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Ten years after a celebrity summit promised to end rape as a weapon of war, is there any change for the women of South Sudan?
Guardian investigation reveals conflict-riven country received little funding or support and that high-profile perpetrators remain in public office
They were minding their own business, scanning the forest for fruit, when the troops approached. Six of them, all holding guns. Victoria Peter, 19, remembers glancing at her five sisters, thinking it might be OK.
It was shortly after 10am on 15 December 2015 – the second anniversary of a vicious civil war that had devastated South Sudan.
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