Exposing The Brutality Of Sexual Violence In Congo
Chouchou Namegabe (Photo: Manya Gupta)
The Democratic Republic of Congo is blessed with mineral riches.
But the exploitation of those minerals drives much of the violence that plagues the African nation.
In Eastern Congo, the ongoing conflict has included widespread sexual violence.
The details of the attacks are often gruesome: women being brutally raped, beaten and sometimes killed in front of their own children.
We know these horrific details because of people like Chouchou Namegabe.
Namegabe is a Congolese journalist who started a radio talk show in 2001 to air the testimonies of rape survivors
She is also the founder and director of the South Kivu Association of Women Journalists. The group trains Congolese women to report on connection between mass rape and resource extraction.
Now, the issue of mineral extraction and mass rape has reached American College campuses and students want to know what they can do to help the crisis in Congo.
Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Namegabe, who is in the US to deliver keynote address at a conference on the subject at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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