The Sudanese army has launched a major offensive in the capital, Khartoum, aiming to reclaim territory from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ( RSF ) amid the 17-month-long civil war. As the military targets RSF-held places, citizens endure hardships, with several women risking their lives to safe foods for their households.
Women from Dar es Salaam, a RSF-controlled region of Omdurman, revealed their struggles at a business where they had to walk for four hours to get cheaper foods after sharing their struggles with others. We go through this difficulty because we want to provide for our kids. We’re starving, we need meals”, one woman said. According to BBC, the people have become the main caregivers because husbands are frequently confined to their houses for fear of violence or violence.
When asked about their health, one person said,” Where is the world? Why do n’t you help us”?. ” There are so many women here who’ve been violated, but they do n’t talk about it. What difference would it make anyways”?, she added.
Another woman described her horrible ordeal at the business, where she now works as a tea stall owner. Early in the war, military people attempted to rape her sons, aged 10 and 17. She told the BBC,” I told the girls to be behind me and I told the RSF,” If you want to murder people, it has to be me,” and she continued,” I told them to stay behind me.”
Fatima, another lady at the marketplace, spoke of the continued violence, recalling a 15-year-old lady who became female after being raped by RSF men. ” During the conflict, since the RSF arrived, soon we started hearing of murders”, she said.
According to the UN, over 10.5 million persons have fled their homes due to escalating violence, with murder being used carefully. Volker Turk, the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, criticized the use of physical assault as” a weapon of war.”
