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In Sudan, the civil war between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces has been raging since April leaving nearly six million people displaced.

The war has been characterised by a wide range of human rights abuses.

The UN estimates that 25 million people are in need of help and a conference in Nairobi is aiming to highlight the impact of this war on women, and look at ways they can be supported.

It's organised by the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa, or SIHA. Hala al Karib runs the organisation and told Newsday sexual violence against women was now a deliberate "war tactic" by both sides in the conflict, but paramilitary forces appeared to be using it to intimidate people.

"Seventy per cent of documented cases of sexual violence are gang rape cases... The targeting of women and girls has become an everyday reality."

(Pic: Sudanese refugees gather as Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams assist the war wounded from West Darfur, Sudan, in neighbouring Chad; Credit: Reuters)

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