The young woman and her six children ran into a group of men not far from the village in eastern DRC’s volatile North Kivu province.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, November 26 (UNHCR) – Twenty-eight-year-old widow Kahindo is lucky to be alive after being attacked and abused by armed men while fleeing her village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country with one of the highest rates of rape in the world.
Displaced females are at risk of sexual violence in the region.ġ6 Days of Activism: The forgotten victims of conflict in the Congo
A group of displaced women making handicrafts in eastern Congo.