1100 females raped every day in Congo

Over 1100 women and girls are raped every day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, indicating that the level of sexual violence is 26 times higher than previous estimates, according to a new study.
The study, published on Tuesday in The American Journal of Public Health, said that more than 400,000 women and girls, aged between 15 and 49, were raped in the war-torn Central African country during a 12-month period in 2006 and 2007, AFP reported.