‘Horrific’ Spike in Mass Rape and Violence Against Women in South Sudan

‘Horrific’ Spike in Mass Rape and Violence Against Women in South Sudan
Women and girls speak to members of a UN peacekeeping patrol as they walk to get food in South Sudan, Dec. 7, 2018. Sam Mednick/AP
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NHIALDIU, South Sudan—Wrapping an arm around her stomach, the young woman hung her head and recounted the day in early November when she and a friend were bound, dragged into the bush and raped by four men with guns.

“My body hasn’t been the same since,” the 18-year-old said. The men attacked during an hours-long walk home to the South Sudan village of Nhialdiu. “I was crying and screaming but I was so far from the village that no one could hear me,” she told The Associated Press, which doesn’t identify survivors of sexual assault.