Two years in, Sudan’s civil war has shifted in recent weeks, with the country’s military regaining control of the capital, Khartoum amid fierce fighting. The civil war has devastated the country, with fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). An estimated 10,000 people were killed and more than six million displaced. The war has also been marked by widespread sexual violence, with the United Nations saying the RSF are “responsible for committing sexual violence on a large scale in areas under their control, including gang-rapes and abducting and detaining victims in conditions that amount to sexual slavery.”
In this podcast our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts have invited Sudanese activist Hala Al-Karib to highlight the targeted violence against women in Sudan. “It’s beyond dire situations,” says the regional director of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA). “The gender aspect is very central in this conflict. Women bodies are used as war tools. It became almost normalized. It’s quite systemic and very intentional.”
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This podcast has been published as part of a partnership between Justice Info and Asymmetrical Haircuts, a podcast on international justice produced from The Hague by journalists Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg, who retain full control and independence over the contents of the podcast.
