Portraits
The people we see
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A youth organizer speaks on his mobile phone while waiting for youths to arrive at a meeting of the National Youth Council to discuss the current crisis and the message that youth want to send to upcoming peace talks in Libreville, at the basketball stadium in the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. President Francois Bozize's government remains under threat by the rebels vowing to overthrow him, despite the presence of around 1,000 troops of a multinational central-african regional force, and a meeting in Libreville, Gabon on Jan. 8 to promote a political solution to the crisis. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Abubakar Jalloh, 9, whose left arm was hacked off by rebel soldiers when he was five years old, laughs as he falls flat on his back holding a child's plastic toy pistol, whilst playing football with friends at No.2 River Beach near Freetown, Sierra Leone Sunday, May 30, 2004. Abubakar walks to the beach each day to beg money, which he gives to his mother, from the foreign aid workers who go there for recreation. The opening trials at the war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone started Thursday. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A young Rwandan girl sits amongst hundreds gathered at a ceremony to await the arrival of a small flame of remembrance, symbolic fire traveling the country, and hear genocide memories in the capital Kigali, Rwanda Saturday, April 5, 2014. The country will commemorate on April 7, 2014 the 20th anniversary of the genocide when ethnic Hutu extremists killed neighbors, friends and family during a three-month rampage of violence aimed at ethnic Tutsis and some moderate Hutus, leaving a death toll that Rwanda puts at 1,000,050. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
An elderly displaced Lebanese woman observes the commotion as U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland tours the Sanayeh Gardens public park where displaced families are sleeping in Beirut, Lebanon Sunday, July 23, 2006. Egeland said that on Monday the United Nations will release an international appeal for aid for Lebanon. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A well-wisher sings religious songs and prays with others for the health of Nelson Mandela outside the entrance to the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa Sunday, July 7, 2013. South Africa's anti-apartheid hero, who was admitted June 8 for a recurring lung infection, has now spent a month in the hospital. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
An armed resident makes the victory sign in the main square in Zawiya, 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of Tripoli, in Libya Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011. Hundreds of armed anti-government forces backed by military defectors in Zawiya, the city closest to the capital Tripoli, prepared Sunday to repel an expected offensive by forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi who are surrounding the city. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A displaced boy mimics the photographer taking a picture of him, using a fake plastic jewel, at a United Nations compound which has become home to thousands of people displaced by the recent fighting, in the capital Juba, South Sudan Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013. Some 25,000 people live in two hastily arranged camps for the internally displaced in Juba and nearly 40,000 are in camps elsewhere in the country, two weeks after violence broke out in the capital and a spiralling series of ethnically-based attacks coursed through the nation, killing at least 1,000 people. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Rwandans listen to speakers recount genocide memories after the arrival of a small flame of remembrance, symbolic fire traveling the country, in the capital Kigali, Rwanda Saturday, April 5, 2014. The country will commemorate on April 7, 2014 the 20th anniversary of the genocide when ethnic Hutu extremists killed neighbors, friends and family during a three-month rampage of violence aimed at ethnic Tutsis and some moderate Hutus, leaving a death toll that Rwanda puts at 1,000,050. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A Chadian soldier fighting in support of Central African Republic president Francois Bozize, sits on a truck in a convoy of other Chadian soldiers near Damara, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. After troops under Bozize seized the capital in 2003 amid volleys of machine-gun and mortar fire, he dissolved the constitution and parliament, and now a decade later it is Bozize himself who could be ousted from power with rebels having seized more than half the country and made their way to the doorstep of the capital in less than a month. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Maths teacher Hussein Hayder smokes a tobacco water-pipe in his apartment in the heavily-bombed town of Srifa in southern Lebanon Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006. Hussein's apartment was untouched, but up to 601 buildings in the town were either damaged or destroyed - according to a local Hezbollah official. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Displaced boys who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in Bor by boat across the White Nile, play after bathing in the Nile in the town of Awerial, South Sudan Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. The international Red Cross said Wednesday that the road from Bor to the nearby Awerial area "is lined with thousands of people" waiting for boats so they could cross the Nile River and that the gathering of displaced is "is the largest single identified concentration of displaced people in the country so far". (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)