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IRIN writer wins award for DRC report

Women walk along the high mountain passes of Masisi Town, North Kivu, DRC. Nicholai Lidow/IRIN
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    Congolese journalist and IRIN contributor Eddy Isango has won an award for a report about the sexual abuse of Congolese women deported from Angola. Isango, based in Kinshasa, won the prize for the best piece of reportage on a health issue in the inaugural Journalism for Development awards, organised by the Democratic Republic of Congo office of the UN's Development Programme (UNDP).

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