Africa: UN report on sexual violence names worst offenders

The annual UN report documenting conflict-related sexual violence around the world for the first time on Thursday named some of the military forces, militia and other armed groups that are suspected of being among the worst offenders. It stated that the report provided examples of how sexual violence had threatened security and impeded peacebuilding in post-conflict situations, such as in Chad, CAR, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Bosnia and Herzegovina. It also revealed how it has been used in the context of elections, political strife and civil unrest in Egypt, Guinea, Kenya and Syria, among others.