Sudanese rape victims speak from Chad’s refugee camps | Sudan war

Roua*, 18, misses her home in el-Geneina, where luscious mangoes grew in her small garden.

The RSF burned down her home in June 2023.

“They burned our whole village,” she says. Two of her brothers, an uncle and three neighbours were killed in the attack.

Roua tried to escape on foot, but she and eight of her school friends were kidnapped by RSF fighters. All of them were raped.

“They held us for two days. Two of them even died in that place from the rapes,” she says, her eyes…