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Florence Nirere, 18, stands in the Kibati camp for internally displaced people outside of Goma, Congo, where she says her family is suffering from malnutrition. Aid groups say that more than 5 million people have died due to conflict and the humanitarian crisis in eastern Congo over the past decade. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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The camp for internally displaced in Kibati, Congo, houses more than 50,000 people, and its numbers have swelled as fighting intensifies between pro-government troops and militias loyal to rebel leader Laurent Nkunda. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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The camp for internally displaced people in Kibati, outside of Goma, Congo, houses more than 50,000 people. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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A Congolese man sits outside his makeshift home in the Kibati camp for internally displaced people outside of Goma, Congo, November 2, 2008. Renewed fighting between Congolese government troops and rebel groups has worsened a humanitarian crisis that aid groups describe as "catastrophic." (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Internally displaced people in Kibati camp outside Goma, Congo, complain that the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo, known as MONUC, has done little to safeguard them from attacks by rebel groups and Congolese government troops. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Dawi Goma, 62, chops firewood for a living in the Kibati camp for displaced people in eastern Congo, November 2, 2008. Kibati's population has swelled in recent weeks due to renewed fighting between Congolese troops and rebels led by renegade Congolese Gen. Laurent Nkunda. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Soldiers loyal to the renegade Congolese Gen. Laurent Nkunda stage a pro-Nkunda rally in Rutshuru, Congo, November 1, 2008. Fighting between Nkunda's troops and Congolese government soldiers has displaced tens of thousands of people in eastern Congo in recent weeks. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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