It is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman – or a Christian. Illness is unbridled and children are forced to work in mines.
The Democratic Republic Congo Is 95% Christian, but the believers are the target of jihadists. Last month, Islamist ADF terrorists, who want the eastern part of the country to become a Muslim caliphate, 70 Christians on each other and beheaded – in a church.
Women are also threatened. According to the UN alone, 895 cases of rape were reported in the last two weeks of February – an average of more than 60 per day.
In the east, “sexual violence and human rights violations are unbridled, just like looting and destroying citizenshouses and companies,” said Patrick Eba, deputy director of the Division of International Protection of UNHCR, this week.
The facade of a church affected by an artillery shell after collisions in Goma on January 30, 2025. M23’s conquest of most of Goma, the capital of the province of North Kivu, is a dramatic escalation of a decadium-length conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Alexis Huguet/AFP via Getty images)
Eba added that “hundreds of thousands of people (are) in motion”, fleeing the violence, with many crossing to neighboring countries.
More than 150 female prisoners were raped and many of them then burned in Goma in October last year. As M23 rebels went to the city, prison guards fled in the local prison. Hundreds of male prisoners are said to have jumped over a wall and raped the women before they escape.
The sick are also in danger. Earlier this week, the UN Humanitarian Affairs Coordination Office (OCA) reported that armed men had raided at least two hospitals in the capital Goma of Noord -Kivu, who kidnapped dozens of patients.
Illness also stalks people – with three mysterious “outbreaks” in the DRC in the past six months. In the last, The World Health Organization At the end of last month that 60 deceased and another 1,318 demonstrated symptoms of suffering from a non -created serious illness in the province of Sifateur.
Internal displaced citizens from the camps in Munigi and Kibati carry their possessions while fleeing after the fight between M23 rebels and the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Goma, on January 26, 2025. (Reuters / Aubin Mukoni)
The agency said that the disease quickly spreads through the body “with a median time from the beginning of symptoms to the death of one day.” Tests for Ebola and the Marburg virus have returned negatively so far.
In the Eastern Kivu provinces of the DRC, hundreds of thousands are displaced, because rebel groups, often supported abroad, push the government forces back into a war “that plays in one of the poorest regions of the earth,” analysts Frans Cronje told Fox news digital, “Dice Pandemics are exploded, (and) Living Pandemics are exploded, (and) Disease Pandemics, (and) Very Pandemics are exploded, (and) Disease Pandemics, (and) Disease Pandemics, (and) Disease Pandemics, (and) Disease Pandemics, (and) Disease Pandemics, (and) Disease Pandemics,” Living) The Pandemics Housing, “Disease Pandemics.” ”
Boys who work in a mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (ILO/UNICEF)
“The conflict in the DRC is essentially about control over critical minerals,” Cronje, a consultant for the Yorktown Foundation for Freedom, continued. “Dozens of rebel groups and some state actors are working on the conflict. The two KIVU provinces contain enormous deposits of these minerals that can be used in applications of defense and AI to green energy.”
Bill Roggio, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and editor of the Long War Journal, Fox News Digital told: “I would claim that the minerals are only partial, or even tangentially, related. The main violence of the rwesties of regional wick Encto) to Ethnic (Reco) to Ethnice) to Ethnice) to Ethnic (an association of militical groups) to Ethic, also known as ADF, (rebellion group) for only general localized banditry.
And for more than ten years, children in some DRC areas have had to deal with extreme exploitation and abuse, Allegedly from ChinaForced to reclaim deep underground in his search for metals such as Kobalt. According to the Global Edge Research Organization of Michigan State University, an estimated 70% of the cobalt of the world is produced in the DRC. China is said to be his own or co-owner of the Government of the DRC, 80% of the DRC cobalt mines.
Red Cross employees will clear the area in Bukavu, the second largest city in East Congo, one day after it was taken by M23 rebels, on 17 February 2025. (AP Photo/January Barhahiga)
This modern children’s slavery continues despite the protest. A report to a joint home and senate committee in November 2023 stated that the DRC “is a country that is brutally looted in history, fed by corrupt gentlemen unimpaired thirst for power, wealth, rubber, copper, palm oil and now cobalt, all at the expense of innocent women, men and children.”
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“Children as young as 4 are forced to exploit cobalt,” Jason Isaac told Fox News Digital last year. Isaac is the founder and CEO of the American Energy Institute.
Bill Roggio of the FDD told Fox News Digital that there are steps that the Trump administration could take, “from terrorism against one of the most active global branches (ISCAP) to the decline of a potential massive regional war, or even to improve good governance, a more stable, safe and prosperous miracle and prosperous miracles safety.”
