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One month ago today, Invisible Children brought to the world's attention the little known plight of children abducted by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda. A new video from the charity sheds more light on the conflict.
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Toronto -
Today protesters marched down Yonge Street in Toronto's downtown to protest the killings that are going on in their homeland of the Congo.
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Kinshasa -
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the loser of recent national elections, Etienne Tshisekedi, had prepared to declare himself president today, found security forces blocking his residence and prevented the alternative ”swearing in”.
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Fizi -
Local media outlets are reporting that 100 women have been sexually assaulted and injured over a two-day time period. Suspected Congo rebels are accused of being involved in the latest case of mass rape.
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The ultimate price of war is the destruction of people's spirit. In the Congo, rape is destroying women, children and men in the most brutal way.
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An explorer is attempting to walk 4,000 miles solo across Africa from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. If successful he will be the first American to walk alone from coast to coast across Africa.
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Journalists for Human Rights, a Canada international media development organization, is working in the Congo to help local reporters cover the elections this year.
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Between January 19 and 21 Doctors Without Borders treated 53 women, men, and children who were raped in the South Kivu Province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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French authorities have arrested in Paris the alleged leader of a Rwandan rebel group accused of mass rapes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Monday.
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Human rights activists around the world have called for international justice and an end to impunity in the wake of the UN Mapping Report on Human Rights Abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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A mass funeral is held in the Republic of Congo for some of the victims of last week's explosion in the capital.
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