sarah jacobs
Sarah Jacobs is Save the Children's Africa specialist, working on issues of child protection, hunger, health and education. She joined the aid organisation in 2006 after six years as a journalist, writing for the Observer, the Telegraph, the Daily Mail and the BBC, among others.
Child rape on the rise in eastern Congo
Save the Children Africa specialist Sarah Jacobs travelled to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) earlier this month, as the aid organisation launched its emergency response to renewed fighting in North Kivu province. She reports on the sexual violence and trauma the conflict is inflicting on thousands of families. Rape is nothing new to Dr Claude Masumbuko. For the past five years he has been resident physician at the Heal Africa clinic, which specialises in sexual violence and sexually transmitted diseases. ...
