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No Safe Place for Women in Sudan's Darfur Region, MSF Says

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has released a harrowing new report highlighting the increasing use of sexual violence as a weapon of war in Darfur, happening both within active conflict zones and beyond Sudan's frontlines. In this interview with AllAfrica's Boakai Fofana, Myriam Laroussi - MSF's Emergency Coordinator in Darfur - discusses her team's experience supporting survivors and the deteriorating humanitarian situation across the region.

Sudan: There is No Safe Place for Women in Darfur - MSF

allAfrica, 1 April 2026

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has released a harrowing new report highlighting the increasing use of sexual violence as a weapon of war in Darfur, happening both… Read more »
Sudan: Sudan - Rebels Using Sexual Violence in Darfur As 'War Weapon', Says MSF

RFI, 1 April 2026

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and allied militia groups are using sexual violence as a 'weapon of war' in Darfur to control civilians, according to medical charity… Read more »
Sudan: 'No Safe Place for Women and Girls in Darfur' - Doctors Without Borders

Dabanga, 31 March 2026

Women in Darfur, Sudan, are demanding protection, care and justice as sexual violence continues across the region, both in active conflict areas and far beyond frontlines,… Read more »
Sudan: MSF Report Reveals 3,396 Cases of Sexual Violence Documented in Darfur

MSF, 31 March 2026

Report documents widespread and systematic sexual violence across roads, fields and displacement camps both in acute conflict zones and far from front lines Read more »
Sudan: Surviving the Sexual Violence Crisis in Darfur - Report

MSF, 31 March 2026

Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF's) latest report, "There is something I want to tell you...": Surviving the sexual violence crisis in Darfur, provides the most… Read more »

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A woman who fled El Fasher to Tawila in North Darfur

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Attacks Against Sudan's Women During War a 'Genocidal Tactic'

As continuing attacks are reported from Khartoum, sexual violence is now a systematic and deliberate tool of war, with atrocities targeting women and children as part of a broader genocidal strategy. Over 22 years of impunity, international silence, and the withdrawal of peacekeeping efforts have enabled armed groups-- particularly the Rapid
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Shelling, Hunger, and Persecution Trap Sudanese in El-Fasher

Vast numbers of civilians in El-Fasher in Sudan's vast western region of Darfur are trapped under siege, suffering violence, hunger, and relentless bombardment. Among them, according to the Commitee to Protect Journalists, are reporters, alongside the people they are covering. Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group
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'No One is Safe' - Midwife Tells of Sexual Violence in Sudan

"Sexual violence has become as widespread [a weapon] as guns and bullets. Women arrive at our facilities exhausted, traumatized, often after months of displacement," a midwife at a maternity clinic in Sudan's eastern Gedaref State has said.

"They are carrying physical and emotional wounds that are difficult to comprehend."

Meanwhile, a UN fact-finding mission in the country
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No Safe Place for Women in Sudan's Darfur Region, MSF Says

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Attacks Against Sudan's Women During War a 'Genocidal Tactic'

Shelling, Hunger, and Persecution Trap Sudanese in El-Fasher

'No One is Safe' - Midwife Tells of Sexual Violence in Sudan

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