DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC of CONGO 2009
North Kivu: 14 years of ceaseless conflict
A joint operation by the Congolese military and the Rwandan Defense Force is launched to rout out the FDLR from the inpenetrable forest of N Kivu.
Deep in Walikale, a village flees the danger of the FDLR, following the RDF for protection as they move their front line forward, while a Rwandan soldier is killed in fighting.
Elsewhere, FDLR hostages and families emerge from the bush for the first time in over a decade for some.
1.1 Million displaced :
A tribute to the Congolese spirit , the displaced defy the horrendous conditions they live in.
Haut-Uele, NE Congo
200,000 displaced by Lords Resistance Army attacks. Villages make weapons and organise their own 'auto-defense '.