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It is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman, or Christian. The disease is rampant, and children of up to 4 years are forced to work in mines.
The Democratic Republic of Congo It is 95% Christian, but the faithful are being attacked by jihadists. Last month, the terrorists of the ADF Islamists, who want the eastern part of the country to become a Muslim caliphate, gather 70 Christians and decapitate them, in a church.
Women are also under threat. According to the UN, 895 cases of violation 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 abuses remain unbridled, as well as looting and destruction of civilian homes and businesses,” said Patrick EBA, deputy director of the UNHCR International Protection Division, this week.
The facade of a church hit by an artillery shell after rubber clashes on January 30, 2025. The capture of M23 of most rubber, the capital of the province of North Kivu, is a dramatic escalation of a conflict of a decade in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Alexis Huguet/AFP through Getty Images)
EBA added that “hundreds of thousands of people (they are) in motion”, fleeing violence, and many cross neighboring countries.
More than 150 inmates were raped, and many of them burned until death, in rubber in October last year. When M23 rebels advanced in the city, the prison guards in the local prison fled. It is said that hundreds of inmates jumped on a wall and raped women, before escaping.
The patients are also at risk. Earlier this week, the UN Humanitarian Affairs Coordination Office (Ocha) reported that armed men had raided at least two hospitals in the capital of North Kivu, kidnapping dozens of patients.
The disease also stalks people, with three mysterious “outbreaks” in the last six months in the RDC. In the last, The World Health Organization He declared at the end of last month that 60 have died and another 1,318 have shown symptoms of suffering of a serious illness not yet identified in the Iguala province.
The internally displaced civilians from the fields of Munigi and Kibati carry their belongings while fleeing after the fight between the M23 rebels and the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in rubber, on January 26, 2025. (Reuters / Aubin Mukoni)
The agency said the disease extends through the body quickly “with an average time from the beginning of the symptoms to the death of a day.” The tests for Ebola and Marburg virus have become negative so far.
In the eastern provinces of Kivu of the RDC, hundreds of thousands have been displaced, such as rebel groups, often backed abroad, they go back to government troops in a war “that develops in one of the poorest regions of the earth,” said Frans Chronje analyst Fox News Digital, adding: “Thousands have been killed, the diagrams of diseases are common (Y) Women live under the constant fear of rap and abuse. ” ”
Children who work in a mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (ILO/UNICEF)
“The conflict in the RDC is essentially on the control of critical minerals,” said Cronje, an advisor to the Yorktown Foundation Foundation for Freedom. “Dozens of rebel groups and some state actors are involved in the conflict. The two provinces of Kivu contain large deposits of these minerals that could be used in defense applications and AI to green energy.”
Bill Roggio, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for 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 Tangentially, told. Rwanda/M23 (Rebel Group), To Ethnic Like Codeco, (An Association of Militia Groups) to Religious, Like Islamic State Central Africa Province, also known as ADF, (Rebel Group) for only localized bandider.
And, for more than a decade, children in some areas of the RDC have faced extreme exploitation and abuse, As reported by ChinaForced to extract deeply underground in your search for metals as Cobalt. It is estimated that 70% of the world cobalt occurs in the RDC, according to the Global Edge Research Organization of the Michigan State University. It is said that China owns or is co -owner of the Government of the RDC, 80% of the Cobalt mines of the RDC.
The Red Cross workers clear the area in Bukavu, the second largest city in the East Congo, a day after it was taken by the M23 rebels, on February 17, 2025. (Photo AP/Barhahiga in January)
This modern child slavery continues despite the protest. A report to a joint camera and a Senate committee in November 2023 declared that the RDC “is a country that has been brutally looted throughout history, fed by a thirst for power, earth, earth, rubber, copper, palm oil and now cobalt, all at the expense of innocent women, men and children.”
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“Children up to 4 years are forced to extract cobalt,” Jason Isaac told Fox News Digital last year. Isaac is the founder and CEO of the American Energy Institute.
The Roggio FDD bill told Fox Digital that there are steps that the Trump administration could take, “from terrorism against one of the” most active global branches (ISCAP) until a possible mass regional war, or even improve good governance, a more stable, secure and prosperous cónico would make Wonders for the global economy and regional security. “
