Entries for the 'DRC' Category

The conflict in Congo, often referred to as Africa’s World War, has its roots in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. After Tutsi soldiers seized power, ending the genocide, 2 million Hutu Rwandans, many of them perpetrators, poured over the border into Congo (then Zaire). There, Hutu rebels reassembled as the Rassemblement Démocratique pour le Rwanda (RDR). The RDR began conducting cross-border assaults back into Rwanda... More

I’m 15 years old. My name is Josephine. Josephine is my name. While we were sleeping, very early in the morning, around three o’clock, we heard gunshots so we fled In the place where I fled I came across three soldiers and each of them took me as if I were his wife. I left with the soldiers into the forest. The last took me and then gave me his bottles to carry. I spent four and a half months in the forest Wh... More