Women and girls ‘not safe anywhere’ as Darfur suffers surge in sexual violence

People who fled the Zamzam displacement camp after it fell under RSF control rest in a makeshift encampment near the town of Tawila, western Darfur. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

As Sudan’s Darfur region has been overrun by militias, women are facing the constant threat of sexual violence, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has reported.

The medical charity said in the South Darfur region alone its workers treated 659 sexual violence survivors between January and March this year, more than two-thirds of whom had been raped.