Congo rape victims' scars are hard to heal
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BUKAVU, Congo  - Speaking softly, tears welling in   her eyes, the 16-year-old Congolese girl tells how she was   abducted from her home by militiamen, taken to the forest and   gang raped for a week.
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Human Rights Watch says fighters in the DR Congo are committing rape and murder and the UN is "slow" to react.
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Hands aloft and tears streaming down her   cheeks, Alicia Chipoyi prayed in a high-pitched voice for   spiritual healing for the wounds caused by years of slavery and   colonization of Africa by Europeans.
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DARFUR, Sudan: Khadijah Mohammed Ali Ardamatta, a resident of the Ardamatta camp in West Darfur, removed her shawl to show a deep wound in her chest sustained when Arab militias attacked her in February in her village of Noury.
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Reports of rape are still rife in Darfur, western Sudan, perpetrators of abuses act with impunity, and civilians are being pressured to return to insecure areas, a UN team said on Monday.
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KANANGA, Congo  - From a mud hut under the world's longest high-tension power line, Tshisumpa Nvita can see the rusting remains of a power station that, for a few months 30 years ago, brought electricity to this corner of Congo.
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A strict ban on granting new logging concessions in Congo's rainforest must be maintained while the poor African country struggles to recover from years of war, conservationists said on Saturday.
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A massacre in Gatumba refugee camp in the small east African country of Burundi on Friday, August 13th has resulted in at least 164 Congolese dead, 107 injured, and a completely leveled and destroyed camp, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) reported today.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The family of a 7-year-old Afghan girl raped by two men has come forward to demand justice, defying social customs that view such attacks as a stain on the victim's honor. Two months after the rape, the girl is still in pain, rarely speaks, and looks no one in the eye.
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Sudan is in denial about the extent of rape in refugee camps in its traumatised Darfur region where fear and distrust of the government is pervasive, the United Nations&#39; top human rights official says.
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A convicted rapist claims his human rights have been breached because he has not been granted early release.
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Amid rusted hulks of abandoned  plants and huge mine craters, Congo's former top copper town  Kolwezi is showing signs of a reawakening.
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The young woman's smile is sad, her greeting weary. Raped by her half brother, Farida took refuge in one of 30 safe houses throughout the Algerian capital that shelter abused women.
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A witness has told a Rwandan commission  French troops raped women fleeing militia gangs during the  African country's 1994 genocide, the latest in a string of  allegations against France from Kigali.
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Trauma and malnutrition leave many refugee mothers unable to breast-feed.
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War, disease and malnutrition are killing 45,000 Congolese every month in a conflict-driven humanitarian crisis that has claimed 5.4 million victims in nearly a decade, a survey released on Tuesday said.
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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- Naomi Ewowo had just lost her parents when her family branded her a witch. She was 5.