Rebel Congo gangs out for revenge

Men displaced by war get haircuts at Bulengo camp just outside Goma in eastern Congo, February 26, 2009. The UN said today the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo were conducting “hit-and-run” attacks on former positions lost in the last month after a joint-military operation between Rwanda and Congo. Photo/REUTERS By JOSH KRON, NATION Correspondent, [...]

War Against Women

CNN’s Anderson Cooper went to the Congo and filmed a documentary. Here is a part of that film: War Against Women It won’t let me embed the video but please click the link and watch. It’s about 12 minutes long. It will give you a deeper understanding of what’s going on. Help us help them! [...]

From CNN.com: One’ Congolese Woman’s ‘Silent Scream’ is heard

(CNN) — Honorata Kizende was hiding in a house when the soldiers came. They kicked the front door down and found her huddling with her five children and another woman. Honorata Kizende can smile again after surviving a four-year ordeal that almost destroyed her life The men asked the women if they were hiding their [...]

No Safe Return for the Displaced People of the Congo

All credit to Action Aid UK. I felt this was a stirring article and wanted to share.  People in Congo who were displaced by fighting are not returning home despite a ceasefire, ActionAid says. Hundreds of thousands of people fled their homes in November and sought shelter in camps near the town of Goma after [...]

Congo Fact of the Day IV

Women in the Congo are often ostracized from their communities and shunned to live in refuge homes. Volunteers and workers can help the Congo women get their lives back by teaching them how to cook and make soaps and other trades so that they can begin to get back on track. 

From the soldiers: Why they rape

This is a clip from a documentary done on the rape atrocities in the Congo. Check it out. In this clip the soldiers are explaining why they rape, and their beliefs behind it.      JG*

10 Things You Can Do

To help end femicide in the Congo.  I got this in an email and wanted to share! Original Credit goes to Walter Mosley at The Nation. Please read:  The peace agreement signed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006 did not end the war. An estimated 400,000 women have been raped in the past [...]

Rebels warn of fresh clashes in DRC

From Mail & Gaurdian Online:  The leader of Rwandan Hutu rebels on Wednesday predicted that intense fighting would erupt within days in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) amid an expected assault by government forces on rebel positions. “They have finished getting into position on the ground. We are expecting real clashes in the coming [...]

Mywazo’s Story

I gathered this story from Women’s News online and wanted to share.  ~~~~~~~~ Twenty-five-year-old Mywazo is the proud mother of two. But she doubts her husband can ever accept that about her. Not after what happened. For three and a half years, beginning in 2004, Mywazo was held hostage in the forests surrounding her village. [...]

Congo Fact of the Day III

There is a group in the Congo called the Rastas, they are a gang of fugitives who live deep in the forest, wear shiny tracksuits and Los Angeles Lakers jerseys and are notorious for burning babies, kidnapping women and literally chopping up anybody who gets in their way.