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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 19h

You can watch the full documentary on YouTube.

Cr: @vice
Source: YT / The Disturbing Use of R-pe in congo😥
Disclaimer: The clips/video used in this reel don’t belong to me, they solely belong to the owner. The clips/video used in this reel are used for educational purposes only. Thank you🇨🇩

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 20h

TW: mention of r-pe and graphic detailed description.

In Congo, women are being mass r-ped and m-rdered, by Rwandan te3ro3ists. Most are barely surviving, with little to no access to healthcare. Despite the constant threat of being attacked again, women are still forced to work in the fields.

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 20h

That smile shows the strength and joy of a child, even in difficult times.
Every day, children like her dream of going to school, having enough to eat and living in peace.
With a small gesture, we can change their lives.
Let's help them keep that beautiful smile🇨🇩

Don't ignore the suffering of Congolese children 💔😭. Together we can end the suffering of the innocent lives.
Donations to support this life saving cause are highly welcomed 🙏🙏🇨🇩🇨🇩

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 20h

If we do not act today, this population will continue to lose lives.

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 20h

Children are again deprived of school, shelter and hope.

We are calling for solidarity.

Your contribution, no matter how small, can make it possible to rebuild classrooms, offer school kits or temporary shelters to disaster families.

Together, let’s give hope to Masisi’s children.

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 20h

In Sake, 30 km west of Goma, the rains caused incalculable loss and damage. Families have lost everything.

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 20h

This morning, on the way to Lutobogo in the territory of Masisi to follow the activities of our “Education for All” program, a torrential rain fell on us. Here, doing humanitarian action means facing insecurity, bad weather and impassable roads every day.

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 5d

The wore on Congo’s minerals

We had a pleasure to welcome sister popi_sibiya who stayed in the camps for 3 days and was able to experience what realities are on the ground!

#congo #freecongo #minerals

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 5d

❤️
#enfant #paix #amour #espoir

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 5d

Guess what mineral it is 🇨🇩

We have a land rich in minerals, a prosperous one that should reassure us of a normal and peaceful life... But it is the opposite of what we get out of it. Here is what we have as wealth, a wealth that costs lives to our people 💔

#congo #freecongo

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 5d

Are they meant to suffer alone — unseen, unheard?
We refuse to let their pain go unnoticed.
We will keep telling their stories until the world is forced to listen.
If you’re not uncomfortable, you’ve stopped feeling.
If you’re silent, you’re complicit.
We demand justice. We demand healing😪😭😭

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 5d

The stories of our sisters, mothers, daughters, and grandmothers in Congo are not just heartbreaking — they are horrifying.
Sexual violence. Displacement. Silence💔
And yet, the world barely whispers their names😭😭
Who is protecting them? Who is helping them carry the weight of this trauma?

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 5d

She’s only two weeks old born into conflict, sleeping under the open sky in Beni, DRC. Her mother fled violence with nothing. No shelter. No food. No safety. Just like thousands of others.
This child has done nothing wrong, yet she suffers the cost of war and greed.
🙏🏾 Please don’t look away. #Congo

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 7d

Please don't scroll stay and save us friends 💔💔🙏🙏

Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 9d

I often see children in poor health almost every day: malnutrition, infected wounds or questionable hygiene... This leads me to wonder about the mobilization of parents. Maybe to really protect children, we should start there, before any other action.

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 7d

Nothing is too little to help a suffering soul 😭😭💔💔🙏🙏🇨🇩🇨🇩

#freecongo

Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 9d

Ntoyo, then fotodu, even today it's Mbau.
We have the names of all our villages on repetitive lists of massacres
It hurts to have to put up with living under the rule of such incompetent 😭 leaders.
Very sad to see my mother's village bleeding again...
Please we call upon everyone's help friends 🙏🇨🇩

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 9d

I often see children in poor health almost every day: malnutrition, infected wounds or questionable hygiene... This leads me to wonder about the mobilization of parents. Maybe to really protect children, we should start there, before any other action.

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 9d

Congo needs us now.
The people of Congo are exhausted—especially the children, who are tired of running. They need our help, our voices, our actions.
Let’s stand with them. Let’s keep speaking about Congo, keep raising awareness, and demand peace.
Together, we can make a difference.

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sassmasterjam.bsky.social @sassmasterjam.bsky.social · 8d

There's a lot going on right now and we're all very upset, but this is also incredibly important.

We must stop investing in luxuries like iPhones.

It's easy to ignore it in America, surrounded by wealth, but people are suffering for our comfort.

Real children are really dying for our luxuries.

Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 9d

With the recent release of the IPhone 17, it’s vital that we stand in solidarity with the Congolese people suffering at the hands of manufacturing companies and armed militias forcing millions into enslavement and poverty for Western benefit. Never forget the Congo.

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 9d

Ntoyo, then fotodu, even today it's Mbau.
We have the names of all our villages on repetitive lists of massacres
It hurts to have to put up with living under the rule of such incompetent 😭 leaders.
Very sad to see my mother's village bleeding again...
Please we call upon everyone's help friends 🙏🇨🇩

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 9d

Caring for children means protecting their future.
What do you think? I'm waiting for your opinions in the comments.

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 9d

I often see children in poor health almost every day: malnutrition, infected wounds or questionable hygiene... This leads me to wonder about the mobilization of parents. Maybe to really protect children, we should start there, before any other action.

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 9d

With the recent release of the IPhone 17, it’s vital that we stand in solidarity with the Congolese people suffering at the hands of manufacturing companies and armed militias forcing millions into enslavement and poverty for Western benefit. Never forget the Congo.

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 9d

Congo needs us now.
The people of Congo are exhausted—especially the children, who are tired of running. They need our help, our voices, our actions.
Let’s stand with them. Let’s keep speaking about Congo, keep raising awareness, and demand peace.
Together, we can make a difference.

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 9d

An Other Day, An Other Displacement.
This is not a story from the past. It’s happening today. As the conflict in Congo intensifies, women and children are the ones paying the heaviest price. Driven from their homes, they are left with nothing but fear and uncertainty.

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Focus Congo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 @focuscongo.bsky.social · 19d

Your silence makes you accomplices

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