FARDC

• August 16, 2017

A militia from the Kasaï Central Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was “likely” responsible for the murders of the two United Nations experts who were killed in March 2017 in the province, according to a fact-finding report from an independent board assigned by the UN to investigate the deaths. The board …

Africa, Geopolitics, Security Council

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Congo Army Rapes Detailed in UN Report as Special Brigade Arrives

Tala Dowlatshahi

• May 15, 2013

The cycle of sexual violence that has been churning throughout the eastern half of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has refused to stop, despite all the steps the United Nations has taken over decades to end the epidemic. Just last fall, systematic rapes, committed by the Congolese Army, occurred in an area around …