European Security — 2026-03-31
MSF Report Documents RSF Using Sexual Violence as Weapon of War in Darfur
Doctors Without Borders released a report documenting the Rapid Support Forces and
Analysis
MSF's data comes from only two of Sudan's 18 states, making the 3,396-survivor figure a floor, not a ceiling. Access constraints mean the true scale is likely orders of magnitude larger. The report's release is strategically timed: the Iran war andHormuz crisis have consumed international bandwidth, pushing Sudan's civil war further from the news cycle. The same dynamic benefits Russia in Ukraine, as Zelenskyy explicitly warned in his ceasefire remarks elsewhere in this digest.
MSF's data comes from only two of Sudan's 18 states, making the 3,396-survivor figure a floor, not a ceiling. Access constraints mean the true scale is likely orders of magnitude larger. The report's release is strategically timed: the Iran war and