A Lendu soldier, some of whom are responsible for cannibalism, lies in hospital in a makeshift hospital in Dro Dro. Captured and beaten by the local population, he now waits in his room for news of his future.

Immaculate (32) in Dro Dro hospital north of Bunia, Ituri province Eastern Congo. She was attacked by Lendu forces and now waits for treatment from locals who have no medical supplies. Bandages were recovered from the ground after looting and are being rewashed to be reused. No aid agency or UN organisation had been to the area in the three weeks since the attack where 22 people we killed, some showed evidence of being consumed by their attackers.

UPC (Union Patriotic de Congo) militias demonstrate against ‘the French assassins’ in Bunia, eastern Congo.

A Lendu child soldier waits in a camp for news of his next deployment. Battles are raging 20km to the north of his position.

Residents of Fataki a village in Eastern Congo flee south from Lendu militias.

Fataki, Eastern Congo after a Lendu attack, which killed 22 people and displaced 7000.

Soldiers of the UPC (Union Patriotic de Congo) wait for their orders in Bule, Eastern Congo.

A body of Hema man, executed by Lendu militia just hours before lie on the road north out of Fataki. He was bound and impaled before being shot. His ears had been bitten off in the ritual killing.

Maria a mother of three lost her arm defending her children in Nizi, Eastern Congo. She recounts the story of soldiers eating flesh from the arm after they had amputated it.

Access to gold mining in Congo is one of the reasons for the ongoing conflict in the eastern regions of Democratic Republic of Congo.

Child soldiers on the road to Fataki, Eastern Congo

A child soldiers rides back to his base in Ituri Province, Eastern Congo.

Child soldiers wait in Bule, south of Fataki for orders to move. They are currently the only defence forces in a 40km radius. Two days later they too pulled out and Bule was attacked.

Catherine (9) too afraid to stay in hospital for fear of being attacked is taken back to the bush after being treated in Dro Dro. She was attacked by Lendu Militias who tried to machete off her leg. She survived but three members of her family were killed. Fourteen people were killed in their beds in the hospital two weeks previously.

Refugees flee south after a rebel attack on Bule and Fataki, Eastern Congo.