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Sudan’s Ongoing Conflict: Women and Girls Face Widespread Sexual Violence as Rape Becomes a Tool of War
2Apr By News SANo Comments
International

Sudan’s Ongoing Conflict: Women and Girls Face Widespread Sexual Violence as Rape Becomes a Tool of War

By News SA Correspondent:   A woman walks through Daba Naira camp for internally displaced people in Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan. Photographer: Cindy Gonzalez| on 14/02/2026 “They took us to an open area. […] The first man raped me twice, the second once, the third four times, and the fourth once. Apart from the rapes, they beat us with sticks and pointed guns at my head. Another girl who was 15…was raped by three men. We were raped throughout the night.”  - Woman, unknown age, October 2025, Tawila. This is one of the tales of harrowing sexual violence experienced by women and young girls in the war-torn country contained in a new report released this week by Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The report, released during a media conference held in Nairobi, Kenya, exposes the rampant...
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Nigeria: MSF hands over Cross River project after three years of lifesaving care in Nigeria
10Mar By News SANo Comments
International

Nigeria: MSF hands over Cross River project after three years of lifesaving care in Nigeria

By News SA Correspondent: An MSF signpost pointing towards the primary healthcare facility MSF supports in the Old Ndebeji community in Akamkpa. (Image: Abba Adamu Musa/MSF, 2024 ) In September 2025, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) concluded its Cross River project after three years of collaboration with the state ministry of health, providing free, comprehensive health care to thousands of people living in Akor and Old Ndibeji, located in the Akampa Local Government Area near the Nigerian-Cameroonian border. Launched in May 2022, the project supported two primary health care centres in communities whose access to medical services had been extremely limited. After donating medical supplies, MSF handed over operations to the Ministry of Health. For many community members ...
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Civil Society Rallies Against Injustice: From Bombed Hospitals to Stoning Sentences Double Shock
23Feb By News SANo Comments
News

Civil Society Rallies Against Injustice: From Bombed Hospitals to Stoning Sentences Double Shock

By Thobile Jiwulane: Women suffer in Sudan due to the ongoing war. Gender-based violence and claims of adultery (Image: Avaaz website ) International civil society groups are grappling with twin emergencies in East Africa: the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in South Sudan and the looming execution by stoning of two Sudanese mothers convicted of adultery. The juxtaposition underscores the precarious state of humanitarian and human rights protections across the region. On 3 February, an airstrike destroyed MSF’s hospital warehouse in Lankien, Jonglei State, South Sudan, injuring one staff member and wiping out critical medical supplies. Hours later, armed assailants looted another MSF facility in Pieri. “Our colleagues from Lankien and Pieri had to f...
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