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  • Susan Kake, 45, inside her hut in Masumave, a village of 2,000 largely subsistence farmers in PNG’s remote Eastern Highlands Province, rarely sleeps under the bednet behind her. Malaria remains endemic in the country
  • An IDP family living in a host community in Charsadda District, in the Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, has lunch. The elder of the family just picked up their one-month ration from a WFP distribution point
  • Côte d’Ivoire cocoa farmers are boosting yields through certification schemes
  • Many people have sought refuge from the floods in the Chiaquelane camp in Mozambique's Gaza district
  • Charred body parts are among the remains of a massive suicide car bombing in the Iraqi capital Baghdad in December 2007
  • This image of Super Typhoon Bopha was taken by NASA astronaut, Kevin Ford in December 2012 from the International Space Station, as the storm bore down on the Philippines
  • The French-led military offensive has dislodged Islamist militants from key towns in northern Mali
  • Many people have sought refuge from the floods in the Chiaquelane camp in Mozambique's Gaza district
    Several thousand displaced by floods again in Mozambique
  • Angry protestors pelt policemen with stones in central Cairo on the second anniversary of the 2011 revolution that ousted long-time President Hosni Mubarak from power
  • On the second anniversary of the 2011 revolution, policemen in Egypt pull one protestor by the hair after arresting him in central Cairo, the scene of violent clashes between policemen guarding state institutions and hotels and protestors
  • Building back post Typhoon Bopha/Pablo in the Philippines province of Davao Oriental, among the hardest hit
  • Families in Panansalan, a barangay hit by Typhoon Bopha/Pablo on 4 December 2012, continue living in their damaged home two months afterward
  • Mounds of uncollected rubbish outside illegally occupied flats in the Zimbabwean capital Harare. (February 2013)
  • At risk of boulders
  • An internally displaced person (IDP) shows his living conditions on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Afghanistan (Jan 2013)
  • Residents of Seyinna Gababe, a village 18km from Kaédi, had no food stocks at all as of December 2012 - as they were waiting for the harvest to begin in January (later than rain-fed agriculture as decrue relies on water to recede to plant on it)
  • The dwindling catch means, fishermen’s income levels have fallen badly. Fishing is an important livelihood in northern Sri Lanka
  • Despite the fish-rich seas, northern fishing has yet to recover from the conflict that ended in May 2009
  • As of end of 2012 the harvest in Mauritania was far better than 2011 due to decent rains. Fields outside of Kaedi in the Gorgol region
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  • Anesu Sithole, from Zimbabwe, has been making and selling bedspreads and cushions from a stall in inner-city Johannesburg for four years. Without access to  training or capital she cannot expand the business and earns just enough to feed her family
  • With business skills training and a grant from Jesuit Refugee Service, Clement Mukengeshay, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, has started a dressmaking business in inner-city Johannesburg
  • The large fruit bats, also known as flying foxes,  are the primary carrier of the Nipah Virus in Bangladesh
  • A group of woman look to the camera in Goroka, PNG
  • Jean-Babtiste Manjarisoa joined a volunteer brigade to fight locusts in south Madagascar
  • A Pokomo woman carries water back to her village in the Tana Delta, Kenya
    A Pokomo woman carries water back to her village in the Tana Delta, Kenya (Jan 2013)
  • Tourism revival threatened by massive sand-mining
    Sand-mining is fast eroding beaches near the Sierra Leonean capital Freetown. On Hamilton beach, up to forty trucks can be lined up at any one time to be loaded with sand (Jan 2013)
  • Kenyan police patrol the streets following days of unrest in Mombasa, Kenya (Aug 2012)
    Kenyan police patrol the streets following days of unrest in Mombasa, Kenya (Aug 2012)
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  • The coastline is drawing closer to homes along the beach
    A string of destroyed buildings line Lakka Beach near Freetown, victims of coastal erosion after sand-mining began here in 2003 (Jan 2013)
  • Fear lingers and ethnic tension is on the rise in recently liberated towns. In Diabaly citizens tell of two Tuareg families who were forced to flee their village and are now hiding in town
  • Harriet Juma, from Zomba District in southern Malawi, is using hormonal injections to control the size of her family

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