A severely malnourished infant hangs limp from her mother's back at a catholic mission feeding center in rebel-held Rutshuru, 70kms (50 miles) north of Goma in eastern Congo, in this November 13, 2008 file photo. (Finbarr O'Reilly/Files/Reuters)From Yahoo News/Reuters:
Finbarr O'Reilly, Reuters chief photographer for West and Central Africa, was born in Swansea, Wales in 1971 and started as an arts correspondent. He joined Reuters in 2001, turning to photography in 2005 and winning the World Press Photo Award for picture of the year in 2006. In the following story, he describes his latest reporting mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
By Finbarr O'Reilly
KIBATI, Congo (Reuters) - A Congolese refugee in a tattered baseball cap, worn clothes and blue flip-flops begged me for a cigarette at Kibati, a camp for 65,000 people displaced by fighting in eastern Congo.
I scolded him, saying smoking was bad for his health, as if anything could be worse for your health than living in this conflict-racked corner of Democratic Republic of Congo.
Machine gun fire erupted nearby and people dived for cover, ducking into rows of flimsy tents made from torn sheets of white plastic stretched over sticks.
"Mister, mister, come lie down in here," a voice called from one tent as bullets hummed nearby like an electrical current.
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My Comment: The war continues, making Congo's enduring conflict the deadliest since World War Two.
