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Democratic Republic of the Congo. May, 2016. A young goatherd takes a rest in front of Mount Mikeno, a volcano located inside Virunga National Park.
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NEXUS III
I have worked in Central Africa since 2012. While living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R.C.) for several years, I covered a variety of stories related to the ongoing fighting where, since the 1990’s, over 6 million people have died from causes connected to war. Home of the world’s deadliest conflict since World War II, the eastern D.R.C. is an incredibly complicated and dynamic environment, where more than 150 militias operate just in the tiny eastern province of North Kivu alone, where I was based ...