William Hague and Angelina Jolie's mission impossible: warzone rape is truly rife in the Congo She fled the fighting between the M23 rebel group and the Congolese army several months ago. Now a muddy scrap of ground and rudimentary shelter is what she calls home. Life in a camp like Lac Vert is always going to be desperate. But what makes Josephine's plight so heartbreaking is that what should be a place of refuge is, despite the heroic and valiant efforts of the charity workers, anything but. Women in these kind of camps live in constant fear of being raped when they go out to collect food or firewood for cooking. But she was raped inside a camp, while she was pregnant with Gladys, the little baby she's holding. She says that since she's been violated her husband won't touch her because he's disgusted by her. So she's on her own: scared, weary and hungry. I asked her how she found the strength to carry on, and she replied that she had to fight to survive for the sake of her children, but that if she saw the two men who attacked her she would kill them. We heard countless stories like Josephine's. But in the end it was a picture which proved the most powerful indictment of an atrocity which, according to the foreign secretary, "shames" the world. We'd been invited to a meeting of activists. One of them handed Mr Hague and Ms Jolie a photo of a five year-old girl. She had, they said, been raped by a government soldier right next to a police station. There's been sniping in the papers about why the Foreign Secretary has made the visit, and whether jetting round the Congo with a Hollywood star is little more than a vanity project. But, Ms Jolie, a UN special envoy, told me on Channel 4 News, what befell that five year-old was the reason for coming here. However, there is understandable scepticism about what the UK Government can realistically do, still less whether the Foreign Secretary and his Hollywood friend can get anywhere near their goal of ending warzone rape. The Foreign Office is funding local health and education projects in the Congo. That should help some women who are cast out of their villages and estranged from their families after being raped. But what may prove more significant is the 70-strong team of legal and medical experts who are being sent to countries like the Congo to offer victims help and start to gather evidence to use in prosecutions. Some of the women are hopeful that justice may be done. They're encouraged by the recent transfer of Bosco Ntaganda, the M23 rebel leader accused of a litany of crimes, including rape, to the International Criminal Court. But there's no denying the challenges are huge. UN estimates suggest 200,000 women have been raped since 1998 in the Congo. And that's likely to be a massive under-estimate. The prospect of one man facing justice is symbolically hugely important. But getting the evidence against thousands of others will be a long and difficult, if not impossible, process. Josephine told me she would be eager to present her evidence in court - a huge step in itself given the way rape victims in Africa are seen as somehow having brought shame upon themselves. But when I asked her if she could identify the men who'd attacked her, she said she wouldn't be able to recognise them. Many of the rapists - whether rebel or government forces - are in army uniform, making identification harder. That's no reason not to try, though. At the end of the trip, Mr Hague met the Congolese president Joseph Kabila. The Foreign Secretary drew on his first-hand experiences to press him on the need to tackle the "monstrosity" of warzone rape. Yet there was no sense after the meeting that the president had any grasp of the scale of the problem, or the growing sense of political outrage. He is governing a vast country riven by factions and fighting. And despite its massive mineral wealth, its people are ground down by years of poverty. Against that backdrop, sexual violence has become almost endemic, accepted with a weary resignation. Hillary Clinton made warzone rape a key focus of the American presidency in 2009. Ms Jolie has campaigned for years on the subject herself, even coming to the Congo just over a decade ago. Will Mr Hague have any more success this time? I hope so for the sake of Josephine, and the five year-old in the photo, who deserves a future safe in the knowledge that her attacker has been justly punished. But I have a horrible feeling that I'll return to the Congo to find the same chaos, the same problems, and the same despair.