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/ 6 December 2003
Jeanne Tabaro is one of the chosen ones. She has Aids, she is poor, she lives in Africa, which is to say she should soon die. But her smile indicates a different fate: Jeanne expects to live. The 41-year-old mother of four recently started receiving free treatment with anti-Aids drugs which could keep her alive and healthy for decades, an option denied to all but a handful of the 30-million Africans with HIV.
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/ 13 November 2003
After raping teenaged Marie, three uniformed soldiers left her in a forest in Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu province, where sexual violence is widespread. ”With the war, it was impossible to get to a hospital,” recalled the 17-year-old, between sobs brought on by the memory.
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.
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.
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.