Congo Conflict

• Protegee, carrying her sibling on her back, cries as she looks for her parents through the village of Kiwanja, 56 miles north of Goma, eastern Congo, Nov. 6, 2008. Protegee was reunited with her mother and they elected to remain in Kiwanja fearing continued fighting. UNICEF says hundreds of children have been separated from their families since fighting flared in eastern Congo in August, and that more than 1,600 children in the province were seeking their parents last week.
  
  
  

  Jerome Delay, AP

• A Conglese government soldier mans a checkpoint at the front line, Nov. 10, 2008 near Kibati just north of Goma in eastern Congo.
  
  
  

  Karel Prinsloo, AP

• A bleeding Congolese man, cuffed by Congolese government troops (FARDC), is taken away with 25 others by FARDC soldiers at the Kibati checkpoint north of Goma, eastern Congo, Nov. 23, 2008. Government forces stopped a UN convoy they claim was infiltrated by CDNP rebels into Goma, and took them in custody. UN officials say they were transporting 10 militiamen who had surrendered to the UN demobilization program.
  
  
  

  Jerome Delay, AP

• A child runs past a U.N. helicopter that landed near a makeshift displaced persons camp outside the MONUC base in Kiwanja, 56 miles north of Goma, eastern Congo, Nov. 7, 2008.
  
  
  

  Karel Prinsloo, AP

• Congolese women demonstrate in Goma, eastern Congo, Nov. 14, 2008, against war-related violence in northern Kivu province. About 300 women responded to the demonstration called by local women's group NGO's. Signs read: "Do you want us to also take weapons?" and "we are crying for our children killed in Rutchuru."
  
  
  

  Jerome Delay, AP

• National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP) rebel leader Laurent Nkunda addresses civil servants following a public rally in Rutshuru, 43 miles north of Goma, eastern Congo, Nov. 22, 2008.
  
  
  

  Jerome Delay, AP

• A child carries water in a makeshift displaced persons camp outside the MONUC base in the village of Kiwanja, 90 kms north of Goma, eastern Congo, Nov. 7, 2008. Fighting resumed between rebels and Congolese forces on the outskirts of Goma.
  
  
  

  Jerome Delay, AP

• Displaced Congolese people who sought refuge at the Rugari MONUC base for the night are seen aboard a minibus as they attempt to cross the front line to reach Goma, in Rugari, 22 miles north of Goma, eastern Congo, Nov. 8, 2008. Fighting raged anew in Congo between the army and rebels outside Goma, as thousands of people fled toward the relative safety of the city.
  
  
  

  Jerome Delay, AP

• Under the eye of Congolese police and army, a worker carries a bag of seized food aid from a warehouse to a truck in Goma, eastern Congo, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008. Goma mayor Roger Rachidyt launched the operation to raid warehouses packed with siphoned food aid destined for internally displaced people from the World Food Program and other humanitarian organizations.
  
  
  

  Jerome Delay, AP

• Two youths carry water on their heads in pouring rain, Nov. 13, 2008 in the outskirts of Goma in eastern Congo. Years of sporadic violence in eastern Congo intensified in August, and fighting between the army and fighters loyal to rebel leader Laurent Nkunda has displaced at least 250,000 people since then despite the presence of the largest U.N. peacekeeping force in the world.
  
  
  

  Karel Prinsloo, AP