Showing posts with label The DRC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The DRC. 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