France, April 15 -- Twenty-year-old Sarah - not her real name - wears a pink floral headscarf. Her eyes fill with tears as she recounts how the war tore her family apart in her home town of Nyala in Darfur: bodies in the streets, harassment by soldiers from both sides, water and food running out within the first week.

In July 2023, her father left to look for food and never returned. Then the family home was hit by shelling.

"An artillery shell landed on our house. It killed my elder brother and our neighbour's son," she tells RFI from the Gorom camp in South Sudan, which hosts more than 20,000 Sudanese refugees. 

Left alone with her mother and her sisters, she says she was repeatedly harassed by the Rapid Support Forces...