A recent feature by The New Humanitarian documents alarming accounts of sexual and gender-based violence experienced by women and girls fleeing El Fasher in the western Darfur region of Sudan. Survivors describe systematic gang-rapes, abductions, and looting perpetrated by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during and after the city’s capture. The article highlights that support services—medical, psychological, legal—are woefully insufficient, while the violence fits a pattern of use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
Compiled From: Ahmed Gouja, “Women and girls fleeing El Fasher describe widespread RSF sexual violence,” The New Humanitarian, Nov. 21, 2025.