Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF says its teams gave emergency medical and psychosocial help to 125 women and girls who were raped and beaten in Rubkona County between November 19 and 29.
Ruth Okello, MSF Midwife, says MSF treated 104 sexual and gender-based violence survivors in the first ten months of this year and have assisted 125 survivors in the past week alone.
She says some girls who came to their clinic are under ten years, others are women older than 65 and pregnant women.
The midwife reported that women say they are walking in larger groups for safety but, in turn, they are being confronted by increasingly larger groups of aggressive assailants.
The agency says the incidences of sexual and gender-based violence coincide with an increase of population movements as people try to reach food distributions in the area.
‘Children, women and men of Rubkona urgently need safety and protection to be able to reach humanitarian aid such as food distributions, said Akke Boere, MSF’s operational manager for South Sudan.
‘These horrifying attacks show that they continue to live in an extremely violent and insecure environment’, the official adds.