16-04-2025
Sudan: Scores of women raped and abducted by RSF in Zamzam camp
Horrible rape and abduction crimes have been committed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during its attack against Zamzam IDPs camp in North Darfur, activists revealed.
Al-Fashir/ Kampala: Altaghyeer
Eight women arrived in al-Fashir, capital of North Darfur, reported that they have been subjected to rape by fighters of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on April 13 when they attacked the nearby Zamzam IDPs camp, the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA Network) said Tuesday.
At least 25 other women and girls have been abducted from the camp by the RSF according to eyewitnesses, SIHA added.
The attack has resulted in killing of at least 330 civilians, including 56 women and girls and 20 children, and injuring of more than 200 women, some of them fatally, said the Network in a statement.
SIHA Network regretted killing of two female volunteers who have been supervising SIHA-sponsored Communal Kitchens inside the camp.
The statement explained that about 2,000 people only managed to fled to al-Fashir while hundreds of women, children and elders are still besieged in the camp amid catastrophic humanitarian situation.
