Photo credits
The photographers and licences of the images published on this site.
Some of the photos on this site come from Wikimedia Commons. Their authors published them under free licences, and we thank them.
These licences allow the photos to be reused provided the author and the licence are credited. You will find this information below, with a link to each photo’s original page. For this site, the photos were cropped, resized and converted to WebP.
| Photo | Author and source | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| A displaced woman and her baby in Mugunga camp, near Goma (North Kivu), 2012. | MONUSCO / Sylvain Liechti | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Distribution of plastic sheets, blankets and jerrycans to displaced people in Kibati camp, near the front line (North Kivu), 2008. | Julien Harneis | CC BY-SA 1.0 |
| Displaced children in Nyanzale (Masisi), where the population more than doubled with the arrival of 20,000 people fleeing the fighting, 2007. | Julien Harneis | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Kibumba displaced persons camp, north of Goma, near the Rwandan border, 2008. | Julien Harneis | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Kanyaruchinya camp for people displaced by war, on the outskirts of Goma, 2024. | Sunway godianne | CC0 |
| Kashaka and Shabindu camp for people displaced by war, in Goma, 2024. | OtikolenoiL | CC0 |
| Bulengo displaced persons camp, west of Goma. | Juscar Karubamba | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Diggers in an artisanal wolframite and cassiterite mine shaft in Kailo (Maniema), 2007. | Julien Harneis | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Children working in the artisanal mine of Kailo (Maniema), 2007. | Julien Harneis | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Artisanal cobalt miners: manual work, often in dangerous conditions, 2020. | IIED | CC BY 2.5 |
| People from the Kibumba–Rutshuru road who fled fighting between the FARDC and the M23, gathered in Kanyaruchinya, north of Goma, August 2012. | MONUSCO / Sylvain Liechti | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Displaced families who reached Kanyaruchinya with their cattle after fleeing the fighting, August 2012. | MONUSCO / Sylvain Liechti | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| A child among the makeshift shelters of displaced people in Kanyaruchinya, near Goma, August 2012. | MONUSCO / Sylvain Liechti | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Makeshift shelters of families who fled the M23 advance, in Kanyaruchinya, near Goma, August 2012. | MONUSCO / Sylvain Liechti | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| A house destroyed by the deadly floods in Kalehe (South Kivu), May 2023. | MONUSCO Photos | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Roofs torn off after the Kalehe floods (South Kivu), May 2023. | MONUSCO Photos | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Diggers and children at an artisanal mining site in Kailo (Maniema), 2007. | Julien Harneis | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Going down an artisanal mine shaft in Kailo (Maniema), 2007. | Julien Harneis | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| A diggers’ shelter among the spoil heaps of the Kailo mine (Maniema), 2007. | Julien Harneis | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Boulevard du 30 Juin, the main avenue of Kinshasa. | MONUSCO / Myriam Asmani | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Boulevard du 30 Juin in Kinshasa, 2010. | Radio Okapi | CC BY 2.0 |
| The banks of the Congo River in Kinshasa. | Serein | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| The lava lake of Nyiragongo, in Virunga National Park (North Kivu). | Cai Tjeenk Willink | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Bukavu and Lake Kivu, South Kivu. | MONUSCO / Abel Kavanagh | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Lake Kivu seen from Bukavu. | Fiston bamela | CC0 |
| A shopping street in Kisangani (Tshopo). | Yannick Ikombe | CC0 |
| The central market of Kisangani. | Yannick Ikombe | CC0 |
| Kisangani after the rain. | Allen Chouyy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Victims of the Kalehe floods (South Kivu), May 2023. | MONUSCO Photos | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Portrait of President Félix Tshisekedi | U.S. Department of State / Freddie Everett | Domaine public |
| Portrait of Prime Minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka | Cabinet du Premier ministre du Japon | CC BY 4.0 |