It is one of the most dangerous places in the world, either women or Christians. The disease is ramp-prolonged, and the 4-year-old is forced to work in the mines.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is 95% Christian, but loyal people are targeted by jihadists. Last month, Muslim ADF terrorists hoped the country's eastern part of the country would become a Muslim caliphate, rounding up 70 Christians and beheading them in the church.
Women are also under threat. According to the United Nations, 895 rape cases were reported in the last two weeks of February alone. This averages over 60 per day.
In the East, “sexual violence and human rights abuses remain ramp-up, as well as the looting and destruction of private homes and businesses,” said Patrick EBA, deputy director of international protection at UNHCR.
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The church facade was attacked by artillery shells after a collision in Goma on January 30, 2025. What captured most of Goma, the capital of North Kivu, is a dramatic escalation of a decade-long conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Alexisuguet/AFP via Getty Images)
The EBA added that “hungry thousands of people are moving,” and that many people are fleeing violence and intersecting with neighboring countries.
In Goma last October, more than 150 female inmates were raped, many of whom were burned out. As the M23 rebels advanced in the city, local prison prison guards fled. Hundreds of male inmates allegedly leapt over the wall and raped a woman before fleeing.
Illness is also at risk. Earlier this week, the UN Humanitarian Agreement Agency (OCHA) reported that an armed man had attacked at least two hospitals in Goma, the capital of the North Kivu, and aided dozens of patients.
Illness also attacks people – there have been three mysterious “events” in DRC over the past six months. The latest state, the World Health Organization said 60 people died later last month, and another 1,318 people are showing symptoms suffering from a serious, unidentified illness in Equateur.
On January 26, 2025, civilians who were internally evacuated from the camps of Munigi and Kibati carry their belongings as they fled after the battle between the M23 rebels and the army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters/Obin Mukoni)
The agency said the disease spreads quickly and quickly “from the onset of symptoms to the death of a day.” Testing for Ebola and Marburg viruses has returned to negative so far.
In the eastern state of the DRC, hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated, as rebel groups often push back government forces in wars where foreigners often “play in one of the poorest regions of the world.”
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Boys working in mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (ilo/unicef)
“The DRC conflict is essentially about the control of minerals of importance,” continues Cronje, an advisor to the Yorktown Foundation's Freedom Foundation. “Rebel groups and some state actors are engaged in conflict. The two Kivu provinces contain vast sediments of these minerals that can be used in applications ranging from defense and AI to green energy.”
Bill Lodgeo, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Democracy and Defense of the Democracy (FDD) and editor of the Long War Journal, told Fox News Digital: The Central African state, also known as ADF (Rebel Group), controls the common local bandits, but not all. ”
And for more than a decade, children in some DRC regions have faced extreme exploitation and abuse reportedly forced to mine deep underground in the quest for metals such as cobalt. According to the Michigan State University's Global Edge Research Institute, an estimated 70% of cobalt worldwide is produced by DRC. China is said to own or jointly own the DRC government, which is 80% of the DRC cobalt mines.
Red Cross workers cleared the area of Bukabu, the second largest city in East Congo, a day after being taken away by the M23 rebels on February 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Janvier Barhahiga)
This modern child slavery continues despite protests. A report to the Joint House and Senate Committee in November 2023 states that the DRC is “a country that has been brutally plundered throughout history, spurring the richness of corrupt men, the thirst of craving for the land, rubber, copper, palm oil and the present cobalt.”
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“The younger children, four years old, are forced to mine cobalt,” Jason Isaac told Fox News Digital last year. Isaac is the founder and CEO of the American Energy Institute.
“There are steps the Trump administration can take,” FDD's Bill Roggio told Fox News Digital.
