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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Mark Townsend in Juba

Ten years after a celebrity summit promised to end rape as a weapon of war, is there any change for the women of South Sudan?

Men in dark suts gather around Angelina Jolie, who is wearing a dark dress and speaking from behind a metal lectern.
Former British foreign secretary William Hague (left) and other ministers at a G8 press conference in 2013 listen as UN envoy and actor Angelina Jolie urges an end to rape in warzones. In 2014 she co-hosted a global summit in London with the UK government. Photograph: Alastair Grant/AFP/Getty Images

They were minding their own business, scanning the forest for fruit, when the troops approached. Six of them, all holding guns. Victoria Peter, 19, remembers glancing at her five sisters, thinking it might be OK.

It was shortly after 10am on 15 December 2015 – the second anniversary of a vicious civil war that had devastated South Sudan.

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