Congo Rape

Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) treated more than 670 women - or nearly 50 per day - at three sites between April 17 and 30 who had been subjected to sexual violence.

A Congolese woman was kidnapped twice by militants in the Democratic Republic of Congo, repeatedly raped and forced to cook and eat human flesh, a Congolese rights group told the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday.

Extremist groups like Islamic State and Boko Haram are increasingly resorting to rape and sexual violence as a tactic of war, according to an annual UN report released Monday.

The chanting begins quietly but quickly swells, the sound echoing depths of suffering that the music might heal. "Help me, each day is difficult, help me overcome this suffering."

A 20-year-old Congolese national was allegedly raped in Delhi by two cloth merchants inside her house on Friday afternoon, police said.

Democratic Republic of Congo troops raped at least 97 women and 33 girls, some as young as 6, in the country's volatile east after they fled from advancing M23 rebels in late November, according to a UN report released on Wednesday.

A new study released on Wednesday shows that 1,152 women are raped every day in the African nation of Congo, a rate equal to 48 per hour.That rate is 26 times more than the previous estimate of 16,000 rapes reported in one year by the United Nations.Michelle Hindin, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health who spec...

Approximately 500 women were raped in eastern Congo in July and August, demonstrating that both rebel militias and government troops used sexual violence as a weapon, two senior United Nations officials said Tuesday.Since United Nations officials first disclosed late last month that large numbers of women had been gang-raped, the number reported ha...

Rwandan and Congolese rebels gang-raped nearly 200 women and some baby boys over four days within miles of a UN peacekeepers' base in an eastern Congo mining district, an American aid worker and a Congolese doctor said.Will F Cragin of the International Medical Corps said on Monday that aid and UN workers knew rebels had occupied Luvungi town and s...

Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) treated more than 670 women - or nearly 50 per day - at three sites between April 17 and 30 who had been subjected to sexual violence.

A Congolese woman was kidnapped twice by militants in the Democratic Republic of Congo, repeatedly raped and forced to cook and eat human flesh, a Congolese rights group told the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday.

Extremist groups like Islamic State and Boko Haram are increasingly resorting to rape and sexual violence as a tactic of war, according to an annual UN report released Monday.

The chanting begins quietly but quickly swells, the sound echoing depths of suffering that the music might heal. "Help me, each day is difficult, help me overcome this suffering."

A 20-year-old Congolese national was allegedly raped in Delhi by two cloth merchants inside her house on Friday afternoon, police said.

Democratic Republic of Congo troops raped at least 97 women and 33 girls, some as young as 6, in the country's volatile east after they fled from advancing M23 rebels in late November, according to a UN report released on Wednesday.

A new study released on Wednesday shows that 1,152 women are raped every day in the African nation of Congo, a rate equal to 48 per hour.That rate is 26 times more than the previous estimate of 16,000 rapes reported in one year by the United Nations.Michelle Hindin, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health who spec...

Approximately 500 women were raped in eastern Congo in July and August, demonstrating that both rebel militias and government troops used sexual violence as a weapon, two senior United Nations officials said Tuesday.Since United Nations officials first disclosed late last month that large numbers of women had been gang-raped, the number reported ha...

Rwandan and Congolese rebels gang-raped nearly 200 women and some baby boys over four days within miles of a UN peacekeepers' base in an eastern Congo mining district, an American aid worker and a Congolese doctor said.Will F Cragin of the International Medical Corps said on Monday that aid and UN workers knew rebels had occupied Luvungi town and s...