Aiming to kill: About 5.4 million people—roughly the population of Denmark or the U.S. state of Colorado—have died in the past decade in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as a consequence of the country’s 1998-2003 war and its aftermath, making it the deadliest conflict since World War II. Most recently, fighting reignited in August between the Army and the CNDP rebel group following a lull after a January peace agreement. Here, an Army soldier strikes an intimidating pose on Nov. 9 at the front line just outside the eastern town of Goma.