Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) treated more than 670 women - or nearly 50 per day - at three sites between April 17 and 30 who had been subjected to sexual violence.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 20 - Four men with machetes were hard on their heels as a group of women raced through the dense forest surrounding east Congo's city of Goma, desperate to reach a displacement camp they had left to collect firewood."He raped me," she recalled two weeks later in Bulengo, one of several camps near Goma sheltering about 600,000 people that have fled conflict zones.
Rape has been widely documented as a weapon of war used by armed militia groups that have been active in Congo's east since the end of two civil wars waged between 1996 and 2003. Many have sought refuge in crowded camps like Bulengo, where humanitarian workers are struggling to cope.
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