It was while she was on her way to collect the body of her sister-in-law last year that Christine was raped. She resisted, so her attacker — a member of the main rebel group, she believes — shot her twice in the vagina.
A group of armed men has taken control of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Bunyakiri after Rwandan troops pulled out of the area, administrative sources said here Thursday.
When Francois Amani goes fishing, he always takes a radio — his sole source of companionship during long nights spent earning a living on the windy waters of Lake Kivu.
An estimated 40 000 residents have fled a town in the troubled South Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after it was occupied last week by a local tribal militia.