More than 20 Congolese women have accused aid workers of sexual abuse in new claims that include rape and unwanted pregnancies, with United Nations investigators uncovering similar allegations of workers exploiting vulnerable women.
Fourteen of the 22 women in Butembo said the men identified themselves as workers with the World Health Organization .
The claims come as donors pressure aid groups to do more to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse while assisting the world's most vulnerable, and follow a joint investigation by reporters last year in which 51 women in the nearby city of Beni made similar allegations. Fourteen of the 22 women in Butembo - an aid hub during the Ebola outbreak - said the men identified themselves as workers with the World Health Organization , one of the lead agencies in the crisis which killed 2,200 people between 2018 and 2020.
One of those women died after a botched abortion as she tried to conceal the pregnancy from her husband and children, her sister said.
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