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‘Beating and rape for us, death for men’: MSF warns of widespread sexual violence in Darfur
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF/Doctors Without Borders) warned today that women and girls in Sudan's Darfur region face a near-constant risk...
‘Sudanese refugee girls raped in Chad’ as Darfur crisis deepens
Reports indicate that two young Sudanese girls were raped after leaving Kounongou refugee camp in eastern Chad, near the West...
Sudanese displacement to Egypt reshapes views on FGM
Dr Dima Dabbous, MENA Director at Equality Now, a global rights group focused on women and girls, discusses the findings...
‘The body as a battlefield’: Sexual violence in Sudan is a ‘deliberate genocidal tactic’
The systematic use of gender-based violence (GBV) against women in Sudan, particularly in Darfur, is not an unavoidable byproduct of...
ACJPS: Sudanese fleeing war ‘fall prey to human trafficking’
As millions of Sudanese flee the conflict that erupted in April 2023, some are escaping the immediate dangers of war...
North Darfur: New satellite images confirm mass displacement from Zamzam to Tawila and Dar As Salaam
As independent reports confirm that an estimated three million displaced civilians have fled westwards, following escalating ground offensive and shelling...
Sudan war: 3 million in mass exodus from North Darfur capital
The escalating ground offensive and shelling in battles between the (Sudanese Armed Forces) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)...
North Darfur: Half a million people flee ‘final catastrophe’ as Zamzam camp ‘obliterated’
Escalating hostilities and attacks in North Darfur over the past week have effectively obliterated Zamzam camp for internally displaced people,...
RSF sexual violence in Sudan amounts to war crimes, says Amnesty report
Amnesty International has accused Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of deliberately using sexual violence to humiliate and assert control over...
World Health Day 2025: Sudan’s mothers and babies face health catastrophe
On April 7, the world comes together to observe World Health Day, an annual initiative led by the UN World...
Sudanese refugees ‘sustained by the power of faith’ during Ramadan
Sudanese refugees in Chad and Egypt face the fast of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan under dire humanitarian conditions,...
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