Sudan Women

In war-torn Sudan, women are being forced to have sex with soldiers to get food to feed their families, a report by The Guardian said.

Trapped in a Catholic mission sheltering dozens of women and children from the war raging on the streets of Khartoum, Father Jacob Thelekkadan punched new holes in his belt as the supplies of food dwindled and he grew thinner.

India is set to deploy a platoon of Women Peacekeepers in Sudan's Abyei region today as part of the Indian Battalion in the United Nations Interim Security Force (UNISFA).

Sudan will permit non-Muslims to consume alcohol and strengthen women's rights, including banning female genital mutilation (FGM), its justice minister said late on Saturday, in a reversal of almost four decades of hardline Islamist policies.

South Sudan lets fighters rape women as payment, the UN rights office said today, describing the country as "one of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world."

A group of South Sudanese women peace activists has suggested that men in the civil war-torn country be denied sex until they stop fighting.

A 23-year-old Sudanese woman, mother to a six-month-old baby, has been convicted of adultery and will be stoned to death, Sky News reported. Laila Ibrahim Issa Jamool is being kept shackled to her baby in Omdurman women's prison after she was convicted by a court in the capital Khartoum July 10.

In war-torn Sudan, women are being forced to have sex with soldiers to get food to feed their families, a report by The Guardian said.

Trapped in a Catholic mission sheltering dozens of women and children from the war raging on the streets of Khartoum, Father Jacob Thelekkadan punched new holes in his belt as the supplies of food dwindled and he grew thinner.

India is set to deploy a platoon of Women Peacekeepers in Sudan's Abyei region today as part of the Indian Battalion in the United Nations Interim Security Force (UNISFA).

Sudan will permit non-Muslims to consume alcohol and strengthen women's rights, including banning female genital mutilation (FGM), its justice minister said late on Saturday, in a reversal of almost four decades of hardline Islamist policies.

South Sudan lets fighters rape women as payment, the UN rights office said today, describing the country as "one of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world."

A group of South Sudanese women peace activists has suggested that men in the civil war-torn country be denied sex until they stop fighting.

A 23-year-old Sudanese woman, mother to a six-month-old baby, has been convicted of adultery and will be stoned to death, Sky News reported. Laila Ibrahim Issa Jamool is being kept shackled to her baby in Omdurman women's prison after she was convicted by a court in the capital Khartoum July 10.