Reporting Sexual Violence
By state bodies or conflict actors that particularly targets IDPs and refugees, aid, health workers or
educators or students among others.
Africa
Central African Republic
09 April 2022: In Bangui city, an unspecified number of women were raped by Russian mercenaries
of the Wagner Security Group after they forcefully entered the gendarmerie infirmary of the Henri
Izamo Military Camp, raping the women in the maternity ward, including some who had just given
birth. Soldiers stationed inside the camp failed to protect them. Source: HumAngle
10 April 2022: In Bangui city, two women were sexually abused by armed Russian mercenaries of
the Wagner Security Group seemingly under the influence of alcohol who had forcefully entered the
gendarmerie infirmary of the Henri Izamo Military Camp. They attempted to sexually abuse the two
women who had just given birth, in the presence of a nurse and a nurse aide. The perpetrators then
attempted to rape the nurse, after she told them to leave the patients alone. The nurse managed to
escape and bring help from the Chief of the Centre, also a gendarme. The mercenaries pretended
to leave, only to return by breaking through a window at the back of the facility, where they raped
the nurse aide. Source: HumAngle
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Around 07 April 2022: In Beni city and territory, North Kivu province, a woman was assaulted and
ultimately killed by unidentified armed men during an attempted rape. Source: ACLED1
17 April 2022: In Bugusa village, Rutshuru territory, North Kivu province, a pregnant woman was
raped by M23 (March 23 Movement) rebels. Source: ACLED
19 April 2022: In Dyambu village, Djugu territory, Ituri province, a woman was raped by CODECOARDPC (Army of Revolutionaries for the Defense of the Congolese People) fighters after attacking
civilians on their farms. Source: ACLED
Malawi
Around 21 April 2022: Near Karonga township, Karonga district, Northern region, a 13-year-old
migrant girl was sexually abused by a police officer after the group of migrants she was travelling
with were arrested. The police officer was arrested. Source: ACLED
