Sam Mednick

A 28-year-old mother of four who was gang-raped by armed men while collecting firewood, poses for a photo in Juba displacement camp, South Sudan, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Can technology help more survivors of sexual assault in South Sudan?

March 22, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

Technology isn鈥檛 widely used by aid groups focused on gender-based violence in South Sudan. Some say that, based on survivors鈥� feedback, the ideal app would allow people to get help...

FILE – Residents flee fighting between M23 rebels and Congolese forces near Kibumba, some 20 kms ( 12 miles) North of Goma, Democratic republic of Congo, on Oct. 29, 2022. The accounts are haunting. Abductions, torture, rapes. Scores of civilians including women and children have been killed by the M23 rebels in eastern Congo, according to a U.N. report expected to be published this week. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

Abduction, torture, rape: Conflict in Congo worsens, says UN

December 27, 2022 at 7:12 a.m.

The accounts are haunting. Abductions, torture, rapes. According to a U.N. report by a panel of experts, scores of civilians including women and children have been killed by the M23...

A resident wounded after a Russian attack lies inside an ambulance before being taken to a hospital in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Russia rains missiles on recaptured Ukrainian city

November 25, 2022 at 7:13 a.m.

Natalia Kristenko’s dead body lay covered in a blanket in the doorway of her apartment building for hours overnight. City workers were at first too overwhelmed to retrieve her as...

Burkina Faso mutinous soldiers guard the ...

Burkina Faso鈥檚 President Christian Kabore is held by mutinous soldiers

January 24, 2022 at 9:16 a.m.

Burkina Faso’s President Roch Marc Christian Kabore is being held by mutinous soldiers, two of the rebellious soldiers told The Associated Press by phone early Monday. They did not say...

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Abduction, torture, rape: Conflict in Congo worsens, says UN

Russia rains missiles on recaptured Ukrainian city

Burkina Faso鈥檚 President Christian Kabore is held by mutinous soldiers