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Wayne Madsen: Congo has fallen prey to a lot of people that want to loot its natural resources

Victims of unspeakable savagery tell their stories, but few have hopes of justice. CNN's Tim Lister reports

The United Nations says Congo has the worst sexual violence in the world. For years, rape survivors were shamed into silence, while the government denied the epidemic. Now people are speaking out.

The Congolese army says that Rwanda is deeply involved in the recent fighting in DR Congo. Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege investigates the claim. She meets a prisoner of the Congolese, who say he is a former Rwandan soldier. He is accused of being a spy for his country, and paraded as alleged proof of Rwandas involvement in the recent fighting.

As the UN agrees to deploys more forces to halt the DR Congo conflict, Laurent Nkunda, the rebel chief, acknowledges partial responsibility for the upheaval in an interview to Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege at a secret location in eastern Congo. But insisting that there is "no life, no economy, no administration, no justice", he says "you cannot destroy what is not there".

Part 1 Part2 Riz Khan speaks with Eve Ensler, the author of The Vagina Monologues, who has spent a lot of time in Congo. She has been speaking and writing about her experiences, and her reports are chilling.

Shashank Bengali: The threat of violence is ever-present in Congo

Almost 250,000 people have fled their homes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where mainly Tutsi fighters are battling government forces, to live in squalid refugee camps Al Jazeera's Rory Challands reports on the tragedies of the conflict in the country's east.

Efforts are continuing to resolve the conflict in the east of the DR Congo but people displaced by fighitng go without food and medicine

Congolese civilians besiege the UN compound at Goma and attack UN vehicles in the surrounding area while rebel forces advance through the region.

Fine Arts Academy students in the DR Congo capital Kinshasa have found another easy way to finance their studies and other daily expenses by selling their works.