{"id":446417,"date":"2011-06-23T19:53:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T19:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/23\/congo-kinshasa-peacekeepers-investigate-reports-of-multiple-rapes\/"},"modified":"2011-06-23T19:53:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T19:53:44","slug":"congo-kinshasa-peacekeepers-investigate-reports-of-multiple-rapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/23\/congo-kinshasa-peacekeepers-investigate-reports-of-multiple-rapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo-Kinshasa: Peacekeepers Investigate Reports of Multiple Rapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"21.8131402331\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/region.asp?Region=AFRICA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/unnews180.jpg\" alt=\"UN News Service (New\u00a0York)\" title=\"Visit UN News Service (New\u00a0York)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>23 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The United Nations is dispatching some of its peacekeepers to a town in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to investigate reports of recent rapes, a spokesperson said today.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Nesirky, a spokesperson for the Secretary-General, told journalists that the UN has received &#8220;several worrying reports about incidents of an unknown number of alleged rapes and looting committed in the Nyakiele area in South Kivu [province], some 40 kilometres north of Fizi town, between 9 and 12 June.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the UN&#8217;s mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) was sending a team to the town, which is eight hours by foot from the nearest UN military base.<\/p>\n<p>Many towns and settlements in the DRC are extremely remote because of a lack of roads and other basic infrastructure and because of the often difficult terrain.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Nesirky said the humanitarian non-governmental organization (NGO) M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res had separately reported treating more than 100 victims of rape and other forms of trauma since staff arrived at Nyakiele on 21 June.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106231274.html\" title=\"Congo-Kinshasa: Peacekeepers Investigate Reports of Multiple Rapes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Congo-Kinshasa: Peacekeepers Investigate Reports of Multiple Rapes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 23 June 2011 The United Nations is dispatching some of its peacekeepers to a town in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to investigate reports of recent rapes, a spokesperson said today. Martin Nesirky, a spokesperson for the Secretary-General, told journalists that the UN has received &#8220;several worrying reports about incidents of an unknown number of alleged rapes and looting committed in the Nyakiele area in South Kivu [province], some 40 kilometres north of Fizi town, between 9 and 12 June.&#8221; He said the UN&#8217;s mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) was sending a team to the town, which is eight hours by foot from the nearest UN military base. Many towns and settlements in the DRC are extremely remote because of a lack of roads and other basic infrastructure and because of the often difficult terrain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":403746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-446417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Congo-Kinshasa: Peacekeepers Investigate Reports of Multiple Rapes - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/23\/congo-kinshasa-peacekeepers-investigate-reports-of-multiple-rapes\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Congo-Kinshasa: Peacekeepers Investigate Reports of Multiple Rapes - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"23 June 2011 The United Nations is dispatching some of its peacekeepers to a town in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to investigate reports of recent rapes, a spokesperson said today. 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