Women raped in war-hit Sudan die by suicide, activists sayBut the RSF has dismissed a recent UN report blaming a rise in sexual violence on its combatants, telling the BBC the accusations "were not based on evidence".
Several women have taken their lives in Sudan's central Gezira state after being raped by paramilitary fighters in the brutal civil war raging in the country, rights groups and activists have said.
They looted, killed civilians who were resisting and raped women and little girls," Hala al-Karib, head of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (Siha), told the BBC.
Siha, which has been documenting gender-based violence in Sudan during the war, had confirmed three cases of suicide by women over the last week in Gezira state, she said.
RSF spokesperson Nizar Sayed Ahmed told the BBC: “These accusations are false and not based on evidence.

Sudan civil war: Women raped by RSF fighters in Gezira state die by suicide, activists say