Women Compelled To Have Sex With Soldiers For Food in Sudan: Report

In Sudan, the poor women are being forced to have sex with soldiers to get food for their families, reported The Guardian.

The report quoted women who escaped from the Sudanese city of Omdurman. The women alleged that having sex with soldiers was their only mean to access food and to raise money to feed their families.

One woman quoted by the Guardian said they were sexually exploited in factories across Omdurman where the food items are stocked. This woman was allegedly forced to have sex with soldiers at a meat-processing factory in May 2023.

This sexual exploitation of women by soldiers started after a civil war broke out in the country between the country’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

Reports of rape by armed men emerged within days of the conflict starting on 15 April last year.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in recent conflicts in Sudan. Dislacement of over 11 million has brought the country to the brink of famine.

Several women have come forward sharing harrowing tales of RSF fighters sexually abusing them in a systematic manner. The soldiers are said to be demanding sex in exchange for access to abandoned houses, the women told the Guardian.

Residents of the city claimed they see soldiers bringing women to abandoned houses where they were made to queue up as soldier picked the ones to have sex.

A woman told the Guardian that the soldiers burnt down her legs when she refused to have sex with them.