Showing posts with label Democratic Republic of the Congo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Democratic Republic of the Congo. Show all posts

Friday, May 8, 2015

Bringing phone reception to a remote mountain town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – in pictures

Thursday 7 May 2015 00.00 BST

With roads inaccessible, transporting a specially designed mobile phone mast to the remote town of Numbi, high in the the mountains of South Kivu, was an onerous task. Photojournalist Susan Schulman joined a team from an African communications company as they carried the mast’s heavy component parts across 27km of steep, muddy terrain