{"id":229240,"date":"2026-04-01T14:25:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rebels-using-sexual-violence-in-darfur-as-war-weapon-says-msf\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:25:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:25:55","slug":"sudan-rebels-using-sexual-violence-in-darfur-as-war-weapon-says-msf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rebels-using-sexual-violence-in-darfur-as-war-weapon-says-msf\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan &#8211; Rebels Using Sexual Violence in Darfur As &#8216;War Weapon&#8217;, Says MSF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\"><em> Sudan&#8217;s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and allied militia groups are using sexual violence as a &#8216;weapon of war&#8217; in Darfur to control civilians, according to medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in a major report. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The report, titled <em>&#8220;There is something I want to tell you&#8230;&#8221;: Surviving the sexual violence crisis in Darfur<\/em>, provides the most comprehensive documented accounts of sexual violence in Sudan&#8217;s war, said M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSF<\/a>) &#8211; also known as Doctors Without&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604010418.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan&#8217;s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and allied militia groups are using sexual violence as a &#8216;weapon of war&#8217; in Darfur to control civilians, according to medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in a major report. The report, titled &#8220;There is something I want to tell you&#8230;&#8221;: Surviving the sexual violence crisis in Darfur, provides the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":229241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,2269,1951,257,2376,9796,254,4708,1613,2148,6618,13004],"class_list":["post-229240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-darfur","tag-msf","tag-news","tag-rebels","tag-sexual","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-violence","tag-war","tag-weapon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}