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  • War wounded patients lie on stretchers after being treated by MSF at a local hospital in Tissi, Chad. The town of Tissi is located in the remote south east region of Chad where MSF has set up an emergency response to provide medical and humanitarian assis
  • Amia, followed her husband,who is a soldier to the remote region of Tissi in southeast Chad a few months ago. She is talking to IRIN at the Tissi health centre where she has brought her one-year-old daughter for a nutrition clinic review. Tissi has a huge
  • The triage area at the MSF hospital in Tissi, southeast Chad. MSF is providing access to healthcare to thousands of vulnerable people in Tissi who otherwise would lack access
  • Achta Mahamat Oumar, is a 21-year-old widow living in the southeast Chad village of Tajdou. Tadjou is home to hundreds of Chadians who recently returned into the country after fleeing violence in neighboring Darfur
  • Mahamat Haroun Dahab and part of his family in the southern Chad village of Tadjou, in Tissi. Tadjou is home to hundreds of Chadians who recently returned home after fleeing conflict in neighbouring Darfur
  • Victoria Nditondino holds up a jug of the dirty, brown water that her grandchildren have drawn from a distant well in southern Angola’s Cunene Province. Lack of rain caused the nearby well to dry up months ago
    The drought dried up wells and forced people to drink dirty water from unsafe sources
  • Eldery couple pushes wheelchair in Hanoi Vietnam. Elderly, aging, disabled, handicap
  • Displaced persons in Mazraq (3) camp in northern Yemen are still not ready to return to Sa'dah following the conflict (May 2013)
  • Children at Mutako Primary School in Chiede commune in southern Angola’s Cunene Province watch water being pumped. Attendance at the school is down as a result of a drought
  • Cattle are the main source of a livelihood in southern Angola’s Cunene Province but a prolonged drought has dried up water sources and pasture
  • Valencia Ndahipoluka takes a rest from pounding millet into a flour that will be used to prepare her family’s one meal of the day at a homestead in southern Angola’s drought-hit Cunene Province
    Children already malnourished as a result of the drought are particularly vulnerable to diseases like cholera
  • With only a few weeks supply of millet left, a family in southern Angola’s drought-stricken Cunene Province is supplementing their one meal a day with these wild fruits known locally as “olongongo”
  • These children have just returned from a three-and-a-half-hour roundtrip journey to collect water for their family in southern Angola’s drought-stricken Cunene Province
  • Victoria Nditondino, 67, and her daughter, Virginia Mwatukange, at the homestead they share with a family of 24 in Chiede commune, in southern Angola’s drought-stricken Cunene Province
  • Subsistence farmer Celine and other villagers from Aboka Manamboay, in south Madagascar’s Atsimo-Andrefana Region, have had their crops destroyed by the insects
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  • Children collect locusts in a bucket to eat as a substitute food source
  • From a distance a locust swarm looks like a dust cloud
  • Communities trying to protect their fields from locusts using smoke
  • The UN Food and Agricultural Organization warns unless donors fund eradication programmes, the locust threat will become a plague seriously affecting food security in an already food insecure country
  • Locusts drying in the sun with cereal crops as part of the preparation for eating the insects
  • As the rainy season started late this year, grazing land in the region of Gao (as of late July) was scarce and herders have to walk a long distance to find food for their animals
  • Pastoralists from nearby villages come to market day in Forgho, 25km north of Gao, hoping to sell their animals
  • In late 1989 Ma Annie Mushan was, in her own words, “not a woman to speak of”. “I was just a housewife” she told IRIN. During the war, Mushan was displaced from her village and ended up living in the town of Totota, and it was here that she was fi
  • Dr Bartee was already a qualified doctor and had recently returned from taking a Masters in the United Kingdom when war broke out in 1989. Not long after he started the organization Merci, which initially dealt with the humanitarian situation in Monrovia,
  • Nyan Zikeh began working for MSF while himself a refugee. “I was still blind when the war came,” he told IRIN. “Then my life kind of changed…We experienced the worst.” He returned to Liberia in 1998 and has since worked with NGOs Save the Chi
  • Another former MSF employee currently engaged in medical training is Sister Barbara Brillant, who runs a nursing school in the Liberian capital, Monrovia Brillant arrived in Sierra Leone as a missionary in 1977. “I arrived here as a young lady…with
  • Dr Moses Massaquoi started working with Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) after being displaced by a rebel attack in July 1990. He has since worked with the NGO in numerous postings across Africa, before returning to Liberia with the Clinton Health Access
  • Goats are lifted on a truck going to Gao where herders hope to fetch a higher price for their animals. July 2013
  • Pakistani FPU Assist in Timorese Police Exercises. 24/Sep/2009. Dili, Timor-Leste
  • MINUSTAH Police Officers Detain University Student Protesters. 12/Jun/2009. Port au Prince, Haiti
    Nigerian police in the UN mission to Haiti assist in quelling a student protest in Port au Prince in 2009
  • Two woman help another through a hedge of cacti at a distribution centre in Afgoye, Somalia

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