Overview

• MSF treated 659 survivors of sexual violence in South Darfur from January 2024 to March 2025, with 94 percent women and girls and 31 percent under 18.
• Armed actors perpetrated 56 percent of the assaults, 86 percent of survivors reported rape and 55 percent suffered additional physical violence.
• Attacks took place in homes, while fleeing violence, during food and firewood collection and in agricultural fields, revealing no safe space for women and girls.
• In eastern Chad, MSF treated nearly 140 survivors across refugee sites since January, with almost half of them children under 18.
• MSF calls for an immediate end to sexual violence, accountability from combatants, respect for humanitarian law and rapid expansion of survivor services.