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/ 30 December 2006

Hope blooms in smiles of Kinshasa polio kids

After another tense day of photographing riots, mob violence and gun battles in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) capital Kinshasa, I head not to the nearest bar, but to a dilapidated compound, home to children crippled by polio. There, among dozens of twisted bodies and withered limbs, the day’s tension melts away.