This week, the head of the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, told global leaders,

Sudan's humanitarian crisis is the world's biggest and most devastating. A new UNICEF report

says 30 million people are in need of humanitarian aid, more than half of them, children. Many of them

face threats of violence and sexual assault on a daily basis.

The report also says that in fewer than two years of conflict, the number of people at

risk of gender-based violence has more than tripled to more than 12 million people or 25%

of the population. Ali Rogan spoke with UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram, who recently traveled to Sudan.

Thank you so much for joining us, Tess. What are the major findings from this report?

This report tells us that we're facing a very serious situation in Sudan with sexual violence.

It is being used as a weapon of war to instill

fear in communities. The data that we got from service providers in Sudan shows that there

have been 221 cases of rape perpetrated against children since the beginning of 2024.

And if that alone isn't shocking, it tells us that there are really young

children in that cohort, as young as one year old, and the cases of rape are being perpetrated

right across the country. This is not an isolated incident. It is widespread terror being waged

across Sudan. To what extent is the Civil War fueling this sexual violence?

We know that sexual violence existed, including being perpetrated against children in Sudan

before this conflict. But we've seen it resurge again, and we've seen it happen in a number

of different scenarios of armed men as they come into a city

taking young girls from their families and holding them against their will.

We've seen families fleeing that fear of that violence and death only to find themselves

apprehended or put in harm's way.

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