DRC: Sexual abuse a ‘cancer’

Widespread rape and a culture of impunity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are undermining the country’s progress, Jan Egeland, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, has told the UN Security Council. “Sexual abuse has become a cancer in Congolese society that seems to be out of control,” Egeland said as he recounted his recent trip to the DRC, where, he said, nearly all women he spoke to had been raped.