'They took all the women here': Rape survivors recall horror of DR Congo jailbreak
He was the second man to rape her at Munzenze prison. The first attack was so violent that she passed out. Her attackers came ...
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Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...
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Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have entered east Congo’s second-largest city of Bukavu, residents and a community leader say
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have entered east Congo’s second-largest city of Bukavu, residents and a community leader say. This NATO ally will ‘buy, buy, buy’ more weapons ...
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Congo's Stylish Sapeur Movement Goes Beyond Fashion - 5 Deeper Insights [analysis]
In the two Congos, there's a cultural movement by the Society of Ambience-Makers and Elegant People (Sape), known as "sapeurs", who blend fashion, culture and social resistance. Though it was rooted ...
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Rwanda-backed rebels flout ceasefire by rampaging through Congo as death toll nears 3,000 including scores of female prisoners who were raped and burned alive with their ...
Rwandan-backed rebels appeared to violate a unilateral ceasefire they declared this week by rampaging through new parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo overnight. The M23 rebels launched a ...
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M23 rebels in Congo using advanced arms similar to Israeli military: South African former general
Some Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) army forces, who fled the region due to the clashes crossed into Rwanda through the Corniche border crossing between the DRC and Rwanda, surrender to ...
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Hundreds of women raped, burnt alive in Congo jailbreak amid rebel conflict
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels last week captured regional capital Goma in an anarchic and mineral-rich part of Democratic Republic of Congo. Hundreds of women inmates in Munzenze prison of Congo's Goma ...
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DR Congo jailbreak horror as all female prisoners raped and burned alive after male inmates escape
The M23 were reported to be gaining ground in other areas of eastern Congo and advancing on another provincial capital, Bukavu. But they revealed on Monday they had no plans to seize Bukavu.
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Congo ceasefire appears to crumble as rebels reportedly capture another eastern town
WARNING: This story contains an image that may be disturbing to some readers. Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of a mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu ...
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Hundreds of women raped & burned alive after rebel army storms female prison & sets facility on fire in Congo uprising
HUNDREDS of women were raped and then burnt alive after Rwandan-backed rebels stormed a female prison in Congo. The atrocity happened in the city of Goma when freed male prisoners turned on the ...
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Hundreds of Women Raped, Burned to Death After Prison in Congo Set on Fire: UN Official
AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa Hundreds of women were raped and burned to death after a mass jailbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, following the seizure of a major city by militants.