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  • Small-scale mining is practiced for survival rather than profit in Malawi
    Small scale miner near the northern Malawian town of Mzimba (June 2013)
  • Smalls-scale miners cannot afford the luxury of protective clothing or even a pair of boots near the northern Malawian town of Mzimba
    Smalls-scale miners cannot afford the luxury of protective clothing or even a pair of boots near the northern Malawian town of Mzimba (June 2013)
  • Isaac Gondwe, a Mzuzu-based semi-precious stone trader, holds a piece of rose quartz. For 15 years he has lobbied for fair value in the small scale mining sector for Malawi’s gemstones
    Isaac Gondwe, a Mzuzu-based semi-precious stone trader, holds a piece of rose quartz, Malawi (June 2013)
  • Since receiving treatment for his trauma, Firas Alshater has been able to resume his career as a filmmaker
  • A burnt house in Chorogo village in Malkamari division of Banisa District in Mandera
    Several houses have been torched as clan clashes engulf Mandera
  • Ngara is a fishing village on Lake Malawi, about 30km south of the town of Karonga
    Ngara is a fishing village on Lake Malawi, about 30km south of the town of Karonga.
  • Kenya Red Cross Society personnel assist people injured in retaliatory attacks in Chorogo village in Malkamari division of Banisa District in Mandera
    Many believe the clashes which have left many injured are political
  • A group of sex workers in Ngara. The women charge about US$2 for their services
    A group of village sex workers.
  • Salon workers in Ngara, a northern Malawi fishing village about 30km south of Karonga
    Workers in Ngara’s Mama Debora hair salon
  • Roadside butchery in Ngara, a northern Malawi fishing village about 30km south of Karonga
    Fishing income helps people to buy other foods such as meat from this roadside butchery.
  • Fish for sale in Ngara, a northern Malawi fishing village about 30km south of Karonga
    The fish are sold on the roadside, in neighbouring Zambia, and as far south as Blantyre.
  • Ngara, a northern Malawi fishing village about 30km south of Karonga
    The small community lies on the main south-north road linking Lilongwe to the Tanzanian border 70km away.
  • Fisherman in Ngara, a northern Malawi fishing village about 30km south of Karonga
    Fishermen are worried about possible oil extraction in the lake, fearing that pollution could ruin their livelihoods.
  • Preserving fish in Ngara, a northern Malawi fishing village about 30km south of Karonga
    Some of the fish are parboiled before being dried on the racks allowing them to be preserved for up to four months.
  • Fishermen in Ngara, a northern Malawi fishing village about 30km south of Karonga
    The fish are dried on wooden racks on the beach. Malawians are estimated to derive 20 percent of their protein needs from the lake.
  • Traders in Ngara, a northern Malawi fishing village about 30km south of Karonga
    Caught at night, they are landed in the morning and sold to traders, mainly women.
  • The Usipa fish (Engraulicypris sardella) is a pelagic cyprinid endemic to Lake Malawi and grows to a maximum length of about 130mm
    Usipa fish (Engraulicypris sardella) are endemic to Lake Malawi and grow up to 130mm in length.
  • Fishermen in Ngara, a northern Malawi fishing village about 30km south of Karonga
    Fishing is the economic backbone of the 1,400 household community
  • Fisherman in Ngara, a northern Malawi fishing village about 30km south of Karonga
    Ngara fishing village in northern Malawi
  • A falafel shop in Gaza City. Restaurant owners have suffered due to cooking gas shortages in Gaza
  • An employee of Daban Company for butane gas filling rummages through 40,000 empty gas cylinders waiting to be filled. Gaza suffers from chronic shortages of gas for cooking and heating
  • Myanmar is the world's second largest producer of illicit opium, after Afghanistan
  • Poppy farmers tend to their crops in eastern Myanmar. The country is the world's second largest producer of illicit opium, after Afghanistan
  • Muslim volunteers prepare food for Rohingya detainees at the nearby nearby Dan Nok IDC in Songkla Province in southern Thailand
  • Looking inside a crowded immigration detention centre (IDC) Phang Nga Province, southern Thailand, where 276 Rohingya men are now being kept and where conditions remain poor. [June 2013]
  • Displaced Yemenis who fled the fighting between Houthi rebels and the government (Mazraq camp, near Haradh)
  • Women migrants in Haradh from the Horn of Africa are particularly vulnerable to exploitation from Yemeni smugglers
  • Migrants at the IOM centre in Haradh close to Yemen’s border with Saudi Arabia. Tougher border restrictions mean tens of thousands of migrants from the Horn of Africa find it impossible to cross into Saudi Arabia
  • Mazraq camp, near Haradh for IDPs displaced by the six conflicts in northern Yemen between Houthi rebels and government forces
  • At Haradh hospital, NW Yemen, mothers get free check-ups for the children. Almost a million Yemeni children under the age of five have acute malnutrition (May 2013)
  • Ethiopian teenage migrants days before being voluntarily repatriated from Yemen (May 2013)
  • Prototype photo of Prepex device
    PrePex promises less pain and less time

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