Time
01 July, 1994
Having fled the ethnic violence in their home country of Rwanda, a mother and child cower in the rain at a makeshift hospital at the Kibumba refugee camp near Goma, Zaire. The cholera epidemic, which struck Kibumba, wiped out countless refugees.
Anthony Suau
Suau started his career at the Chicago Sun Times in 1976 and later joined the Denver Post. In 1985, he moved to New York City to work for Black Star agency. He was a contract pho...
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