Hugh Kinsella Cunningham, winner of the 2024 Humanitarian Visa d’Or award from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) | Displaced by the M23

Soldiers with the DRC armed forces moving past Zaina displacement camp on 8 April 2023. Sake, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo

Photograph: Hugh Kinsella Cunningham

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Mudja, Democratic Republic of Congo

Tuliza Bisere holds her daughter Ishara, who was cured of mpox but still shows scars of the disease, in the camp for internal displaced persons in Mudja. The World Health Organization this week declared an international public health emergency in the face of rising cases that are spreading beyond the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the virus is endemic.

Photograph: Moise Kasereka/EPA

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Kanyaruchinya, Democratic Republic of Congo
Justine Munguiko holds her child who has been cured of Mpox, an infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus that causes a painful rash, enlarged lymph nodes and fever, at the site for the internally displaced people, in Nyiragongo territory, near Goma.

Photograph: Arlette Bashizi/Reuters

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