DR Congo: ADF rebel hostages reunite with families | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

Fifty-seven former hostages of a rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, some young women used as sex slaves, were reunited with their families Saturday, AFP correspondents saw. They were freed last weekend after a large-scale Congolese-Ugandan military operation allowed them to escape the Allied Democratic Forces , one of dozens of armed groups…

They were freed last weekend after a large-scale Congolese-Ugandan military operation allowed them to escape the Allied Democratic Forces , one of dozens of armed groups in the volatile region. “Kavira” — not her real name — just 15, said the ADF kidnapped 25 people in her village of Kikingi, around 70 kilometres from Beni, in August last year.“I was raped every day by a man they chose for me as a husband. It was that or death.”

A grateful and emotional Jeff Manyama, whose 22-year-old daughter was also seized in the hospital raid, told AFP he was “living in despair, the mother killed, the child taken away”.

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