Thursday, December 19, 2024

248 women raped by soldiers in DR Congo in June

Some 248 women said they were raped by soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Sud-Kivu province last month, local medical reports showed Monday, in a region the UN has called the world’s “rape capital.” A hospital doctor in Nakiele told AFP that 121 local women reported being the victim of rape on the night of ... Read more