Our prayers need to go out to the women and children in eastern Congo, according to The East African:

According to the report, systematic and widespread crimes against humanity continue to haunt the region...

By the end of this month, 45,000 more Congolese — half of them children — will die from hunger, preventable disease and other consequences of violence and displacement.

“Congolese women and girls in particular bear the brunt of this crisis. Indeed, eastern Congo right now is perhaps the worst place in the world to be a woman or a girl,” the report says.

The sexual violence and rape exists on a scale seen nowhere else in the world as it is part and parcel of the conflict. It mutilates and humiliates. Its nature is brutal and vicious; it defies both description and imagination.