Sunday, December 21, 2008

DR CONGO - MATERNAL HEALTHCARE


A project on the state of maternal health care for UNICEF in eastern Congo led to this image...

A woman, who lost her husband when they were forced to flee Sake earlier this year, gives birth, in a health center in Goma on December 14th, 2008.

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Monday, December 15, 2008

DR CONGO - UNICEF


"A group of children, displaced by recent fighting, play with condoms on a hill overlooking Kibati camp, near the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 25th November, 2008."

A photo taken while on assignment with UNICEF in Goma - for more of these images please click here:

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/drcongo_46828.html

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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

MAPIMA


Goma, DR Congo
Mapima, a sixth month old orphaned chimpanzee was rescued from a Congolese Govenrment soldier six weeks ago. She is photographed with her full time carer, Foster, in the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 18th November, 2008.

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

DR CONGO - GOMA


A Congolese Government soldier walks on the road towards Sake holding his daughters hand, near the provinicial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 4th November, 2008.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

DR CONGO - GOMA

A CONGO TRAJEDY



After photographing this sequence last Sunday in Goma, the BBC broadcast Uwimana's story and the story went online. To see a full edit click below
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/08/africa_tragedy_in_dr_congo/html

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Thursday, November 06, 2008

DR CONGO - GOMA


A woman trys to breast feed her two young twins who are suffering from malnutrition at Matumaini therapeutic feeding center run by Catholic nuns which has seen 96 new arrivals since the fighting in Rutshuru 70kms from the provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on 03 November 2008.

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Friday, October 31, 2008

DR CONGO

While all eyes are on Goma, the situation in North Eastern Congo also remains volatile with LRA activity continuing...for a full
copy of the article go to
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2008/1018/1224233217086.html

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