UN Warns of Mental Health Crisis from Sudan Sexual Violence
The United Nations has warned that widespread sexual violence used as a weapon of war in Sudan is triggering a massive mental health crisis. The conflict's brutality is having devastating psychological impacts on the population.
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Sudan’s sexual violence as weapon of war triggers huge mental health crisis: UN
The widespread use of rape and other sexual violence as a weapon of war in Sudan has spurred a massive mental health crisis, United Nations agencies and local aid groups warned. The Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in a brutal conflict since April 2023 that has killed tens of thousands and displaced around 11 million people. Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières last month said at least 3,396 survivors of sexual violence – nearly all of them wo...
By Agence France-Presse
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