It is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman – or Christian. The disease is rampant, and children who are not more than 4 years old are forced to work in mines.
Democratic Republic of the Congo It is 95 % Christian, yet jihadist believers target. Only last month, Islamic terrorists, who wanted the eastern part of the country to become an Islamic caliphate, collected 70 Christians and beheaded – in the church.
Women are threatened as well. According to the United Nations, 895 cases of rape were reported in the last two weeks of February alone – at a rate of more than 60 a day.
“Violations of sexual violence and human rights violations, as well as looting and destroying homes and civil companies, said this week,” Patrick Iba, Deputy Director of the International Protection Department at the Commission, said this week, in the east.
The facade of the church that was struck by an artillery shell after the clashes in Juma on January 30, 2025. The seizure of M23 for most Goma, the capital of the Northern Kivo Province, is a major escalation of a decade -long struggle in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Alexis Huguet/AFP via Getty Images)
EBA added that “hundreds of thousands of people (they) in this step,” they flee violence, as many neighboring countries cross.
More than 150 women were raped, then many of them were burned to death, in Guma in October last year. When the M23 rebels advanced in the city, prison guards fled in the local prison. It is said that hundreds of male prisoners jumped over the wall and raped women, before they escaped.
Patients are also in danger. Earlier this week, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordination Office (OCA) had reported that armed men raided at least two hospitals in the capital of Goma in northern Kivu, which led to the kidnapping of dozens of patients.
The disease also chases people – with three “outbreaks” a mystery in the past six months in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the latest, Global Health Organization It was reported at the end of last month that 60 died and 1318 showed the symptoms of suffering from a serious illness that is not yet specified in an equal province.
Internally displaced civilians of the camps in Monigi and Kibati carry their luggage as they flee after fighting between the M23 rebels and the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Juma, on January 26, 2025. (Reuters / Obin Mokoni)
The agency said that the disease is spreading across the body quickly “with an average time of symptoms until the death of one day.” The Ebola virus and Marburg virus tests have returned so far.
In the eastern KIVU provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, hundreds of thousands were displaced, and the rebel groups, which are often supported by a foreigner, pushes government forces in a war “playing in one of the poorest areas of the earth”, and analysts told France Kronji from Fox News Digitter, ”
Children work in a mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (ILO/UNICEF)
“The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo revolves mainly around controlling critical minerals,” Kronji, the advisor of the Yurton Freedom Foundation, continued. “Dozens of rebel groups and some government actors participate in the conflict. KIVU provinces contain wide deposits of these minerals that can be used in applications from defense and AI to green energy.”
Bill Rogio, an older colleague at the Foundation for Democrats (FDD) and Editor of the Long War Journal, Al -Muqalb, also known as ADF, (the rebel group) to the general translated domains.
For more than a decade, children in some regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo faced extreme exploitation and abuse, It is said from ChinaForcing the underground obfuscation in its pursuit of minerals, such as cobalt. An estimated 70 % of the world's cobalt is produced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to the International Edge Research Organization at Michigan State University. China is said to either possess, or possess the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 80 % of the Cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Red Cross workers wiped the area in Bukavo, the second largest city in the eastern Congo, one day after it was taken by M23 Rebels, on February 17, 2025. (AP Photo/January Barhiiga)
This modern child's slavery continues despite screaming. A report to the Parliamentary and Senate Committee in November 2023 stated that the Democratic Republic of the Congo “is a state that has been brutally looted throughout history, nurtured by the thirst of non -operating, non -powerful men of power, wealth, land, copper, palm oil, and now cobalt, at the expense of innocent women, men, and children.”
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The FDD draft from Fox News Digital has been told that there are steps that the Trump administration can take, “from fighting terrorism against one of the most active global branches (ISCAP) to the retreat of a huge, huge regional war, or even to improve rational rule, the most stable, safe and prosperous Congo will undertake the global economy and regional security.”
