Strife-torn Congo Hunger, Rape and Violence
An average of 1,400 people have died every day in the Congo since 1998, due to civil war. Here, a malnourished orphan is cared for at a nutrition center run in conjunction with Medecins Sans Frontieres in Butsiri.
A boy with a life-threatening case of tetanus in Rutchuru, in the province of North Kivu.
A woman speaks about her rape to a health worker in Kanyabiyunga in the Congo. The woman alleges that she was raped by two members of the military while she was working in the fields.
Bunia Prison in the Congo, which houses mainly members of the national army who have mutinied or joined militias, is severely overcrowded.
A man walks on crutches in Rutchuru in the Congo.
A man with face wounds rests against a wall in Rutchuru, in the North Kivu province of the Congo.
Children wait in front of the locked gate of a Rutchuru hospital.
A doctor writes a boy's weight on his arm in a rural nutrition center where children displaced by war are cared for.
Men dig through the earth looking for gold at an abandoned industrial mine in Mongbwalu, Congo.
A boy sorts through rocks, looking for gold. Thousands of Congolese make a living as miners.
A man takes a break from shoveling for gold in a pool of water at a deserted mine. Gold and other mineral deposits, which are numerous in the volatile north-east of the country, have become a catalyst for much of the conflict in Congo.
Members of the UN peacekeeping force train the Congo's national army.
Many soldiers in the national army, the FARDC, are thought to have a dark past. They are thought to be responsible for burning and looting hundreds of villages.
This picture shows soldiers of the national army FARDC during a training exercise. While the FARDC mutinied against the UN peacekeeping last month, collaboration between the two has resumed.
Members of a Christian choir perform in a camp for war refugees in the town of Linzo.
A sick child is fed at a nutrition center in the city of Rutchuru.
