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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jack Jeffery

Rights group and UN experts single out Sudanese paramilitary with accusations of sexual violence

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A leading rights group and U.N. experts accused Sudan’s powerful paramilitary on Thursday of sexual violence and attacks on women in the restive western Darfur region as the African country entered its fifth month of conflict.

Sudan plunged into chaos in mid-April, when months of simmering tensions between the military and its rival, the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, exploded into open fighting.

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