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Over 50 women accuse aid workers of sex abuse in Congo Ebola crisis

Over 50 women accuse aid workers of sex abuse in Congo Ebola crisis

ROBERT FLUMMERFELT and NELLIE PEYTON MORE than 50 women have accused Ebola aid workers from the World Health Organization and leading NGOs of sexual exploitation and abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an investigation by The New Humanitarian and the Thomson Reuters Foundation revealed. In interviews, 51 women - many of whose accounts were backed up by aid agency drivers and local NGO workers - recounted multiple incidents of abuse, mainly by men who said they were international workers, during the 2018 to 2020 Ebola crisis. The majority of the women said numerous men had either propositioned them, forced…
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