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.

A report issued by UNICEF investigators described horrific abuses, affecting children as young as 1 year old, in the civil war in Sudan.

UNICEF said 221 children, including boys, were raped by armed men, according to records compiled by gender-based violence service providers in the North African nation.

As conflict rages across Sudan, armed men are raping and sexually assaulting children, including some infants as young as one, according to the UN children’s agency (UNICEF).

Children as young as one being raped by armed men should shock anyone to their core and compel immediate action,' says UNICEF Executive Director Russell - Anadolu Ajansı

“Armed men are raping and sexually assaulting children, including infants as young as one, amid the nationwide conflict rippling across Sudan,” the UN agency for children, UNICEF, says today, in a new report documenting harrowing numbers of Sudanese children subjected to rape and sexual assault since the beginning of last year.

The United Nations children’s agency has revealed armed men are sexually assaulting and raping children as young as toddlers in Sudan's civil war.

The first detailed account of the impact of rape on children by the UN agency documented over 200 rape cases against children in 2024

Armed men are raping and sexually assaulting children as young as one during Sudan's civil war, says the UN children's agency, Unicef. Mass sexual violence has been widely documented as a weapon of war in the country's nearly two-year conflict.

The use of rape as a weapon of war has been flagged amidst a major conflict. Investigators for the UN’s children’s agency says that hundreds of little girls and little boys, some not even a year old,