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Ann Curry, newscaster for NBC's Today, continues to amass a weighty resume of wartorn datelines. Her last two African trips were to Darfur. Now she files for NBC's In Depth from Goma in Congo, where the death toll from the civil war stands at 5.5m. Curry introduced us to an 18-year-old woman in Goma's hospital undergoing internal surgery from the wounds she suffered two years ago under continuous gang rape by soldiers: "For two days they raped her. There were so many men, too many to count." After hospital she will go to a job training center with 150 other women: "Many cannot go home, not only because of the war but because they are rejected by their husbands as rape carries such stigma. After ten years of war here in eastern Congo, lawlessness and rape are still rampant. In the last year alone, tens of thousands of women have been raped in this province."
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