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  • [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]
    The government is yet to release grants intended to cushion cash-strapped schools in the region, an official said (file photo)
  • [Africa] Traditional healers, sangomas and herbalists should be associated to the AIDS response. Across Africa, traditional medicine and witchcraft influence people's beliefs and behaviour around AIDS, disease and death. [Date picture taken: 03/07/2006]
  • [Kenya] Desperate pastoralists lead their animals up to 100km to water, here at Dambas borehole, 420 miles north of Nairobi, in Wajir district, only to see them die from exhaustion when they arrive. Wajir is arguably the epicentre of Kenya's drought crisi
    Livestock deaths increase pastoralists’ vulnerability
  • [Africa] Traditional healers, sangomas and herbalists should be associated to the AIDS response. Across Africa, traditional medicine and witchcraft influence people's beliefs and behaviour around AIDS, disease and death. [Date picture taken: 03/07/2006]
    La médecine traditionnelle pourrait jouer un rôle-clé dans le traitement de l'infection au VIH
  • [Africa] Traditional healers, sangomas and herbalists should be associated to the AIDS response. Across Africa, traditional medicine and witchcraft influence people's beliefs and behaviour around AIDS, disease and death. [Date picture taken: 03/07/2006]
    Traditional healers are consulted regularly
  • [Africa] Traditional healers, sangomas and herbalists should be associated to the AIDS response. Across Africa, traditional medicine and witchcraft influence people's beliefs and behaviour around AIDS, disease and death. [Date picture taken: 03/07/2006]
    Traditional healers are consulted regularly
  • [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
    Drought affects Kenyans more often than displacement
  • [Kenya] Initial assessments across northern Kenya in October calculated that 35 per cent of the population needed food hand-outs. That number has grown to an estimated 90 per cent in some places, but officials must still use the list pulled together so ma
  • [Kenya] Pastoralists are being forced to pack up all their belongings and trek to where there is permanent water, where they are settling. All their coping mechanisms usually employed in the face of drought are now exhausted, leaving them no option but to
  • [Kenya] Pastoralists are being forced to pack up all their belongings and trek to where there is permanent water, where they are settling. All their coping mechanisms usually employed in the face of drought are now exhausted, leaving them no option but to
    Conditions in northern Kenya are harsh, with drought a common feature
  • [Kenya] Diesel powered boreholes suck precious water from deep under the wasted land, to feed troughs like this one at Dambas, 420 miles north of Nairobi, in Wajir district. Both exhausted animals and desperate herdsmen share this water – disease outbre
  • [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
  • [Kenya] Pastoralists lead their remaining animals as far as 100km to machine-driven boreholes like this one in Arbajahan, 460 miles north of Nairobi, in Wajir District. There are few cows here - they are too weak to make the journey and  herdsmen instead
  • [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
  • [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
    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.
  • [Africa] Traditional healers, sangomas and herbalists should be associated to the AIDS response. Across Africa, traditional medicine and witchcraft influence people's beliefs and behaviour around AIDS, disease and death. [Date picture taken: 03/07/2006]
  • [Africa] Traditional healers, sangomas and herbalists should be associated to the AIDS response. Across Africa, traditional medicine and witchcraft influence people's beliefs and behaviour around AIDS, disease and death. [Date picture taken: 03/07/2006]
    Herbanários, espiritualistas e médicos na mesma causa
  • [Africa] Traditional healers, sangomas and herbalists should be associated to the AIDS response. Across Africa, traditional medicine and witchcraft influence people's beliefs and behaviour around AIDS, disease and death. [Date picture taken: 03/07/2006]
  • [Africa] Traditional healers, sangomas and herbalists should be associated to the AIDS response. Across Africa, traditional medicine and witchcraft influence people's beliefs and behaviour around AIDS, disease and death. [Date picture taken: 03/07/2006]
    Medicina tradicional e convencional: aliança necessária
  • [Africa] Traditional healers, sangomas and herbalists should be associated to the AIDS response. Across Africa, traditional medicine and witchcraft influence people's beliefs and behaviour around AIDS, disease and death. [Date picture taken: 03/07/2006]
  • [Africa] Traditional healers, sangomas and herbalists should be associated to the AIDS response. Across Africa, traditional medicine and witchcraft influence people's beliefs and behaviour around AIDS, disease and death. [Date picture taken: 03/07/2006]
  • [Africa] Traditional healers, sangomas and herbalists should be associated to the AIDS response. Across Africa, traditional medicine and witchcraft influence people's beliefs and behaviour around AIDS, disease and death. [Date picture taken: 03/07/2006]
  • [Africa] Traditional healers, sangomas and herbalists should be associated to the AIDS response. Across Africa, traditional medicine and witchcraft influence people's beliefs and behaviour around AIDS, disease and death. [Date picture taken: 03/07/2006]
  • [Yemen] Calls for greater female participation in politics.
    Calls for greater participation of women in politics
  • [Guinea] A volunteer soldier in Nzerekore. One day he hopes he will be offered a proper millitary job. [Date picture taken: 02/26/2006]
  • [Angola] Cabinda human rights violations - victim of a shooting.
  • [Pakistan] Unregistered Afghans living in Muzaffarabad say they have received no assistance since the 8 October quake. [Date picture taken: 03/02/2006]
    Unregistered Afghans living in Muzaffarabad say they have received no assistance since the 8 October quake
  • [Guinea] Jean Tamba Koundoouno, 18, and 'commandante' of half a dozen volunteer soldiers in Nzerekore. One day they hope they will be offered a proper millitary job. [Date picture taken: 02/26/2006]
    soldiers in Guinea
  • [Angola] Cabinda Map.
    Cabinda: sandwiched between Congo Brazzaville and the Democratic Republic of Congo
  • [Benin] Citizens in Benin go to the polls to choose successor to Mathieu Kerekou.
[Date picture taken: 03/05/2006]
    Most of Benin's voters chose the presidential coalition when they voted in 31 March legislative polls
  • [Benin] Voters in Benin go to the polls to decide who will replace Mathieu Kerekou as president. [Date picture taken: 03/05/2006]
    Les citoyens béninois appelés aux urnes pour élire le surcesseur du Président Mathieu Kerekou
  • [South Africa] The Johannesburg municipality launched its plans to revive the inner city in 2001.
    The Johannesburg City Council launched its plans to revive the inner city in 2001.

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