Today marks three years since the start of Sudan’s civil war. Thousands are believed to have died [NOTE: 20,000 up to 150,000 according to estimates] and millions have been forced to flee [14 million from UN estimates]. The United Nations has called the conflict “the world’s worst health and humanitarian crisis.” The aid group Doctors Without Borders warned last month that sexual violence has become not only a weapon of war, but an everyday occurrence. The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler learned more from the group’s project coordinator Stephanie Hoffman in Khartoum.
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