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Feeling forgotten, Ivory Coast rape survivors seek healing together

Three victims of sexual violence in Man on August 15, 2025. The 2011 post-election crisis killed around 3,000 people.[AFP]

Juliette Bie was at her sick mother's bedside when two men barged through the door of her home in western Ivory Coast and raped her during tumultuous political unrest in 2011.

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