Women and children have been raped and subjected to other abuses during a mass expulsion of migrant workers from Angola to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a doctor, officials, and the United Nations say.
Angola has deported thousands of workers in recent months, according to UN figures, echoing previous purges over the past 12 years, during which abuses also occurred, according to human rights groups and the UN. “Girls and women are arrested wherever they are, without the necessary needs, detained, and then separated from their children and husbands, subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, sometimes raped,” a preliminary report said.
Mass deportations from Angola to the DRC happen every few years. The largest, in 2018, led to the expulsion of 330,000 workers. Over the course of two months in 2010, the UN estimated that more than 650 people had suffered sexual violence during expulsions from Angola.
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