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Zania sits with her child in their shared room at Panzi hospital in Bukavu, DRC. Zania was abducted and held for a year by rebel soldiers in the forests, where she was raped daily. Zania was carrying her son who was then only a few months old when she was abducted. Her son spent the first year of his life in a forest camp watching watching his mother suffer at the hands of soldiers.
Photo by Lori Waselchuck

Congo: The World's Deadliest Emergency

More than 5.4 million people have died since 1998 in this conflict.
Read more about The War.

Half of these deaths are children under the age of five.
Read about Children in Congo.

For women in Congo, brutal gang rape and torture are a daily reality.
Read about what it is like for Women in Congo.

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