JSRP Research Director Tatiana Carayannis, Program Coordinator Aaron Pangburn and Program Associate Mignonne Fowlis with JSRP local researchers arrive at Gemena Airport in DRC’s Equateur province.
On our way to Gbadolite, SSRC gets held up by the famous Equateur mud.
Tatiana Carayannis discussing our JSRP work with faculty and students at the Université de Gbadolite.
A local market on the way to Inke refugee camp, home to 13,000 Central African Refugees and 40km from Gbadolite.
The SSRC research team with Congolese administrators from the Inke refugee camp and a few Central African representatives from the camp’s governance committees.
The central square in Gbadolite commemorating former Zaire President Mobutu Sésé Seko, who merged two villages to create the city in the 1960s.
The SSRC team with a customary chief and his community in Kotakoli.
The SSRC team in front of Mobutu’s marble Kawele Palace on the hills overlooking Gbadolite.
Abandoned Int'l Airport in Gbadolite Abandoned Int'l Airport in Gbadolite
The SSRC team with representatives from Les Aiglons, an NGO that works with former combatants.