CONGOLESE WOMEN MARCH FROM PARIS TO BRUSSELS July 14, 2011
Source: France 24
Over 300 km in a little under 14 days, covered entirely on foot. That’s the gruelling challenge a group of Congolese activists set for themselves when they decided to march from Paris to Brussels to draw attention to the plight of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Mass rapes have long been used as a weapon of war in DRC, which is still plagued by army and militia violence despite the official end of the country’s five-year war in 2003. Sexual violence is particularly rife in the turbulent border region of North Kivu, where humanitarian groups estimate that one in three women has been raped at least once in her lifetime. According to Anneka Van Woudenberg, a senior Congo researcher at Human Rights Watch, rape in the east African country has become “the norm” because of the “widespread nature” of the conflict in the country. read entire article here
CONGOLESE ACTIVIST MARIE-CLAIRE FARAY-KELE SPEAKS OUT
NEW INTERVIEW WITH KAMBALE MUSAVULI
October 26, 2009
"What we have to do is organize to resist the militarization of the continent and one key ingredient of such organizing is educating the public about the true nature of US involvement in Africa. Remember it’s not a question for whether the US will be involved in Congo and Africa but rather how they will be involved. We are calling for the US to be involved diplomatically and politically not militarily...." read entire interview here
