have done the democratic republic of congo the central african republic and mali or countries torn by years of conflict now when it comes to rape in conflicts impunity is still the norm the perpetrators of those who carry out and direct violence usually escape justice or even sanction i'm now joined by dr chu say to me a big issue he's an author and specialist on gender based violence and she's based at the university of stanford in the united states while come to you dr what perpetrates is or other i want to begin by asking you that we we've often observed sexual violence being used as as a weapon of war as a tactic in war in conflict zones in africa what in what ways do we see this being manifested. there you undefined sexual violence in conflicts as rape forced marriage forced prostitution forced abortion forced air and i think . and any type of social violence of comparing comparable gravity looking for example out there on the conflict i think the definition that came out of the u.n. tribunal prosecuting genocide in rwanda well that sexual violence doesn't even have to include to

build a classical music school for adults and children in the democratic republic of congo. he's tough and demanding conduct armande says this is how he gets the best from his students. is that. you see if you don't. see what i'm actually a pilot but music is my passion. it's true i don't have academic training but passion is what helps us get to know instruments and to learn to play. and everyone here shares that same passion for classical music barely anyone has professional training instead they all train right here together in this orchestra . i'm happy here and i have a lot of friends. to be modest started learning the violin at the age of twelve and right from the start she was determined to join an orchestra. duffin lives in this district music she says has helped her enormously. music music has changed me classical music has something very calming about it so much this has helped me to reflect and react in my everyday environment may with my friends and others. having me push it to consume. family lives in a modest house her father sings in a choir and was supportive

they are now renamed the democratic republic of congo lay in ruins but was still full of material temptations in less than a year renewed tensions saw the political situation deteriorate. accuse the tonya of enriching themselves from the country's resources and made ominous threats toward the tutsis living in the d.r. see. james cover a return to rwanda where the final battles were being fought in early one nine hundred ninety eight in the lake kivu region between rwanda and the d.r. c. former asian o.c. there and armed hutu groups conducted renewed attacks on the tutsis now living there. they were led by general paul row aka b.j. . in the. summer one soldiers who had supported can be returned to their country to fight us from their. so that's why we began secretly sending our soldiers into. about fifty a week also when they left at night and reach rwanda while it was still dark. he said if you go. through as they grew a number the new government noticed them and the fighting intensified my keep. if you see i put it down. i. when it is whoops. see good this is. not at all sure the law shortly

environmental conservation is a constant challenge in the democratic republic of congo. the park rangers face a moral dilemma should they protect people. or nature. to my sister if you don't go on the slopes of the wrongs volcanoes including in rwanda and uganda there are only eight hundred eighty mountain gorillas left and they need protection you guessed it a politician says they are threatened with extinction just eight hundred eighty mountain gorillas on our huge continent and only three countries congo uganda and rwanda to sit in on a week down for peace studied little or no gun. a little under. that based on democracy population growth is threatening the grill is natural habitat. in. the knesset people here need fertile farmland and the park is the only place where they can find it get it back. in fact that's why they destroy the gorillas habitat they need fertile farmland. in fifteen. to silverback has become a symbol of the very room going to asheville parks struggle for survival. but the face also takes a heavy toll on the families of the one hundred fifty range

neighboring democratic republic of congo and only now twenty five years later some of them finally returning to their homeland. daybreak in eastern congo a region that's been wracked for over twenty years by fighting between rival rebel groups the un peacekeeping mission in the democratic republic of congo has so far failed to bring an end to the violence the most it's managed to do is encourage a few individual fighters to lay down their arms. and so now this of humanity was a member of or a london group of armed rebels operating in eastern congo he felt trapped until he found out that the un could help him leave and return to the country of his parents first he undergoes a fair and medical examination. the young man knows little about rwanda he was born in d.r. see his parents fled their after the rwandan genocide along with hundreds of thousands of hutus who feared reprisals. came here from a long way away now i'm safe with the u.n. and i think they'll help me i have a better future now. some more and another former rebels will be taken over the border to rwanda later today the government