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Washington Diverts More Money to the Congo as Violence, Rape, and the Humanitarian Crisis Deepens

America declared last month that it would provide an additional $414 million in humanitarian aid to the embattled Democratic Republic of Congo, bringing the total to more than $838 million in less than a year.

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Escalating fighting between the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group and pro-government forces in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has displaced hundreds of thousands of people in the eastern part of the country, swelling the population in Goma, the region's largest city. Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/Getty Images
HOLLIE McKAY
HOLLIE McKAY

Three masked assailants, in the early Spring of 2017, burst into the home at Kinshasa of a then-39-year-old secretary. She was gang-raped at gunpoint, with her sons — then 14 and 6 — forced to watch.

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HOLLIE McKAY
HOLLIE McKAY

Ms. McKay is a war and humanitarian-focused international correspondent and author of 'Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield,' 'Afghanistan: The End of the US Footprint and Rise of the Taliban Rule,' and 'The Dictator's Wife.'

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