MARCUS BLEASDALE
Children play in the floodwaters of the Congo River in Rainy season. Villages are transformed and flooded in this period, leaving inhabitants living in boats for 4-5 months of the year. 2000.
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Opangi Molati, five, in Tchomia camp after being displaced by nearby fighting. Around 30,000 displaced people live in this area with limited supplies and virtually no international help. 2006.
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The Catholic mission near Kanyabayonga is sanctuary to many as clashes between CNDP rebels and government forces rage a few kilometers away. 2008.
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An early-morning religious service in the Gety displaced camp, just days before the historic 2006 elections. 2006.
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Ina Maluba, four, from Mabwe village, waits to be treated for malaria in a hospital operated by the aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). His mother looks after another child, who suffers from acute malnourishment. 2005.
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Sudanese displaced take refuge under a tree in Disa, Northern Darfur out of the heat of the day and out of view of the Antanov responsible for the bombing, there are estimated to be 2,000,000 displaced in Darfur who are trapped on the east, west and south by government troops and in the north by the desert wasteland which will certainly claim the lives of their livestock and weaker members of their family. 2004.
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Children at a center for street kids in Kinshasa. Many children are made homeless after being accused of being sorcerers when a family suffers bad luck and economic hardship. 2005.
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The funeral of ten-month-old Mapenzi Boloma who died from diarrhea and vomiting a few days after arriving in the Gety camp. She was one of eighteen people who died that day, just before the historic elections in Congo. 2006.
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The washing of the body at the burial of the eight-month-old Sakura Lisi, the daughter of a gold miner in Mongbwalu, northeastern Congo. 2004.
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Refugees on their journey to safety in Chad. Their villages were “ethnically cleansed” of ‘blacks’ by the Arab government. Government forces moved in after the bombing and killed thousands. Mass graves circle the villages. Bodies of young boys lie unburied to send a message to stem further uprising. 2004.
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A child gold miner in Watsa, northeastern Congo. Months before this child was forced to be a child soldier to gain control of the gold mine. 2004.
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