DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Medecins Sans Frontiers doctors treat a child suffering from malaria at a village medical clinic in the south eastern province of Katanga. The region has been severely effected by fighting between government forces and Mai Mai militias. Over 1200 people die everyday in the RD Congo, largely due to preventable diseases such as malaria, malnutrition and tuberculosis, a direct consequence of the country's conflict and decades of kleptocratic dictatorship..Mukanga, Democratic Republic of Congo. 17/06/2006..Photo © J.B. Russell