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  • [Kenya] Klaus Toepfer, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). [Date picture taken: 02 February 2005]
    Klaus Toepfer, UNEP executive director
  • [Egypt] Illiteracy is high among girls and women in the rural areas of Egypt. [Date picture taken: 07/11/2005]
  • [Egypt] Illiteracy is high among girls and women in the rural areas of Egypt. [Date picture taken: 07/11/2005]
  • [Sudan] This bus is taking returnees home to the south from the camps in the outskirts of Khartoum. [Date picture taken: 04/04/2005]
    Les populations du Sud Soudan s'apprêtent à rentrer chez elles
  • [Sudan] A physically disabled Southern Sudanese woman abandoned by her husband's family because of her disability. Looking on is her 19 year old son. [Date picture taken: 02/26/2006]
  • [Kenya] A dead camel near Mandera. Ordinarily camels are the most drought-resistant animals. [Date Picture taken: February 2006]
    A dead camel near Mandera. Ordinarily camels are the most drought-resistant animals.
  • [Horn of Africa] Cross border food security situation analysis.
  • [Kenya] Pastoralists are turning their backs on centuries of nomadic lifestyle and instead settling near permanent water as recurrent drought again decimates their animals. This caravan was trekking to water 45 miles away. [Date picture taken: February 2
    Pastoralists are turning their backs on centuries of nomadic lifestyle and instead settling near permanent water as recurrent drought again decimates their animals. This caravan was trekking to water 45 miles away.
  • [Kenya] Rain has not fallen in northern Kenya for two years and half of all cows and sheep are already dead. Even camels are succumbing, often just as they arrive at the relative refuge of boreholes like this one at Dambas, 80 miles north of provincial ca
    Rainwater harvesting could solve water problems, say experts
  • [Kenya] Drought which is once again ravaging northern Kenya has killed 71 of Sheikh Issa's herd of 85 cows, leaving the 61-year-old virtually penniless as he herds the last few to water at Arbajahan borehole, 110 miles north-west of provincial capital Wa
    The impacts of the less than average rains are expected to be more apparent at the end of December since the rains are continuing (file photo)
  • [Egypt] Surfing sites with political content is often curtailed by the government, according to human rights groups. [Date picture taken: 03/08/2006]
    Surfing sites with political content is often curtailed by the government, according to human rights groups.
  • [Egypt] Surfing sites with political content is often curtailed by the government, according to human rights groups. [Date picture taken: 03/08/2006]
  • [Egypt] Many of Egypt's economic migrants come from rural areas where unemployment is high. [Date picture taken: 01/27/2006]
    Sanitary drainage is a sign of persistent poverty in rural Egypt
  • [Kenya] Herdsmen leave their families and cows in their villages and trek up to 100km through Kenya's arid north with their pack animals - donkeys and camels - to fill water containers to carry back for their weakened livestock. The drought is so severe t
    Les chameaux et les ânes, des espèces plus résistantes, pourraient constituer une source de revenus
  • [Kenya] Even drought-resistant camels are dying in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia and Somalia, as four failed rainy seasons leave wells dry and pastures empty. Some animals make it to the few diesel-powered boreholes sucking water from deep below th
    Even drought-resistant camels are dying in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia and Somalia
  • [Kenya] Desperate pastoralists lead their animals up to 100km to water, here at the desolate Arbajahan borehole, 460 miles north-east of Nairobi in Wajir district, only to see them die from exhaustion when they arrive. Wajir is arguably the epicentre of K
    The drought has already killed a lot of livestock.
  • [Kenya] Thousands of head of livestock are dying, even as they reach boreholes like this one at Arbajahan, 460 miles north of Nairobi in Wajir district, which are ringed by carcasses. Even if rain comes, pasture will take several weeks to be replenished,
  • [Kenya] Thousands of cows and sheep have already died across Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia and those still struggling on are on the brink of starvation. Herdsmen are resorting to sharing their last food and water with their animals - even feeding them black
    Rift Valley Fever has already killed thousands of cows and sheep across East Africa
  • [Kenya] Thousands of cows and sheep have already died across Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia and those still struggling on are on the brink of starvation. Herdsmen are resorting to sharing their last food and water with their animals - even feeding them black
  • [Kenya] Herdsmen leave their families and cows in their villages and trek up to 100km through Kenya's arid north with their pack animals - donkeys and camels - to fill water containers to carry back for their weakened livestock. The drought is so severe t
  • [Kenya] DambasSchoolFeeding/DambasSchoolFeeding2 – Hundreds of school children across northern Kenya are struggling to find food every day due to drought – so humanitarian agencies have stepped in with school feeding programmes like this one at Dambas
    School feeding programmes are necessary in areas where child malnutrition remain high
  • [Egypt] Many of Egypt's economic migrants come from rural areas where unemployment is high. A woman working in the fields in Mansoura. [Date picture taken: 01/27/2006]
    Les coûts indirects liés à l'épidémie de VIH/SIDA sont plus élevés que les coûts directs, selon des économistes
  • [Egypt] Many of Egypt's economic migrants come from rural areas where unemployment is high. [Date picture taken: 01/27/2006]
  • [Iraq] More and more Iraqi women are choosing not to wear headscarves now. [Date picture taken: 01/27/2006]
  • [Iraq] More and more Iraqi women are choosing not to wear headscarves now. [Date picture taken: 01/27/2006]
  • [Mozambique] HIV+ activist Ana María Muhai recovered her health with antiretroviral treatment at the Sant´ Egidio clinic in Machava, near Maputo.
    Antes: com apenas 29 quilos e sem esperança de viver
  • [Mozambique] HIV+ activist Ana María Muhai recovered her health with antiretroviral treatment at the Sant´ Egidio clinic in Machava, near Maputo.
    Hoje: saúde e autoestima graças aos antiretrovirais e ao amor pela vida
  • [South Africa] Men and women sip some of the homebrew in a shebeen in Soweto.
    Men and women sip a homebrewed concoction in a shebeen in Soweto, Johannesburg
  • [Kenya] Class sizes are growing at schools across northern Kenya, perhaps the only positive outcome of drought sweeping the rid land. Many children enrol because they are guaranteed at least one meal per day. [Date picture taken: February 2006]
  • [Kenya] Aid agencies are trucking food - maize, beans and oil - into remote settlements across northern Kenya, southern Ethiopia and southwest Somalia as drought forces malnutrition rates to soar. Here at Hungai township 460 miles north of Nairobi, in Waj
  • [Kenya] Aid agencies are trucking food - maize, beans and oil - into remote settlements across northern Kenya, southern Ethiopia and southwest Somalia as drought forces malnutrition rates to soar. Here at Hungai township 460 miles north of Nairobi, in Waj
  • [Kenya] Class sizes are growing at schools across northern Kenya, perhaps the only positive outcome of drought sweeping the rid land. Many children enrol because they are guaranteed at least one meal per day. [Date picture taken: February 2006]
    School-feeding programmes help boost class attendance

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