In a shocking report, the UN children's agency has revealed that children as young as one year old have been victims of rape across nine states in Sudan.

Armed forces in Sudan’s civil war are perpetrating systematic sexual violence against young children, with one-year-olds the youngest survivors of rape, according to a new report from UNICEF, the United Nations’ (UN) children’s agency.

The security condition in Sudan has deteriorated after the war between the military and its rival paramilitary, Rapid Support Forces, broke out in 2021.

Some of the survivors cited by UNICEF say they fell pregnant as a result of the assaults, resulting in rejection by relatives and additional hardships. One woman who was held in captivity with other women and girls was quoted saying,