View of the Shabindu camp where many displaced people from Masisi territory are taking refuge following clashes between M23 rebels and the Congolese army, in the province of North Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on 09 April 2024.
Displaced people braiding their hair in the church where they are taking refuge at the 8th CEPAC site, Democratic Republic of Congo, 28 March 2024. Some displaced people who have not yet received tarpaulins to build tents are still sheltering in this church.
ICRC surgeons treating grafts from patient Ndayambaje Sinamenye in the operating room of CEBCA Ndosho hospital where he is undergoing treatment after surviving the bombing in which he lost two of his children at the 8th CEPAC Mugunga IDP camp where he was living with his family in the city of Goma, North Kivu, Congo DRC, June 28, 2024.
More than six million Congolese have been forced to leave their villages since the resumption of fighting between the Congolese army and the M23 rebels.
Health workers treat newly-admitted bullet-wounded patients at the CBCA Ndosho hospital following the intensification of fighting between M23 rebels and the Congolese army in the town of Sake, 25km from the city of Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, January 23, 2025.
Red Cross teams and members of civil society unload bodies at the burial site of victims of the fighting in Goma that led to the city’s fall into the hands of M23 rebels, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, February 03, 2025.
A soldier surrendered in Bukavu after the capture of the city by the M23 rebels, says goodbye to her loved ones before boarding a truck at the Unity stadium in Goma for training in Rumangambo, North Kivu province, Republique Democratique du Congo, February 23, 2025
A displaced woman stand where there was her tent before packing her belongings to leave the Bulengo camp and return to her village days after the capture of Goma by M23 rebels, North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, February 12,2025.
The Wazalendo self-defense forces secure the hills of Nyiragongo territory, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, December 09, 2023
Arlette Bashizi is a documentary photographer and photojournalist born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and currently based in Goma. Her work focuses on topics related to health, the environment and culture, and she is known for keeping humans, especially women and youth, at the center of her stories. She covers issues as varied as the mining of rare minerals to feed the West’s thirst for electric vehicles to the impact of the DRC conflict and the Tigray Conflict, as well as the destructive nature of climate change in different African countries.