[All Africa] Congolese officials are promising to set up an independent inquiry and punish local officials involved in sexual assaults detailed in a recent investigation by the World Health Organization (WHO).
But Kinshasa's promise comes as those who had blown the whistle on abuses received threats for pushing for offenders to be punished in a country where such abuses are reported on a regular basis.
A damning report by the WHO last week indicated that massive sexual abuse, including rape, was committed by employees of the UN agency as well as officials in the local health ministry in North Kivu and Ituri between 2018 and 2020 as the Democratic Republic of the Congo |