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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Zeinab Mohammed Salih in Geniena and Adré

Darfur rape survivors gather together after ethnically targeted campaign

Survivors of sexual violence who fled the conflict in Geneina  get together outside their makeshift shelters in Adré last year.
Survivors of sexual violence who fled the conflict in Geneina get together outside their makeshift shelters in Adré last year. Photograph: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters

Twice a week, a group of women gather together in a nondescript house in Ardamata, on the outskirts of Geneina in Sudan’s West Darfur state, to tell their stories to each other, cry, and drink coffee.

The women, who work or used to work in education, are all survivors of an ethnically targeted campaign of rape and sexual abuse carried out by fighters from Arab militias backed by the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group on 5 November, after the fall of the army garrison in Ardamata.

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