Attackers raped, beat and robbed more than 100 women and girls in northern South Sudan over a 10-day period in November, aid agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said.
“Women and young girls have been coming to the MSF clinic in Bentiu en masse over the past week after surviving horrific episodes of sexual violence,” Ruth Okello, an MSF midwife in South Sudan, was quoted as saying in an MSF statement Friday.
“Some are girls under 10 years old and others are women older than 65. Even pregnant women have not been spared from these brutal attacks.”
The state minister for information in Northern Liech State, where the attacks were reported, told Reuters news agency that the accounts were not accurate.
“A rape of such a magnitude is not true,” Lam Tungwar told Reuters.
