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Armed forces in Sudan’s ongoing civil war are perpetrating systematic sexual violence against young children, with one-year-olds the youngest survivors of rape, according to a new report from ...

Warning: This article contains details of sexual violence that some people may find distressing Armed men are raping and sexually assaulting children as young as one during Sudan's civil war ...

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Armed men are raping and sexually assaulting children as young as one during Sudan's civil war, says the UN children's agency, Unicef. So traumatised are the survivors that some say they have ...