Forced to flee
With two chickens tucked under her arms, a girl arrives at a transit camp in western Uganda, where she is among a huge tide of refugees displaced by fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Many thousands of Congolese people fled to Uganda to escape clashes between the DRC military and an Islamist rebel group, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which staged an attack on a eastern DRC town on July 11.
A woman displaced by fighting between the DRC army and the ADF rebel group carries her belongings on her head as she arrives at the Bukanga transit camp in western Uganda.
A Congolese refugee family sleeps out in the open at the camp.
An elderly Congolese refugee listens to a radio.
A refugee woman prepares a meal next to her makeshift shelter.
A Congolese child, displaced by the fighting between the DRC army and the ADF rebels, cries as she arrives at the camp.
A bicycle belonging to a Congolese family stands upside down next to two improvised tents.
Congolese refugee children sleep on mattresses in the open air.
A child holds a doll at the transit camp.
A Congolese girl prepares a meal.
Refugees at the camp flock to collect food.
A refugee child holds her plate on the back of her head as she waits for a meal.
