Congolese President Tshisekedi sworn in for second term after disputed vote
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo Reuters Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi was sworn in for a second five-year term on Saturday after a landslide victory his opponents have refused to recognise due to widespread irregularities over the December general election. Authorities have acknowledged there were issues but dismissed allegations the vote was stolen. […]
Mobile court offers rare chance of justice for east Congo rape victims
Kamanyola, Democratic Republic of CongoReuters A large crowd gathered around the open sides of the makeshift courtroom in the eastern Congolese village of Kamanyola in early March to watch the culmination of a trial of 15 military officers for the rape of minors. They watched in silence, some craning to see better, as a soldier […]
World Council of Churches urges protection for Nobel laureate Dr Denis Mukwege following death threats
The World Council of Churches has urged UN officials to call upon the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to protect Nobel laureate Denis Mukwege following news of death threats against him. In an unusual step, Peter Prove, director of the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, has sent a letter to three […]
Nobel Prize winner warns wildfires threaten Iraqi mass graves
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Nobel Prize-winner and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad has warned that wildfires raging in northern Iraq could destroy crucial evidence of genocide committed by Islamic State. Murad, a survivor of sexual slavery, said the fires had burned some of the 79 mass graves in the Sinjar region where victims of Islamic State atrocities […]
Nobel laureate urges end to impunity on rape as weapon of war
Thomson Reuters Foundation The Congolese doctor who won this year’s Nobel peace prize has called on the world to end rape as a weapon of war, saying a “system of impunity” still prevails in many of the worst-affected countries. Denis Mukwege, joint winner of the prize with Nadia Murad, a Yazidi survivor of sexual slavery […]
LIFESTORY: CONGOLESE PENTECOSTALS SEE DENIS MUKWEGE, NOBEL PRIZE WINNING DOCTOR, AS A “BLESSING”
FREDRICK NZWILI, of Religion News Service, reports…
Quick facts – Persecution of the Yazidi people
Thomson Reuters Foundation Nadia Murad, a Yazidi rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by the so-called Islamic State, won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Murad was 21 in 2014 when Islamic State militants attacked the village where she had grown up in northern Iraq. She was taken into captivity by the militants, […]
Nobel Peace Prize for two campaigners against rape as a weapon of war
World Watch Monitor The Congolese physician Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi, were awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict”, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. “Denis Mukwege is the helper who has devoted his life to defending […]