mercoledì 15 settembre 2010

RITRATTI DAL CONGO

Nella Repubblica Semocratica del Congo la lotta continua tra eserciti ribelli, tribù fra loro ostili, esercito congolese e forze ONU. Il fotografo della Reuteurs Finbarr O'Reilly ha attraversato quell’area eiportandone questa incredibile reportage.

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Ano Mboligikpelani, 12, holds her sister, Honrine Ngbadulezele, 2, in the village of Bangadi in northeastern Congo, February 19, 2009. Thousands of Congolese have fled their villages since December as Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebels roaming the bush carry out massacres that have killed some 900 civilians in northeastern Congo during the past two months. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly)

clip_image002A Congolese man pans for gold on a riverside at Iga Barriere, 25 kms (15 miles) from Bunia, in the resource-rich Ituri region of eastern Congo, February 16, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image003A woman displaced by violence returns from collecting firewood at a camp near Minova in eastern Congo, February 12, 2009. Reports are trickling in from the Congolese bush as people reach larger towns with stories of the killings of civilians by FDLR rebels, who are being hunted down by a coalition of Rwandan and Congolese forces. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image004A displaced woman lies in a tent with her child at a makeshift camp in Kibati near Goma in eastern Congo February 13, 2009. Congo's military said more than 40 Rwandan Hutu rebels had died in an air raid, as a 3-week-old joint Congolese-Rwandan offensive sparked rebel reprisals which a rights group said had killed 100 villagers. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image005A fighter from the FDLR rebel group, which is being hunted by the Rwandan and Congolese armies, stands guard deep in the bush of eastern Congo, February 6, 2009. Rwandan Hutu rebels are melting into the forests of eastern Congo before advancing Rwandan and Congolese forces, in a sign the surprise joint offensive has little chance of quashing militia groups at the heart of 15 years of conflict. Picture taken February 6, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image006A woman who has recently undergone surgery sits at the general hospital at Dungu in northeastern Congo, February 17, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image007Children walk along a road above a camp for people displaced by violence near Minova in eastern Congo, February 12, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image008Internally displaced people gather at a market in the middle of a makeshift camp near Goma in eastern Congo February 11, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image009A woman stands outside her hut deep in the bush of eastern Congo February 6, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image010A South African United Nations peacekeeper secures the landing site for a U.N. helicopter at the village of Pinga in eastern Congo, February 7, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image011Sisters displaced by war hold hands in front of a makeshift hut at Bulengo camp just outside Goma in eastern Congo, February 26, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image012A Congolese girl prays during Sunday Mass in the village of Mweso in eastern Congo, February 8, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image013Money changer Kwami Longange poses for a portrait on a streetcorner in Goma in eastern Congo, February 9, 2009. Longange, nicknamed "le Bon" - the Good - is a Sappeur, the local name for a dandy dresser. He has some 200 different matching outfits that he wears to work as a money changer and musician. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image014Jean-Pierre Kalikunshe (L), 10, comforts his friend Espoir Kangeshe, 6, both of whom have had surgery to correct leg deformities, at the Heal Africa hospital in Goma, February 10, 2009. Kalikunshe and Kangeshe are among some 70 children looked after by Stand Proud, a charity that assists children suffering from polio and other leg defects in war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo, where 15 years of war has devastated public health services. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image015Beatrice Mapendo, 22, who fled after a massacre in the town of Kiwanja last November, stands at Kibati camp near Goma in eastern Congo, February 9, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image016A Congolese woman sells bananas in Goma in eastern Congo, February 9, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image017A man plays an electric guitar in the village of Pinga, a village with no electricity, in eastern Congo, February 7, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image018Fourteen-month-old Yabila Kubemboli, who is malnourished after his mother fled attacks on her village by Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, awaits treatment at the hospital in the village of Dungu in northeastern Congo, February 20, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image019A Congolese girl displaced by fighting carries firewood at a camp near Goma in eastern Congo, February 9, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly)

clip_image020A Red Cross worker covers the the body of Dieudonne Kulimbo who was shot and killed in the bush near Dungu in northeastern Congo, February 17, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image021A woman walks home carrying an umbrella near Minova in eastern Congo, February 12, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image022Villagers who have formed a local self defense force move during a training session in the village of Bangadi in northeastern Congo February 18, 2009. In the face of attacks and massacres by Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, who have slaughtered some 900 Congolese civilians since December, villagers in Bangadi have formed a self-defense force with locally made weapons and have twice repelled LRA attacks in recent months. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image023Lea Mbikaz, 32, who wears a traditional Congolese hair style, poses for a portrait in the village of Bangadi in northeastern Congo, February 18, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image024Gold miners form a human chain while digging an open pit at the Chudja mine in the Kilomoto concession near the village of Kobu, 100 km (62 miles) from Bunia in north-eastern Congo, February 23, 2009. Civil conflict in Congo has been driven for more than a decade by the violent struggle for control over the country's vast natural resources, including gold, diamonds and timber, most of which is exploited using hard manual labour. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image025Gold miners pass mud along a human chain in an open pit at the Chudja mine in the Kilomoto concession near the village of Kobu in north-eastern Congo, February 23, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image026War-displaced mother Marie Nako, 20, stands outside the hospital in the village of Dungu where her malnourished child is being treated in northeastern Congo, February 20, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image027A woman who fled attacks by Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels stands outside a makeshift shelter at Ngalima in northeastern Congo February 21, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image028A war-displaced boy wears an improvised sun hat made from wood and flip-flops at Ngalima in northeastern Congo February 21, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image029A man displaced by war is reflected in a mirror as he gets a haircut at Bulengo camp just outside Goma in eastern Congo, February 26, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image030War-displaced Mizelede mourns at the funeral of her grandfather, Leon Biliyo, 60, who died from malaria in Ngalima in northeastern Congo February 21, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image031Congolese troops patrol through the village of Bangadi in northeastern Congo, February 19, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image032A member of a local self-defense force poses for a portrait in the village of Bangadi in northeastern Congo, February 18, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image033War-orphan Faustin Mugisa, 8, who has machete scars on his head and body, stands at the Kizito orphanage in Bunia in northeastern Congo February 24, 2009. Mugisa was left for dead in a pile of corpses when ethnic Lendu militiamen hacked to death his mother and seven siblings in 2003. Mugisa's father discovered him alive and took him to the bush to recover, but his father was later hacked to death by the same militia group. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image034A Congolese fighter from the pro-government Mai-Mai militia looks through a window in the village of Kalenge near the front line in eastern Congo, February 4, 2009. Rwandan and Congolese forces are hunting down thousands of Hutu extremist rebels in the wilds of eastern Congo in an operation intended to address the root cause of 15 years of conflict in Congo. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image035A war-orphaned child sits in a cardboard box at the Kizito orphanage in Bunia in northeastern Congo February 24, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image036Men displaced by war play soccer at Bulengo camp just outside Goma in eastern Congo, February 26, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image037A girl displaced by violence wears a traditional Congolese hair style while standing near government soldiers in the village of Bangadi in northeastern Congo February 18, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

clip_image038A war-orphaned child looks through a window at the Kizito orphanage in Bunia in northeastern Congo February 24, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

More links and information
DR Congo outsources its military - BBC News 2/27
The Invisible War - NYTimes.com 2/21
Conflict in Congo, refugees on the move - The Big Picture, 11/03/08
Congo's crisis worsens - The Big Picture, 11/21/08
DR Congo - NYTimes Topics page
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