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'No woman feels safe': Sexual violence rampant in Sudan war

A soldier talks to women on a street in Khartoum on June 6, 2023, as fighting continues in war-torn Sudan. [AFP]

Zeinab was fleeing war-torn Sudan's capital to seek safety when she found herself pinned to the ground, a rifle to her chest, as a paramilitary fighter raped her.

"I was sure we were about to die," she told AFP, recounting how she, her younger sister and two other women, one with an infant daughter, were all sexually violated.

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