THE United Nations human rights office said in a new report released today that scores of people, including children, have been subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence during the fighting in Sudan.

The UN body said the assaults may amount to war crimes.

Sudan was plunged into chaos in mid-April when clashes erupted in the capital, Khartoum, between the country’s military, led by General Abdel Fattah Burhan, and a paramilitary faction known as the Rapid Support Forces, under the command of General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo.