His face daubed with streaks of white chalk and wearing traditional strings of beads and amulets to protect him from death, a young Miya-Miya combatant rests in an abandoned house in the old mining village of Kananda.
Believing that they are protected by juju spirits, the Miya-Miya of Katanga are renowned for widespread use of child soldiers, rape and cannibalism as weapons of war.
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