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© 2002 Patrick Robert from a Day in the Life of Africa
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| Hundreds of passengers disembark to stretch their legs when their Congo River barge reaches Maluku, the last stop before Congolese capital, Kinshasa. With few passable roads in the region, many people travel on barges - without shelter for as long as a month, crowded together with their belongings, livestock, furniture and wares for sale.
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|  | | | French/Paris Since 1982, Robert has covered virtually every war in Africa and the Middle East. A Sygma photographer since 1987, he has won seven awards for his reports on the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone and two for his coverage of the Kurds' exodus after the Gulf War. | | | | | | | 
