... capital, in the interior of the province (Manga, 2005). Rwanda The UN estimates that between 250,000 and 500,000 women and girls were raped during the conflict and genocide in Rwanda in the ... brutal sexual violence at the hands of military and rebel forces. Rape is often accompanied by other forms of physical and nonphysical violence. In some instances, women and girls are abducted and ... conflict in eastern Congo has led to tens of thousands of women and girls suffering from sexual violence (Amnesty International, no date). Despite the signing of a peace agreement in 2002, sexual violence, ...