A outstanding Sudanese physician’s group has accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of raping no less than 19 girls as they fled town of el-Fasher in Darfur.
The Sudan Doctors Network stated in an announcement on Sunday that it documented the rapes amongst girls who had fled to the city of al-Dabba within the neighbouring Northern State.
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Two of the ladies had been pregnant, the group stated.
“The Sudan Doctors Network strongly condemns the gang rape being perpetrated by the RSF in opposition to girls escaping the horrors of El-Fasher, affirming that it constitutes a direct concentrating on of ladies in a blatant violation of all worldwide legal guidelines that criminalise using girls’s our bodies as a weapon of oppression,” the group wrote on X.
Sudan Doctors Network: We have documented 19 circumstances of rape dedicated by the Rapid Support Forces, together with two pregnant girls, at Al-Afad Camp in Al-Dabba
The Sudan Doctors Network group at Al-Afad Camp in Al-Dabba has documented the rape of 19 girls whereas they had been fleeing from… pic.twitter.com/u5qWp4bdSD
— Sudan Doctors Network – شبكة أطباء السودان (@SDN154) December 7, 2025
Sudan has been engulfed in civil warfare since April 2023, when preventing erupted between the Sudanese military and the paramilitary RSF. The battle has killed tens of 1000’s of individuals and displaced greater than 12 million, in accordance with the United Nations. It has additionally left some 30 million in want of humanitarian help.
The RSF took town of el-Fasher, the capital of the state of North Darfur, in October after an 18-month marketing campaign of siege and hunger. The metropolis was the Sudanese military’s final stronghold within the area.
Survivors who fled town within the subsequent days recounted mass killings, rape, pillaging and different atrocities, prompting a global outcry.
Amnesty International has accused the RSF of “warfare crimes”, whereas the UN Human Rights Council has ordered an investigation into the abuses in el-Fasher. Officials who visited Darfur and spoke to survivors described the area as an “absolute horror present” and a “crime scene”.
Widespread sexual assault
Mohammed Elsheikh, a spokesperson for the Sudan Doctors Network, instructed Al Jazeera on Sunday that he was “one hundred pc certain” that sexual violence dedicated by RSF fighters is way extra widespread than reported.
“Because many of the communities have a look at it as a stigma, many of the raped girls have a tendency to not disclose this info,” he stated.
Elsheikh stated the community had additionally documented 23 circumstances of rape amongst girls who fled el-Fasher for the close by city of Tawila.
“Unfortunately, the age of those raped victims varies from 15 years to 23 years previous,” he stated.
In its assertion, the Sudan Doctors Network urged the worldwide group to take pressing motion to guard Sudanese girls and women.
It additionally referred to as for “critical strain on RSF leaders to right away cease these assaults, respect worldwide humanitarian regulation, and safe secure corridors for girls and youngsters”.
The newest accusations got here amid a rising outcry over one other RSF assault on a pre-school within the state of South Kordofan that native officers stated killed no less than 116 individuals. Some 46 of the victims had been kids, in accordance with the officers.
On Sunday, Justice Minister Abdullah Dirife stated Khartoum was keen to pursue political talks geared toward ending the battle, however insisted that any settlement should “guarantee there isn’t any presence for ‘terrorist’ militias in each the political and army arenas”.
Speaking to Al Jazeera on the sidelines of the Doha Forum, he stated the rebels “have to agree to offer their weapons in particular areas and go away all these cities, and the police ought to take over”.
Dirife additionally referred to as for placing a cease to the “switch of weapons and the infiltration of mercenaries into Sudan” and claimed that fighters and arms had been getting into from areas together with South America, Chad and the UAE.
The RSF presently holds all 5 states of Darfur, whereas the Sudanese military retains management of many of the remaining 13 states, together with Khartoum.
Dirife additionally accused the RSF of repeatedly breaking previous commitments to stick to regional and international mediation initiatives.
“The final initiative we signed was the Jeddah Declaration. However, this militia didn’t decide to what we agreed on,” he stated in Doha.
The Jeddah Declaration – brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia in May 2023 – was meant to guard civilians and lay the groundwork for humanitarian entry. Several ceasefires adopted, however either side had been accused of violating them, prompting the mediators to droop talks.
The UN has in the meantime formally declared famine in el-Fasher and Kaduguli in South Kordofan and warned of the chance of a starvation disaster in 20 further areas throughout the Greater Darfur and Greater Kordofan areas.
The World Food Programme’s Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau instructed Al Jazeera on Sunday that the company was offering help to 5 million individuals, together with two million in areas which are tough to succeed in, however warned that help has fallen far in need of wants.
“World consideration must be on Sudan now, and diplomatic efforts must be stepped up with the intention to stop the identical catastrophe we noticed in el-Fasher,” he stated.
