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A man sits under a stand used for drying plants in an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Gulu district, August 2006 in northern Uganda. For 20 years a rebel group known as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and its infamous leader, Joseph Kony, have been waging a war against the Ugandan government, burning villages, mutilating civilians, and abducting children to force them to serve as soldiers and sex slaves. Based in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the LRA continues to terrorize northern Uganda, forcing millions of people to abandon their homes for dire conditions of IDP camps. People in the affected area are helped by Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), who provide health care, rehabilitate and run hospitals, battle epidemics, carry out vaccination campaigns, and offer mental healthcare. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh)