Scale of South Sudan sexual violence is unprecedented - Red Cross

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women in South Sudan have suffered unprecedented levels of sexual violence in the last two years, including abduction, rape, forced marriage and murder as civilians became targets of merciless ethnic warfare, the head of the Red Cross mission there has said.

"We went to one village to distribute aid and (our teams) were told they had been attacked some days earlier and 90 women had been abducted. After several days only about 60 of them came back," said Franz Rauchenstein, the outgoing head of the International Committee of the Red Cross delegation.