Groups call for end to sexual violence against Sudanese women

Women’s rights groups across Africa have called on Sudan’s military council to end violations against women.

The groups also urged the international community to ensure that those responsible for the sexual violence were held to account.

On Thursday, women’s rights activists said, Sudanese women were a driving force during months of protests that ousted veteran autocrat Omar Al-Bashir, but the sexual violence they endured risks being forgotten with the signing of a power-sharing deal.

They insisted that action must be taken to address scores of rapes committed during the crackdown by security forces.

The military council has previously denied that rape took place.