Documented incidents
DAR Talks does not run the incident database. Incident-level documentation of the Sudan war is maintained, in collaboration with us, by The Sudan Record — a geospatial OSINT platform with confidence-scored entries, an interactive map, and per-incident records that can be cited individually.
DAR Talks does not align with either armed party. Both the SAF and the RSF have been credibly accused of war crimes against Sudanese women. The position is anti-violence-against-women and pro-accountability — applied without favour. The Sudan Record's catalogue applies the same standard: SAF and RSF attribution are documented symmetrically, with primary sources for each.
A few incidents we cite often
The entries below are illustrative of the converging documentary record. Each cites a primary source; for the full sourced log, follow the link above.
El Geneina, West Darfur — June 2023
Human Rights Watch documented an organised campaign by the Rapid Support Forces and allied Arab militias against the Masalit community in and around El Geneina between April and November 2023. The report attributes ethnically-targeted killings, sexual violence against Masalit women, and the destruction of Masalit neighbourhoods to RSF commanders and allied fighters, and concludes the conduct amounts to crimes against humanity. Source: Human Rights Watch, The Massalit Will Not Come Home, May 2024.
Khartoum and Omdurman — through 2024
Human Rights Watch documented widespread sexual violence in Khartoum from April 2023 onwards, with the majority of cases attributed to the RSF and SAF-aligned forces also implicated in rape and crimes against humanity; the report records an uptick in cases attributed to the SAF after it took control of Omdurman in early 2024. Source: Human Rights Watch, "Khartoum is not Safe for Women!", July 2024.
Four states of Sudan — April 2023 to October 2024
Amnesty International documented 36 cases of women and girls — some as young as 15 — raped, gang-raped, or held in conditions of sexual slavery by Rapid Support Forces and allied militias across four Sudanese states. Source: Amnesty International, "They raped all of us", April 2025.
North and South Darfur — January 2024 to November 2025
Médecins Sans Frontières recorded at least 3,396 survivors of sexual violence treated in MSF-supported facilities in North and South Darfur during the period, with attacks attributed primarily to the RSF and allied militias. Source: Médecins Sans Frontières, "There is something I want to tell you", March 2026.
Nationwide — September 2025
The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan found that both the SAF and the RSF have committed direct, large-scale attacks against civilians and acts amounting to war crimes — including documented sexual and gender-based violence and a pattern of detention abuses attributed to both parties. Source: OHCHR / UN Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan, A/HRC/60/22, September 2025.
Two methodologies, two purposes
The Sudan Record verifies incidents: who was attacked, where, when, by whom, sourced from open and corroborating evidence, and confidence-scored. DAR Talks verifies testimony: first-person accounts from survivors, held to a consent-first standard for use by lawyers and tribunals. The two methodologies serve different evidentiary purposes and are complementary. The DAR Talks process is published in full at How we document.
Submitting a documented incident
DAR Talks is not the intake channel for incident reports. Send incident-level documentation to The Sudan Record's team via their site. If you are a survivor or a person close to one, the DAR Talks survivor channel is the right place — it is operated by trained intake workers and is not a public form.
Updated 17 May 2026. Last source review 17 May 2026.