{"id":493,"date":"2026-06-03T13:50:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=493"},"modified":"2026-06-03T13:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:50:25","slug":"women-say-they-were-raped-and-ransomed-by-fighters-in-sudans-ongoing-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"Women say they were raped and ransomed by fighters in Sudan\u2019s ongoing war"},"content":{"rendered":"
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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) \u2014 Naked, hungry, raped and lying in her own urine, the woman said her captors after two days of misery handed her a phone. Call your friends and family, they said. Tell them to buy your freedom or you\u2019ll be killed.<\/p>

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The 38-year-old said she screamed on the calls as horrified loved ones listened to her being tortured in a remote village in western Sudan<\/span>.<\/p>

Now safely in the capital, Khartoum, she looked through photos she took of her battered face and body after being freed in September. She wants them to serve as evidence to hold the attackers accountable.<\/p>

\u201cI thought about seeking justice one day,\u201d she told The Associated Press. The AP does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted.<\/p>

The United Nations calls sexual violence one of the \u201cmost defining features\u201d of Sudan\u2019s war, now in its fourth year. It says sexual assaults have soared since the war began but it did not have data on assaults by combatants.<\/p>\n

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The U.N. says many women have been subject to sexual slavery and forced to pay ransoms for their release, sometimes up to $10,000.<\/p>

The AP met three women who said they were abducted, held as sex slaves and forced to buy their freedom. They were introduced by aid workers who said they were aware of what had happened. The AP could not verify the accounts by the women who spoke out in a country where discussing sexual assault remains deeply taboo.<\/p>\n

All three blamed the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces that are battling Sudan\u2019s military.<\/p>\n

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The U.N. and rights groups have accused all parties of sexual assault, including allied armed groups, but they say the majority of the violence has been committed by the RSF, particularly in the Khartoum area, Darfur and Gezira state. The U.N. says South Kordofan has also become a hot spot as the war expands there.<\/p>

The RSF did not respond to questions about abductions or assaults.<\/p>

Captors demanded $1,500 for her freedom<\/h2>
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