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Darfur rape survivors gather together after ethnically targeted campaign

Darfur rape survivors gather together after ethnically targeted campaign

Group on outskirts of Geneina share stories from November when RSF and allied militias unleashed wave of sexual violence

Twice a week, a group of women gather together in a nondescript house in Ardamata, on the outskirts of Geneina in Sudan’s West Darfur state, to tell their stories to each other, cry, and drink coffee.

The women, who work or used to work in education, are all survivors of an ethnically targeted campaign of rape and sexual abuse carried out by fighters from Arab militias backed by the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group on 5 November, after the fall of the army garrison in Ardamata.

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