The Year in Pictures 2009: DRC

Life in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) became even more difficult in 2009 as Ugandan rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) unleashed merciless brutality on civilians in Haut-Uélé and Bas-Uélé provinces, following military attacks by the Ugandan and Congolese armies on the LRA. Villages were burned, people attacked with machetes and clubs, and children abducted. People fled by the hundreds of thousands, with many crossing into camps in Uganda and in Southern Sudan, where existing MSF teams set up emergency medical care. Learn more.

Photo: DRC 2009 © Michael Goldfarb/MSF