Sudanese Women forced to line up and have s3x with Soldiers in exchange for food – Report Says
Several women have reported that Sudanese soldiers have forced them to have sex in exchange for food for their families.
More than two dozen women who escaped from Omdurman, Sudan, said that having sex with soldiers was the only way they could get food or goods to sell and support their families, according to a new report by The Guardian.
One woman said the assaults happened in factories where food is stored. “Both of my parents are too old and sick, and I never let my daughter go out to look for food. I went to the soldiers, and that was the only way to get food—they were everywhere in the factories area,” she said, describing her experience at a meat-processing factory in May last year.
The assaults reportedly began after the civil war started in the country, with the army fighting against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
The report also claims that soldiers demanded sex in exchange for access to abandoned houses where women could take items to sell in local markets. One woman said she was allowed to take food, kitchen equipment, and perfumes from empty houses after having sex with soldiers.
“What I went through is indescribable, I would not wish it on an enemy … I only did it because I wanted to feed my children,” she said.
Residents said they saw soldiers bringing women to abandoned houses where they lined up, and soldiers picked the ones “they liked the look of.” “A lot of women come and queue outside our neighborhood. I sometimes hear screaming, but what can you do? Nothing,” one resident said.
Another woman said that when she refused to have sex with a soldier, they tortured her and burned her legs. The 21-year-old woman said she had previously had sex with soldiers in exchange for being allowed to loot houses for food and goods, but when she refused to do so again, the soldiers held her down and burned her legs.
A soldier, who denied assaulting any women himself, said he had seen his colleagues doing it. “It’s awful. The amount of sins in this city can never be forgiven,” he said.
Reports of rape by armed forces emerged just days after the conflict started on April 15, 2023.
The war in Sudan has killed tens of thousands of people, with some estimates placing the death count as high as 150,000. The war has created the world’s worst displacement crisis, with more than 11 million people displaced.
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