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Sudan: rebels using sexual violence in Darfur as 'war weapon', says MSF

Sudanese women, who fled the conflict in Murnei in Sudan's Darfur region, wait to be registered by UNHCR upon crossing the border between Sudan and Chad, in Adre, Chad, on 26 July, 2023. © Zohra Bensembra / Reuters

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 Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in a major report.

The report, titled “There is something I want to tell you…”: Surviving the sexual violence crisis in Darfur, provides the most comprehensive documented accounts of sexual violence in Sudan’s war, said Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) – also known as Doctors Without Borders.

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