{"id":217596,"date":"2025-12-21T22:39:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T20:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-world-urged-not-to-ignore-gruesome-sexual-violence\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T22:39:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T20:39:57","slug":"sudan-world-urged-not-to-ignore-gruesome-sexual-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-world-urged-not-to-ignore-gruesome-sexual-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: World Urged Not to Ignore &#8216;Gruesome Sexual Violence&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Harrowing new details emerged on Thursday in a UN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/documents\/country-reports\/report-ohchr-sudan-country-office-offensive-rapid-support-forces-zamzam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> detailing targeted sexual violence and summary executions in Sudan&#8217;s North Darfur region, attributed to paramilitary fighters who overran the city of El Fasher in late October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Issued by the UN human rights office, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/pages\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OHCHR<\/a>, the report describes how civilians &#8211; including many from besieged El Fasher &#8211; endured torture and abductions during a three-day offensive by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on nearby Zamzam camp for displaced persons in April&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512180466.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>Harrowing new details emerged on Thursday in a UN report detailing targeted sexual violence and summary executions in Sudan&#8217;s North Darfur region, attributed to paramilitary fighters who overran the city of El Fasher in late October. Issued by the UN human rights office, OHCHR, the report describes how civilians &#8211; including many from besieged El [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":217597,"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\/00650771:2d36fb58fd0b051b9de888fd0ad0f694:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,20789,13180,257,9796,254,4708,1613,6206,2148,5093],"class_list":["post-217596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gruesome","tag-ignore","tag-news","tag-sexual","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-urged","tag-violence","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650771:2d36fb58fd0b051b9de888fd0ad0f694:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217596","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=217596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}