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UN: 650 Rapes Reported on Angola-DRC Border

HeadlineNov 08, 2010

In news from Africa, the United Nations has revealed more than 650 women and girls have been raped during mass expulsions from Angola to the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past two months. Victims said they were locked up and tortured for several weeks while they were raped repeatedly by security forces.

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