EP97: Rwandan Soldiers Arrested For Using Rape As Punishment For Women Breaching COVID-19 Lockdown - a podcast by Nana Kwame

Several Rwandan soldiers have been arrested after residents of a slum in the country's  capital, Kigali, raised alarms that they raped women as they enforced a  nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

According to the residents  of Nyarutarama,  the soldiers will beat up male residents and steal from them.

One  of the victims told journalists that on 26 March an armed soldier  forcefully entered her home and beat up her husband, when she tried  intervene the soldier raped her in front of the husband.

The Wahaala Boys look at how the COVID-19 lockdown is affecting people in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda and Africa as awhole.

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