After almost three years of civil war, Sudan is facing what the UN has described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis
Tens of thousands of people have been killed and millions displaced, as the Sudanese armed forces and paramilitary RSF vie for control of the country
But women are the main victims of the war, says Suleyma Ishaq al-Khalifa, Sudan's Minister of Social Affairs
The next thing which is more profound is the sexual violence using as a weapon of court
It was systematic with the same scenario and different scenarios according to the places
like the same scenario in Jazeera and Khartoum, the same scenario and different scenario in Darfur and old Darfur
Because in Darfur it's actually accompanying the ethnical cleansing. Khalifa says rapes routinely accompany looting and attacks
and that fighters celebrate assaults, seeing them as acts of domination. Because they said to women, and this has been the statement taken from a lot of survivors there
they have been accusing them of being less people, like calling them slaves
and saying that when I'm attacking you, assaulting you sexually, I'm actually honoring you
Authorities have documented more than 1,800 cases of rape. Many women and girls
are abducted, trafficked or forced into marriage, something Khalifa describes as a torture operation