Congo rapes

THE American Journal of Public Health has found in a study a staggering increase in the rate of rape in the Congo.

The study says 1,152 women are raped every day in Congo, a rate equal to 48 per hour. That’s 26 times more than the figure reported by the UN, which said around 16,000 women were raped in one year.

Congo is a nation of 70 million people equal in size to the US east of the Mississippi.