Incidents occurred inside victims’ homes, in detention centres, in fields or in other isolated locations. Most of the cases perpetrated by the national police were documented in Kasai and Kasai Central Provinces, and over half of them affected minors. State actors accounted for the remaining cases, 239 of which were attributed to the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 76 to the Congolese National Police and 38 to other State actors. The majority (700) were attributed to non-State armed groups. Of these cases, 177 dated back to previous years. In 2020, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) documented 1,053 cases of conflict-related sexual violence, affecting 675 women, 370 girls, 3 men and 5 boys. Conflict-related sexual violence remained widespread in the provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri and Tanganyika. Insecurity increased in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, against the backdrop of heightened political tensions within the ruling coalition, culminating in its dissolution by the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Félix Antoine Tshilombo Tshisekedi, in December.
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