It’s not knowing when they’re going to attack and, more importantly, just knowing that there is that threat of sexual violence, there is that threat of them losing their lives, losing their livelihood.”

Habab Mohd, 40, from Oxford, says she fears for the safety of her sister and six nieces and nephews living in Sudan, a country that has been ravaged by war for more than two years.

Her family live near the capital, Khartoum.

When fighting intensified there earlier this year, her brother-in-law was left badly beaten and the family considered fleeing the region.

“There are a lot of kidnappings,” Ms Mohd said. “Sexual violence is rough, they use it as a way to intimidate, to threaten and to scare the civilians