NAIROBI, April 7 (Xinhua) -- Sudan has expressed willingness to probe allegations on widespread sexual violence during attacks by Sudanese government forces and allied militia in Darfur as well as the disappearance of over a dozen men allegedly at the hands of rebels in the strife-torn region.

    Addressing a news conference in Nairobi on Saturday, Sudan's Justice Minister Ali al-Mardhi said his country has set up a committee fully staffed with prosecutors and policewomen to combat sexual violence in the western region of Darfur.

    Al-Mardhi, who arrived in Nairobi from South Africa, termed the charges leveled on Khartoum by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, as presumptions.

    "We have initiated administrative (measures) to combat violence against women and this is supplied with adequate prosecutors, sufficient policewomen and is provided with staff," he told a news conference in Nairobi Saturday.

    "This is a presumption. Even with regard to this presumption we are ready to investigate whatever complaints are made in this regard," said al-Mardhi.

    The justice minister said most of the allegations of rape occurring in Darfur are not based on factual information and is propagated by relief agencies, which often fail to present the actual facts on the ground.

    The UN is demanding for independent probe into rape allegations in Darfur, where reports say some 15 women, including a 13-yearold girl and two pregnant women were recently raped.

    The UN rights chief Arbour says those responsible for the attacks should be put on trial and the victims compensated.

    A separate report raises concerns about the enforced disappearance of at least 19 Massalit men arrested in South Sudan in September. Arbour is demanding that former rebel leader MinniArkoy Minnawi disclose their whereabouts.

    But the Sudanese authorities say the rape allegations are not backed by fact and that the international community has presumed Sudanese authorities as accomplices.

    "You (the press) always attempt to make generalizations without any attempt to name the victims, name the offenders and without naming the place or village. It is just generalized talk," al-Mardhi told journalists.

    Experts estimate that around 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million have fled their homes since the conflict flared in2003, when rebels took up arms against Khartoum, charging it with neglect. The government says only 9,000 people have died.