Ituri, DRC in Pictures

The situation in the Ituri province in the north-eastern part of DRC, captured in pictures.

Submitted 4/12/2006 By Josie Views 7070 Comments 0 Updated 18/12/2006

Since the beginning of 2005, tens of thousands of civilians have been displaced by a resumption of fighting between warring factions in the Ituri region of the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Many of the displaced people have settled in two camps: Tche, which is located in the highlands, and Kakwa, which is on the shores of Lake Albert. Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontires (MSF) is running mobile clinics to provide basic medical services to the displaced. Some of the displaced have fled to the city of Bunia, where MSF has run the Bon March Hospital since 2003.

Photographer: Médecins Sans Frontières
Caption: This little girl (shown here playing with the anesthesiologist's cell phone) required an amputation.
Photographer: Médecins Sans Frontières
Caption: A patient ward inside Bon March Hospital.
Photographer: Médecins Sans Frontières

Caption: Since 2003, MSF teams have been conducting emergency medical activities in Ituri. An estimated 50,000 people have died and more than 500,000 have been displaced since 1999 as a result of fighting in Ituri, which has been under the direct or proxy control of neighboring Uganda since the beginning of the war. Fresh fighting in 2003 ended only when French troops intervened.
Photographer: Serge Pfister/Médecins Sans Frontières
Caption: Measles vaccination in Kawka camp
Photographer: Serge Pfister/Médecins Sans Frontières
Caption: Measles vaccination in Kawka camp.
Photographer: Serge Pfister/Médecins Sans Frontières