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![[Somalia] Women prepare food at an internally displaced persons camp in Arare, 12 km from Jamame, southern Somalia, 15 December 2006. Although humanitarian agencies have provided relief aid after the worst floods in 10 years, lack of proper sanitation and](/s3/files/styles/media_list_2x/public/images/2006121821.jpg.webp?itok=siooY72M "Women preparing food at a camp for internally displaced people in Somalia. The sheer numbers of people fleeing the fighting in the capital is adding to pressure on food and shelter")
![[Yemen] Small fishing boats, like this one in Bossaso'o busy commercial port, carry up to 125 people when used to smuggle migrants from the Somali coast across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen. Smugglers charge $30 to $50 and sometimes throw their passengers out](https://assets.thenewhumanitarian.org/s3fs-public/styles/media_list_2x/public/images/20062156.jpg.webp?itok=rfSCbQa_ "The fishermen are asking for help to get rid of illegal ships.")
![[Somalia] livestock in Somalia.](https://assets.thenewhumanitarian.org/s3fs-public/styles/media_list_2x/public/images/2064.jpg.webp?itok=YKndwDHF "Livestock traders are being hit hard as drought takes its toll")
![[Sao Tome & Principe] The small airport on Principe island in November 2005. A third of its short runway is now unusable which means that only small planes like the 18-seat Dehavilland Twin Otter shown in the picture, can now land there. The Twin Otter li](https://assets.thenewhumanitarian.org/s3fs-public/styles/media_list_2x/public/images/2005121317.jpg.webp?itok=9tJxAKDm "South African pilots are increasingly in demand not only in Africa but in the Middle East as well")