Human Rights Watch has long denounced the contemporary form of slavery practiced in Sudan in the context of the fifteen-year civil war. This practice is conducted almost entirely by government ...

including in the context of sexual slavery. HRW’s Belkis Wille, returned recently from a research trip to Sudan’s South Kordofan state, where she documented these atrocities, alongside other ...

Drone strikes, severely hit infrastructure, widespread starvation, thousands dead and millions displaced - the toll of the ...

From traditional chattel slavery in Sudan to the contentious issue of trafficking in persons, international organizations such as Anti-Slavery International and Free the Slaves estimate that at least ...

Encouraging the Slave Trade HE per capita income in Sudan, according to Sudanese embassy estimates, is about $500 a year. In the war-torn south it is much less.

"We've made slavery more profitable than narcotics," Jacobson says. Recently I asked Manase Lomole Waya, who runs Humanitarian Assistance for South Sudan, a group based in Nairobi, what he thought ...

President Salva Kiir of South Sudan said what happened in Wad Madani was a heinous and "unacceptable" crime. He urged Sudan's ...

As a child, Mende Nazer was abducted from her home in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains in a slaving raid. She spent six years as a ...

January 31, 2025: The current Sudanese civil war, which began in 2023, is nearly two years old and the government forces are winning. For example the city of Wad Madani, 140 kilometers south of the ...

Many South Kordofan residents are members of Sudan's Christian minority ... crimes that also constitute sexual slavery," HRW said. At times, the captives were even chained together, it said.

degrading slave-like conditions.” The reports follow the escalation in fighting between the Government’s Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and RSF and heightened inter-communal tensions in the region.