United Nations troops pass the body of a government soldier killed in fighting between government forces and National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) rebelsPhotograph: Sean Smith/GuardianPeople run under a rope barrier during a handout of emergency food rations in KibatiPhotograph: Stephen Morrison/EPABora Kaboko, a girl who was separated from her family while they fled from violence in their townPhotograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP
Rebel soldiers loyal to Laurent Nkunda head towards Mai Mai militiaPhotograph: Jerome Delay/APA woman and children seek refuge near the UN base in KiwanjaPhotograph: Jerome Delay/APA CNDP fighter during a military exercise in the mountains of North KivuPhotograph: Roberto Schmidt/AFPTwo women look at a soldier who lies dead on the road from Goma to KibumbaPhotograph: Walter Astrada/AFPMen atop a wall at a USAID help centre on the outskirts of Goma, in the North Kivu regionPhotograph: Roberto Schmidt/AFPA boy looks out from an emergency food box outside an Internally Displaced People (IDP) campPhotograph: Roberto Schmidt/AFPA boy drinks water from a common source in the IDP camp in Kibati, north of GomaPhotograph: Walter Astrada/AFPCongolese children look on in a camp outside GomaPhotograph: Uriel Sinai/GettyA Congolese woman carries wood to the campPhotograph: Uriel Sinai/GettyCongolese leave Kibati for their villages to the north, Kibumba and Rugari. Several thousand displaced people returned home on Sunday as a ceasefire heldPhotograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFPA Congolese girl looks on in an IDP campPhotograph: Uriel Sinai/GettyAn elderly woman heads back to her home village where she says at least there is food just outside KibatiPhotograph: Stephen Morrison/EPAA young Goma resident plays a guitar as others sing along during a massPhotograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFPA woman argues with Red Cross workers about the identities of the children accompanying her for registration at a camp in KibatiPhotograph: Karel Prinsloo/APA child suffering from diarrhoea receives care at a Mercy Corps clinicPhotograph: Walter Astrada/AFPCongolese children gather inside a church at an IDP camp in KibatiPhotograph: Walter Astrada/AFPThe British foreign secretary, David Miliband, visits the Kibati camp. Foreign envoys converged on Congo on Saturday as pressure mounted for a regional summit to secure an end to the country's worst violence in yearsPhotograph: Jerome Delay/AP
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