Hundreds of women systematically gang-raped by armed rebels in DRC

United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon is sending a senior aide to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after reports that approximately 200 women were raped during a four-day rebel assault of a town a few miles from a UN peacekeepers' base. Aid group IMC reported that nearly all of the women were gang-raped by between two and six armed men, while their children and husbands were forced to watch.