Congo rampage leads to 150 rape incidents

GENEVA: Renegade soldiers are suspected of having raped more than 150 women and girls during a new rampage in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo this month, UN officials said.

The United Nations is to give first official details on Friday of an investigation into the attacks in the Minembwe area of Sud Kivu province between June 10 and June 12.

But the attacks came just after about 200 former rebels quit a training center for forces being incorporated into the national army, according to a UN official speaking on condition of anonymity. A DR Congo legislator from Sud Kivu, Jean-Marie Ngoma, this week blamed the assaults on soldiers who used to be from the Mai Mai militia, headed by a colonel named as Niragire Kifaru. AFP