Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Women fleeing El Fasher in western Sudan are subjected to rape, starvation and deadly bombing, the United Nations reported on Tuesday.
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces recently captured El Fasher after a 500-day siege and are using rape as a "weapon of war," according to the United Nations.
"Women speaking to us from El Fasher, the heart of Sudan's latest catastrophe, tell us that they've endured starvation, displacement, rape and bombardment," said Anna Mutavati, U.N. Women regional director for East and Southern Africa.
"Pregnant women have given birth in the streets as the last remaining maternity hospitals were looted and destroyed," she added.
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