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It is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman or a Christian. Disease is widespread and children from the age of 4 are forced to work in mines.
The Democratic Republic of Congo is 95% Christian, but the believers are targeted by jihadists. It was only last month that the Islamist ADF terrorists, who want the eastern part of the country, round up 70 Christians and beheaded them in a church.
Women are also threatened. According to the United Nations, 895 rape cases have been reported in February in February alone – an average of more than 60 a day.
In the east “Sexual violence and human rights violations remain widespread, as well as the looting and destruction of civilian houses and companies,” said Patrick EBA, deputy director of the international protection department this week.
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The facade of a church, which was hit by an artillery cover in Goma on January 30, 2025. The capture of the most part of Goma of M23, the capital of the province of North Kivu, is a dramatic escalation of a decades of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Alexis Huguet/AFP via Getty Images)
EBA added that “hundreds of thousands of people () are on the move” and flee from violence, whereby many cross to neighboring countries.
In Goma, over 150 inmates were raped in October last year, and many of them burned in Goma. When the rebels of the M23 moved into the city, prison plates fled in the local prison. Hundreds of male inmates are said to have jumped over a wall and raped the women before escaping.
The sick are also at risk. At the beginning of this week, the UN Humanitarian Affair coordinating office reported that armed men had searched at least two hospitals in the capital of North Kivu in the capital Goma, kidnapped the dozens of patients.
The disease also stakes people – with three mysterious “outbreaks” in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past six months. In the last, The World Health Organization From the end of the last month that 60 died, and another 1,318 have shown symptoms of a serious illness that has not yet been identified in the province of Equator.
Civilians from the camps in Munigi and Kibati displaced inside wear their things, while on January 26, 2025 after the fight between M23 rebels and the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo flee in Goma. (Reuters / Aubin Mukoni)
The agency said that the disease quickly spread through the body “with a middle time from the symptoms to death a day”. The tests for Ebola and the Marburg virus have so far come back negatively.
In the eastern provinces of the Kivu of the Democratic Republic of Congo, hundreds of thousands were driven out because rebel groups, which were often in a foreign back, push back government troops in a war to “play out in one of the poorest regions on earth,” said analyst Frans Cronje to Fox News Digital and added.
Boys who work in a mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Ilo/Unicef)
“The conflict in the DRC is essentially about the control of critical minerals,” continued Cronje, advisor to the Yorktown Foundation for Freedom. “Numerous rebel groups and some state actors are involved.
Bill Roggio, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) and editor of the Long War Journal, told Fox News Digital: “I would argue that the minerals are only partially or even tangent. With the Ethnic State, such as with the Ethnic State, as with the associative melvation), such as with the Ethnic State, as with the Ethnic State, they are like an associatic militian group (Association -Milit groups).
And for more than a decade, children have been exposed to extreme exploitation and abuse in some DRC areas. Reports from Chinaforced to be deep underground in search of metals like cobalt. According to the Global Edge Research Organization of the Michigan State University, an estimated 70% of the global cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo are produced. China is said to have 80% of the cobalt mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo of the Democratic Republic of Congo of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The workers of the Red Cross clear the area in Bukavu, the second largest city of East Congo, one day after taking M23 rebels on February 17, 2025. (AP Photo/January Barhahiga)
This modern children’s slavery continues despite the rash. In a report of a joint committee for the house and Senate in November 2023 it says that the DRC is “a country that was brutally looted in the course of history and was heated by corrupt insatiable thirst for power, wealth, land, rubber, copper, palm oil and now cobalt, all at the expense of innocent women, men and children.
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“Children aged 4 and over are forced to reduce cobalt,” Jason Isaac told Fox News Digital last year. Isaac is the founder and CEO of the American Energy Institute.
The Bill Roggio of the FDD told Fox News Digital that the Trump management could be undertaken by the Trump government, “from terrorism against one of the most active global branches (ISCAP) to a potential massive regional war or even to improve good government, a more stable, safer and prospering Congo, the miracles for the global economy and the security of the regional economy and the security of the security do regional region. “
