DR Congo: Humans Versus Animals in a Conflict Zone

Virunga National Park is in an unstable part the country where competition for land is fierce as more than three million people live close to its borders.

Gorilla.

Children shell their family's monthly 10kg-ration of beans.

Soldiers of the Congolese national army at a military base.

  • Congo-Kinshasa:   Humans Versus Animals in a Conflict Zone

    UNIRIN, 4 August 2010

    On a Friday in Goma central prison in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, 25 dirty, barefoot men accused of illegal fishing in Lake Edward are gathered before three judges,… Read more »

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