Content_paragraphs:  MINUSMA documented eight cases of sexual violence perpetrated by terrorist 
  
  groups, signatory armed groups and the national armed forces. The cases included the 
  
  forced marriage of four girls by alleged extremist elements in Timbuktu Region; the 
  
  rape of two women, reportedly by Mouvement pour le salut de l’Azawad members in 
  
  Ménaka; the gang rape of a girl, imputed to elements of the Coordination des 
  
  mouvements de l’Azawad et Front patriotique de résistance in Gao; and the sexual 
  
  assault of a 5-year-old girl, perpetrated by a member of the national armed forces in 
  
  Gao.