Mongbwalu, democratic Republic of Congo, October 2004
The funeral of an infant who died of Malaria. Her sister cries as she is
buried. One of the reasons for the conflict has been the struggle to control
the regions mineral wealth. The conflict has often taken the form of ethnic
strife, but many feel that these are tribal struggles formented by outsiders
that want to keep moving the mineral wealth across their borders. Large
international mining companies have pulled out, leaving the work to be done
by barefoot Congolese, some of them children, with shovels and buckets.
