Doctor Denis Mukwege, Nobel Peace Prize 2018, is the subject of serious threats that could cost him his life. Each generation sees the emergence of some exceptional women or men who manage to address the whole world with a simple idea: to make it better. Denis Mukwege is one of them.
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In the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the Great Lakes region, on the border with Rwanda, corruption, trafficking of all kinds, tribal wars and child prostitution have reigned for decades. Bands and rival militias kill each other there to seize the underground mining squares from which gold and rare metals are extracted, such as coltan, which has become essential for the manufacture of portable capacitors. Not to mention the ravages of the Ebola virus which decimated the population. Hell on earth. Twenty years ago, in his hometown, Bukavu, the future Nobel Prize winner created from scratch a hospital to treat women victims of rape and mutilation
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