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The ongoing cycle of violence in Congo killed more people than any other conflict since World War II and caused many to flee their homes and reside in displacement camps. Some women activists who are also affected by the war in the country stepped into a high-risk role of appealing to a group of military men in an army post.
The attackers allegedly went on an "indiscriminate killing spree", [1] killing at least 200 civilians, imprisoning survivors in a room filled with corpses, and sexually enslaving women and girls. [2] Two rebel leaders, Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui , have been charged by the International Criminal Court with war crimes and crimes ...
The Western DR Congo clashes are a series of attacks by Mobondo militia on armed forces and Teke civilians which started in June 2022. The conflict has an ethnic component, as the Mobondo is mainly recruited from Yaka and other ethnic groups that are migrating into territories traditionally inhabited by Teke.
The Congo Crisis (French: Crise congolaise) was a period of political upheaval and conflict between 1960 and 1965 in the Republic of the Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo). [ c ] The crisis began almost immediately after the Congo became independent from Belgium and ended, unofficially, with the entire country under the rule of ...
Hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been displaced over the past year in eastern Congo amid fighting by […] The post ‘I wanted to scream’: Growing conflict in Congo drives sexual ...
Second Congo War (1998–2003), involved nine nations and led to ongoing low-level warfare, despite an official peace treaty and the first democratic elections in 2006; Ituri conflict (1999–present) and Kivu conflict (2004–present), sub-conflicts of the Second Congo War that continued as ongoing insurgencies M23 rebellion (2012–2013)
The trend underscores the disproportionate consequences for women and girls in the region's perpetual state of war. 'I wanted to scream': Growing conflict in Congo drives sexual assault against ...
The decades-old conflict in Congo’s mineral-rich east has “drastically deteriorated” since early 2022, and gotten even worse since last October, with sharp increases in sexual violence, the ...