Soldier leans on his rifle in a graveyard in San Salvador that was damaged in clashes with anti-government rebels, El Salvador, 11/1989
Pro-Abkhaz fighter during an attack on Georgian government troops in the regional Sukhumi, 09/27/1993
Russian tank crew, Grozny, Chechnya, 01/10/1995
Georgian demonstrators loyal to embattled President Zviad Gamsakhurdia flee a teargas attack by opposition fighters in Tbilisi 01/1992
Russian protestor at anti-reform rally, Moscow, 10/93
Wounded Georgian fighter, Sukhumi, Abkhazia, 09/19/1993
Mother of Georgian fighter killed by separatist forces in Sukhumi, Abkhazia grieves as a fighter from his unit kisses his forehead, 09/1993
Georgians take the body of a family member for burial after he was killed by rebels against President Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Tbilisi, 01/09/1992
Sister of Georgian man killed by anti-government rebels embraces his body during his burial in Tbilisi, 01/09/1992
Pro-Abkhaz separatist troops walk past the bodies of a Georgian fighter and his dog in the regional capital Sukhumi, 09/28/1993
Pro-Abkhaz fighter in Sukhumi waits for the order to advance as separatists ousted Georgian government troops, 09/27/1993
Georgian fighter shouts in excitement after shooting a pro-Abkhaz sniper during a clash on the edge of the regional capital Sukhumi, 09/1993
Georgian civilians grieve after pro-Abkhaz forces overran their neighborhood on the edge of the regional capital Sukhumi, 09/27/1993
Georgian rebels advance on Tbilisi parliament, 12/25/1991
Georgian rebels capture Tbilisi parliament, 01/06/1992
Georgian rebels take a government informer for questioning in Tbilisi prior to ousting President Zviad Gamsakhurdia, 01/06/1992
Pro-Abkhaz fighter shows his rifle to children in the regional capital Sukhumi after the defeat of Georgian loyalists, 09/27/1993
Georgian rebel pauses for a cigarette in the national art gallery in Tbilisi during fighting to capture the nearby parliament building, 12/31/1991
Girl stands amidst buildings damaged by Russian shelling in the Chechen capital Grozny, 11/1994
Ethnic Croat mother and daughter take a train out of the town of Osijek in former Yugoslavia, leaving the men to confront Serb troops, 09/91
Woman shelters from rain in the compound of a hospital in Lobone, South Sudan, 01/1996
Parliament building in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, 03/1996
Sudanese boss gives instructions to construction workers in Khartoum, 03/1996
Man plucks traditional bow harp during a casual soccer game in Juba, southern Sudan, 03/1996
Man with a chicken and a bottle of honey on the edge of a market in Sudan’s Nuba mountains, 09/1997
Children play near burning brush in the Sudan’s Nuba mountains, 09/1997
Boys of Kenya’s Masai tribe in traditional warrior costumes in the Ngong hills outside Nairobi, 08/1997
Fighters of the SPLA rebel group climb over a burned-out government tank near Nimule in southern Sudan, 01/1996
Patients and a bomb crater in a hospital compound in Lobone, South Sudan, 12/1995
Marabou stork in the Ugandan capital Kampala, 02/1997
Woman with polio walks through a park in Juba, South Sudan 03/1996
Sheltering from rain under a tree in a hospital compound in Lobone, southern Sudan, 12/1995
Boy looks at his reflection in a pool of water in Sudan’s Nuba mountains, 09/1997
Woman washes her son in polluted river water at Ojobo in the Niger delta, Nigeria’s main oil-producing region, 11/1998
Dinka tribesman in the Bahr el Ghazal region of southern Sudan, 03/1996
Dinka tribesman walks through a cattle camp at dawn in Bahr el Ghazal, southern Sudan, 03/1996
Amputee herdsman near the Toposa village of Natinga in southern Sudan 03/1996
Chance meeting in Sudan’s Nuba mountains, 09/1997
Sun shines through damaged buildings in Kuito during Angola’s civil war, 09/1999
Girl walks past a gutted building in Kuito during Angola’s civil war, 09/1999
Girl in Kuito during Angola’s civil war, 09/1999
Ethnic Hutus flee towards Burundi’s northern border after persecution by the ruling Tutsi tribe, 07/1996
A Hutu refugee with cholera from Rwanda crawls towards the town of Goma in neighboring Congo (then called Zaire), 08/1994
Bodies of Rwandan Hutu refugees killed by a cholera epidemic litter the ground in Goma, Congo (then called Zaire), 08/1994
Jailed genocide convicts, Guiterrama, Rwanda, 03/1995
Girl leans against a monument in the Liberian capital Monrovia following a brutal civil war, 04/1998
Nigerian peace-keeping troops stage a farewell march through the Liberian capital Monrovia at the end of their mission, 04/1998
Issatu Kargbo, at her family’s house outside Freetown in 08/04/1997, had her hands cut off by rebels in a campaign to terrorize civilians
Soldier seeking amnesty in Kinshasa, Congo (ex-Zaire) is identified as one of the hated Republican Guard of ousted president Mobutu, 05/1997
Dancers attached to the music group “OK Jazz” perform in Kinshasa, Congo (then Zaire), 05/1997
Men with basins walk through a car repair yard in Kinshasa, Congo (then Zaire), 05/1997
Hospital staff in Kikwit, Congo (then Zaire), take the body of an ebola victim for burial during the epidemic, 05/1995
Early morning on the Congo river near the village of Gombe upstream from the capital Kinshasa, 09/2001
Members of the Simon Kimbangu religious cult celebrate a marriage in Kinshasa, Congo, 09/2001
Foot of a market vendor in the village of Gombe on the Congo river upstream from Kinshasa, 09/2001
Brothel room in Ningming, southern China, with the manager, her baby, and a worker, 04/2004
Haitian mother with her baby and elder daughter in a village heavily affected by the country’s HIV/AIDS epidemic, 03/2006
HIV/AIDS outreach worker talks to a passer-by about condom use, Mexico City, 11/27/2005
Man shows he has swallowed opiate substitution pill at clinic for IV-drug users with HIV, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine 04/2010
Intravenous drug users at a shooting gallery in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 03/2006
Sex worker squats by the doorway of the brothel in Pune, India, 01/2004
HIV-positive sex worker waits for clients in a brothel in Pune, India, watched by another girl and the madam, 01/2004