guns-and-bullets-sexual-violence-used-to-terrorize-sudans-women-and-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-as-widespread-as-guns-and-bullets-sexual-violence-used-to-terrorize-sudans-women-and-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: &#8216;As Widespread As Guns and Bullets&#8217; &#8211; Sexual Violence Used to Terrorize Sudan&#8217;s Women and Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Gedaref State, Sudan \u2014 &#8220;Every woman and girl here is at risk, no matter her age or background. No one is safe,&#8221; said Khadija*, a midwife at a maternity clinic in Sudan&#8217;s eastern Gedaref State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">&#8220;Sexual violence has become as widespread [a weapon] as guns and bullets. Women arrive at our facilities exhausted, traumatized, often after months of displacement,&#8221; she told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, which supports the clinic. &#8220;They are carrying physical and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506200022.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>Gedaref State, Sudan \u2014 &#8220;Every woman and girl here is at risk, no matter her age or background. No one is safe,&#8221; said Khadija*, a midwife at a maternity clinic in Sudan&#8217;s eastern Gedaref State. &#8220;Sexual violence has become as widespread [a weapon] as guns and bullets. Women arrive at our facilities exhausted, traumatized, often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":200673,"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\/00670644:7b32db9e2b6bdac1bd18af7b8effc859:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,12104,7010,2235,257,9796,254,4708,1613,8105,51695,2148,16713,6524],"class_list":["post-200672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bullets","tag-girls","tag-guns","tag-news","tag-sexual","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-terrorize","tag-violence","tag-widespread","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670644:7b32db9e2b6bdac1bd18af7b8effc859:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200672","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=200672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}