Africa: Nobel Laureate Urges End to Impunity On Rape As Weapon of War

Yaounde — Denis Mukwege founded the Panzi Hospital in 1999 to help women and girls who had been raped during the conflict in eastern Congo

The Congolese doctor who won this year's Nobel peace prize has called on the world to end rape as a weapon of war, saying a "system of impunity" still prevails in many of the worst-affected countries.

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