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Congo sex slavery conviction shows progress towards justice – rights groups

Thomson Reuters Foundation Democratic Republic of Congo’s jailing of a warlord for sexual slavery shows it is cracking down on a longstanding culture of impunity, rights groups and lawyers said on Wednesday. A military court in the central African country sentenced Lieutenant-Colonel Maro Ntumwa, nicknamed “Marocain”, to 20 years in prison on Saturday for crimes […]