MORE THAN 100,000 CHILDREN HAVE BEEN DISPLACED BY THE LATEST ESCALATION IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, UNICEF SAID ON SUNDAY, WARNING THE NUMBERS ARE EXPECTED TO RISE AS VIOLENCE SPREADS.(PHOTO).

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 More than 100,000 children have been displaced by the latest escalation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, UNICEF said on Sunday, warning the numbers are expected to rise as violence spreads. Since Dec. 1, intense fighting has uprooted more than 500,000 people, with children accounting for over 100,000 of those displaced in South Kivu alone, the UN agency said in a statement released Sunday. It said since Dec. 2, hundreds have been killed in the fighting, and children have been among the victims, with four students killed, six injured, and at least seven schools attacked or damaged. The rapid escalation has forced hundreds of thousands of children and families to flee within Congo and into neighboring Burundi and Rwanda, it added. Many people fleeing the violence have crossed into Burundi, with over 50,000 new arrivals reported between Dec. 6 and 11, nearly half of them children, UNICEF said, adding that the numbers are expected to rise as more displaced are identified. “Chi...

A 30 YEAR OLD MAN,ARRESTED FOR RAPING AND UPLOADING THE PICTURES ON THE INTERNET.

•Oluwakayode in handcuff after he was arrested               According to the Nigerian police,a suspect named Olaniyan Oluwakayode,whose pictured above,raped a girl in his apartment at Ifako area of Lagos.These Osun state indigene was arrested by the police and brought to the Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation,WAPA in handcuffs.The victims name was withheld for security reasons but she hails from Akwa Ibom state.She claimed Olaniyan raped her,snapped her pictures,despite pleas from his sister to desist from such barbaric act,saying Olaniyan was not her boyfriend as he claimed.Director of Child Development WAPA,Mrs Alaba Fadairo said the case would be charged to court as it was a case of raping and uploading the pictures on the internet.The case would not be swept under the carpet except the victim herself was opting out.The government would not give up.''You do not have to force a person to have your way.It has to be mutual consent.The most barbaric aspect is that it was done and it was aired.Where is the dignity of the woman?.It shows the person is callous and wicked and i think we should allow the arm of the law take its course so that the girl could feel justice has been served''.The victim said ''He has been asking me out for a long time.I was never his girlfriend,i have my own boyfriend.He raped me with pains,even his sister was crying and he snapped me immediately and his sister even said she will call his mother because even if she was the one they did that thing to,he would even over react''.The suspect said ''I was fighting with my girlfriend but they are accusing me of raping her.I never deny the fact that i snapped her picture when she was naked.We were fighting inside,but any other allegation levelled against me is a big lie.The only thing i did which i do not deny is that i snapped her naked picture''.

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