Congo Women Still Victims of Attack Despite Peace Deal, says Humanitarian

Raymond Thibodeaux
Nairobi
01 Apr 2004, 15:01 UTC



A leading humanitarian organization says Congolese soldiers and former rebel forces continue to attack women in many parts of the country, where order has not been restored. The group, Doctors Without Borders, says in a report issued in Nairobi the attacks continue in spite of a peace deal signed last year between the Kinshasa government and several rebel groups to end one of Africa's deadliest conflicts.
Doctors Without Borders says aid workers in Baraka, a city in northeastern Congo, have treated more than 600 victims of rape and sexual abuse since August of last year. Among the victims were a four-year-old girl and a 70-year-old woman.

And that's just in one province. Congo has 10.

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