Tag: Bukavu

  • Nation & World

    Congo: Just here suffering

    Imani was just 15 when soldiers from the rebel group Interahamwe found her on the road in a remote region in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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  • Nation & World

    Congo: Survivors sing of brutality and hope

    The eastern DRC is swept up in a maelstrom of violence against women that has swirled for more than a decade. Researchers and physicians from Harvard and its affiliated hospitals are providing critical care for women fractured by their experiences.

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  • Nation & World

    Congo: Panzi-HHI partnership

    Harvard’s partnership with a Congolese hospital seeks to understand the causes of the violence against women that hangs like a toxic cloud over a huge swath of this enormous country in Africa’s midsection.

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