Congo-Kinshasa: For Victims of the Ituri Conflict's Sexual Violence, Aid Is Scarce

20 March 2018

Kyangwali — Around 8pm one January night, the bullets started flying through the village of Blukwa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri Province. It was just one incident in a wave of violence that has flared up in the region in recent months, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee.

As with conflicts elsewhere in Congo, rape and other forms of sexual violence feature prominently in the Ituri attacks, in which hundreds of people have been killed.

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