...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
(D.R.C.) during the agency’s response to the country’s Ebola outbreak from August 2018 to June 2020, Rooters reported Wednesday."More people [have] come forward alleging abuses by aid workers at the time," Rooters paraphrased Dr. Gaya Gamhewage — the W.H.O.’s acting director of prevention and response to sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment — as saying on October 27.
"We have heard through the inter-agency network that there are more complaints in Goma," she said. Goma is the capital of D.R.C.’s North Kivu province.
Gamhewage said she could not verify the exact number of new allegations as she "did not have access to the complaints due to confidentiality issues."
Several local residents of the D.R.C.’s North Kivu and Ituri regions have accused at least 21 W.H.O. staff members of perpetrating acts of "sexual abuse and exploitation (S.E.A.)" against them during a period spanning August 2018 to June 2020. The W.H.O. employees were stationed in eastern D.R.C. as part of the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
(U.N.) health agency’s response to a regional Ebola outbreak. An independent commission contracted by the W.H.O. to investigate the allegations of S.E.A. published its initial findings on September 28.
The commission’s report detailed "multiple allegations of rape and offers of employment in exchange for sex," W.H.O. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowledged on October 21.