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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Mark Townsend in Goma

In the DRC, rape is rife. How can women recover in a war zone?

A woman walks with two people either side of her
A woman receives help from Médecins Sans Frontières in Kanyaruchinya, near Goma, in the DRC. Photograph: Marion Molinari/MSF

They arrive every few minutes, survivors of the unrelenting sexual violence that defines one of the world’s most intractable conflicts. And among the first to assess the exhausted women after they reach the squalid camps on the outskirts of Goma, regional capital of the war-ravaged east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is Irengue Trezor.

The 35-year-old works for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), overseeing the charity’s sexual violence clinics within the sprawling camps of grubby white tents that are home to 650,000 people who have fled the fighting.

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