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Mass rape in eastern Congo keeps happening

By Maya | Published: January 10, 2011

TweetAs Courtney mentioned in the What We Missed last week, dozens women were raped in a coordinated attack in Fizi, South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo on New Year’s Day. The war in Congo, which has stretched on more than a dozen years now, has killed more people than the Holocaust and earned [...]

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Thousands of DR Congo women march against sexual violence

By Vanessa | Published: October 18, 2010

Tweet Pic via BBC. Yesterday, thousands of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo marched through the town of Bukavu with signs and slogans saying, “No to sexual terrorism.” The first lady led the rally in a statement to fight the continuing thousands of rapes occurring across the war-torn nation. This comes a month after [...]