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  • Adam from Zimbabwe, who has just received his Section 22 permit, which allows him to stay in South Africa for six months while he awaits his interview for asylum. He queued for 12 hours along with thousands of other Southern Africans outside the Crown Min
    After a 12-hour wait in the queue, Adam from Zimbabwe received his Section 22 permit, which allows him to stay in South Africa for six months while he awaits his interview for asylum.
  • A queue of Southern Africans stretches down the street outside Crown Mines Asylum Determination Centre in Johannesburg.
  • The skin form of anthrax in humans.
  • Thousands of Pahade families have been displaced over the past year due to commnal tensions between the Madhesi and Pahade.
  • Mistrust between different groups is growing due to ethnic politics that is taking a dangerous turn. Many Madhesi people have also been victimised due to communal tensions over recent years.
  • Hard to be openly gay in Nigeria.
  • Trucks wait to load at Eleme refinery, Port Harcourt.
  • Charity Ekiti, sex worker in Eleme, Port Harcourt.
  • The Jatropha’s deceitfully luscious yellow fruit are poisonous; however, these glossy black seeds have an oil content of 37%.
  • Jatropha has the potential for improving the household income amongst the rural poor of the developing world.
  • Ruth Wangechi examines her crop in Thung'ari village. The maize failed at the silking stage because of poor rains.
  • Villagers use water buffalos to carry their belongings as they evacuate from fighting between government troops and separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)
  • A street leading into a shanty town area has turned into a swirling river.
  • Maize smut grows down the silks to the kernels and causes galls on the ears.
  • At least 600 police were killed and over 800 were wounded in different security incidents in Afghanistan from March to July 2008, according to the interior ministry.
  • An IRIN car on its way to a returnees settlement in the north of Kabul, August 2008.
  • The window of a house at a returnees settlement in the north of Kabul, August 2008.
  • Afghan children collecting water at a returnees settlement in the north of Kabul, August 2008.
  • An Afghan child carries a jerry can at returnee township in the north of Kabul, August 2008.
  • An old woman carries her grandchild at an evacuation camp in Pikit town, southern Philippines.
  • HIV+ woman in São Tomé and Príncipe
  • A young girl and her siblings in an evacuation camp in the town of Pikit, southern Philippines [August 11, 2008]
    Une fillette et ses frères et sœurs, dans un camp d’évacuation, à Pikit, une ville du sud des Philippines
  • The Philippine army conducts a sweep along a highway in the southern Philippine town of Pikit where fighting has been intense between government forces and rebel factions of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)
  • A family uses a tractor to evacuate in the southern Philippine town of Pikit in Mindanao Island [August 11, 2008] as fighting between Muslim separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels and government troops displaced 130,000 people.
  • Market in Praia, Cape Verde
  • A street in Cameroon's economic hub, Douala.
  • Cameroonian informal economy worker, Kanmegne Marie Odile.
  • Many communities in northern Vietnam remain flooded with the Red River, the main tributary running through Vietnam’s northern delta, still overflowing its banks.
  • While no exact number of displaced is yet known, thousands have been evacuated due to high water or destroyed homes. The Vietnamese Red Cross Society is currently undertaking an assessment of the overall damage.
  • Communities in northern Vietnam remain cut off from emergency aid after tropical storm Kammuri triggered floods and landslides that left 145 people dead or missing on 9 and 10 August.
  • The ICRC distributed food and non-food aid to over 9,500 IDPs in July, the organisation said.
  • Séraphine Ngendakumana, 36, repatriated from Tanzania on November 17, 2006.

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