Nigerian women to march against rape | World news | guardian.co.uk
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Women in Nigeria are planning to march in protest at what they say is a hidden epidemic of rape and sexual violence in Africa’s most populous country.
The issue has received rare public attention after the emergence of an online video in which a woman is apparently gang-raped and pleads with her assailants to kill her.
This followed another recent incident in which it was alleged that a young woman assigned to a community to perform volunteer service had been raped by a traditional ruler.
Local campaigners hope that a show of anger on the streets – possibly on 25 November, the International Day Against Violence Against Women – will force Nigeria’s leaders to end a conspiracy of silence.