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Systematic sexual violence continues to be carried out against Congolese women and girls caught up in mass expulsions from Angola to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a United Nations envoy said on Friday. Community leaders recorded 182 reported rapes in seven villages along the border in January alone, while a UN assessment mission confirmed 1 357 reported rape cases in one village in a six-to-eight-month pe riod last year, said an official. Investigation confirms that violence took place in detention facilitites on both sides of the border. |
