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  • A group of soldiers stand in the foreground as a fire blazes behind the,.
    The Nigerian military has been accused of a scorched earth campaign in its counter-insurgency war in the northeast.
  • A group of people stand in line, two apparent military men are around them. In the distance we see a village burning.
    The Nigerian military has been accused of destroying villages in its counter-insurgency campaign in the northeast, and forcing people into government-held towns.
  • A group of soldiers are pictured in front of a burning village.
    The Nigerian military has been accused of a scorched earth campaign in its counter-insurgency war in the northeast.
  • Pictured is a house from a Nigerian village, smoke is coming out of the roof.
  • Nigerian soldiers are pictured knelt in front of a in a village. Smoke in in the background.
    Nigerian soldiers told The New Humanitarian they were suspicious of villages in rural areas, believing they are controlled by Boko Haram.
  • A map showing a series of villages near Bama in North East Nigeria. On the bottom right we see an inset map that shows the region that is being depicted. The city of Bama along with Abbaram, Ansura, Banzon, Gone Aliri, Kashimiri, Golumba Gana, Dugje, Ladantar, Dauleri, and Yemati are highlighted.
  • Pictured is an older woman seated and receiving medical attention from a woman knelt before here and a man next to the woman.
    Some of the communities worst hit by Cyclone Mocha in Myanmar and Bangladesh were groups that had already been displaced due to persecution, political upheaval, and previous disasters.
  • Pictured is a cooling facility set up by the Bright Star Development Society Balochistan in response to last summer's deadly heat wave in Pakistan. The station is a tent with two signs to each side of it. Centred we see a man walking out of the tent with a cup of water on the right hand and a hen in the other. Pictured behind him are other men sitting and another person getting water at the water cooler.
    A cooling facility set up by the Bright Star Development Society Balochistan in response to last summer's deadly heat wave in Pakistan – just one example of the many community-led aid projects that have been making a difference around the globe.
  • A graphic showing a statue of atlas with an upward arrow on his back.
  • Pictured is what looks like a hallway. In the foreground is a woman leaning against a doorframe. To the right we see a line of people, some standing, some sitting.
    Tembien in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. Displaced people have taken over the town’s two schools, delaying the start of the school year.
  • Pictured are around 400 African asylum seekers and migrants wait after disembarking in the Italian port of Augusta, Sicily. They sit on the ground, in the background the sun is setting and to the right we see a ship.
    Around 400 African asylum seekers and migrants wait after disembarking in the Italian port of Augusta, Sicily. Arrivals have increased this year, and Italy's reception system is ill-prepared to cope.
  • I demand justice from the authorities. We who are unfortunate are asking for more security.
  • Illustration with a quote: "I hope one day I will be free, that I will no longer be under the gangs' control"
  • This is an illustration that aims to represent forms of violence that women in Haiti are facing as gang violence is on the rise in the country. At the center we see the profile of a woman holding her head in her hands. In the background is a wire fence and on it are 5 images in boxes that surround the woman. They show: A woman kneeling in front of a person holding a gun. A hand holding a gun. A pregnant person. A woman walking into the horizon with their child in hand. A house on fire.
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  • UN truck driving through bleak looking landscape.
  • This is a photograph that has been edited with a layer of orange to green gradient. It shows a line of Sudanese women who've had to escape the war standing in an arid environment. They're all carrying things in their hands. One has a child on her side. They are waiting in line to receive aid.
  • An edited image of a picture of a woman who is walking away from the camera. She carries a young child on her left him as she walks up a muddy slope with trees and foliage around her. The woman is in color while the rest of her surroundings are edited into a purple to green gradient.
  • Pictured is a man wearing all black. He sits in some stairs outdoors facing a building. We do not see his face.
    Like hundreds of other Afghans in the EU, Azad has been waiting for more than a year to bring his family to Germany, despite being given subsidiary protection.
  • A map of Ethiopia. The Tigray region is highlighted in burgundy red. There are locator dots in Addis Ababa,  Mekelle, Samre and Tembien.
  • A graphic image made in a collage style. The background is a reflected gradient that goes from orange to burgundy. Overlayed on top of that is an image of Euro coins. There is a line graph with some peaks and some dips. On both sides we see an extended arm. Within the hands are dollar bills.
  • This is an illustration that aims to represent forms of violence that women in Haiti are facing as gang violence is on the rise in the country. At the center we see the profile of a woman holding her head in her hands. In the background is a wire fence and on it are 5 images in boxes that surround the woman. They show: A woman kneeling in front of a person holding a gun. A hand holding a gun. A pregnant person. A woman walking into the horizon with their child in hand. A house on fire.
  • A woman is pictured holding two babies, one in each arm. She looks beyond the camera. In front of her we see a dresser with a large oblong mirror where you can see her reflection.
  • A map showing Venezuela and Colombia with a locator dot on the border city of Cúcuta.
  • People take out the belongings of Burundian refugees from a bus which transported them from Tanzania to neighbouring Burundi, as part of a repartition program, at the Nyabitare transit site, in the Gisuru commune, Ruyigi province, Burundi, October 3, 2019.
    The belongings of Burundian refugees are unloaded from a bus transporting them home from neighbouring Tanzania, in 2019. Over 400,000 Burundians fled their country amid a political crisis in 2015, but many have since returned.
  • Syrians holding the flag of the Syrian revolution during a demonstration in Amsterdam, Netherlands in March 2022 to commemorate the eleventh anniversary of the beginning of protests against the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
    Syrians hold the flag of the Syrian revolution during a demonstration in Amsterdam in March 2022 to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the beginning of protests against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
  • Sonia Pimenta, the social leader in the Alfonso Gómez settlement near the Colombian-Venezuelan border.
  • A car from the International Migration Organization is parked in front of a house in the Alfonso Gómez settlement.
    A car from the UN's migration agency, IOM, parked in front of a house in the Alfonso Gómez settlement near the Colombian border city of Cúcuta, where many feel abandoned by the aid response.
  • A map showing Somaliland and Somalia with locator dots on Las Anod and Mogadishu.
  • This is a picture of Hawa Abdi Ali Kaar, center, runs a non-profit women’s charity that has been working to support displaced civilians that have fled fighting in Las Anod, Somalia. She wears an olive green covering and is surrounded by women and children.
    Hawa Abdi Ali Kaar (in the centre) runs a women’s charity working to support civilians who have fled the fighting in Las Anod.
  • A woman is pictured at a distance walking in between encampments. These are temporary tent shelters in an informal refugee camps outside Kalabaydh, Somalia.
    Temporary tent shelters in an informal refugee camp outside Kalabaydh, Somalia, in May 2023. More than 185,000 civilians have fled the fighting in nearby Las Anod.
  • A member of the new self-defense group known as 'El Machete' walks by a graffiti reading 'Sicario out' as he looks for members of drug gangs and municipal authorities during a protest against the growing violence in the area, in Pantelho, in Chiapas state, Mexico. He wears a face covering, jeans, a dark jumper and a back pack. The photo was taken on July 27, 2021.
    A member of El Machete self-defence group walks past graffiti that reads "Sicario (hired gunman) out" during a July 2021 protest against growing violence by drug cartels and paramilitaries in the Pantelhó area of Mexico's Chiapas state.

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