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  • During rainy seasons, Freetown slums are heavily flooded and people wade through filthy water to get to higher grounds
    During rainy seasons, Freetown slums are heavily flooded and people wade through filthy water to get to higher grounds
  • Open sewage runs amidst crammed tin houses in the seaside Kroo Bay slum
    An open sewer in Freetown’s Kroo Bay slum, Sierra Leone (Oct 2012)
  • Congested Freetown slums with inadequate safe water, sanitation and hygiene were the worst affected
    Congested Freetown slums with inadequate safe water, sanitation and hygiene were the worst affected
  • Only 12.8 percent of Sierra Leone’s 5.5 million people have access to proper sanitation and 42.9 percent do not have access to clean drinking water; 28.9 percent defecate in the open
    Only 12.8 percent of Sierra Leone’s 5.5 million people have access to proper sanitation and 42.9 percent do not have access to clean drinking water; 28.9 percent defecate in the open
  • Robust intervention by relief groups, including extensive information dissemination helped control the spread of cholera
    Robust intervention by relief groups, including extensive information dissemination helped control the spread of cholera
  • Health experts say the outbreak is expected to last a few more weeks and they are setting up preparations in case of another epidemic in the coming year
    Health experts say the outbreak is expected to last a few more weeks and they are setting up preparations in case of another epidemic in the coming year
  • People at a pro- Alpha Condé rally in the capital Conakry, 29 September 2012. The sign reads: "Thank you to President Prof. Alpha Condé for the cancellation of the debt burden
  • A doner stand in the Turkish economic capital, Istanbul
  • Kachin - Still on the run (FILM ONLY - use image 201210251349290601 for reports)
  • International Court of Justice in The Hague
    The International Court of Justice in The Hague (file photo)
  • A recent returnee family in Jaffna District, northern Sri Lanka
  • Following months of no rain, officials inspect a dried out river bed that connects to the Mamaduwa tank in Vavuniya District
  • Fishsellers from Gao in northern Mali, who fled south to Mopti as they were barred from selling fish on the streets by Islamist groups who say women cannot work in public spaces
  • A child on the streets of Blikkiesdorp, near Cape Town, South Africa
  • Ok Tedi cooper mine in Papua New Guinea
    Ok Tedi's mine
  • Members of the southern movement (Hirak) raise the separatist flag of South Yemen
  • A child receives one of three monthly doses of Fansidar, a combination anti-malarial therapy that has been rolled out July to October 2012 to prevent malaria on a mass scale in Koutiala Mali as a pilot project by MSF
  • Subsistence farmer Nur Banu, 70, a resident of Chittagong District, says she would never leave her cow behind if there was a cyclone. Residents in Bangladesh coastal communities would like to see the construction of shelters that could provide some kind o
  • Planted between rows of maize, gliricidia adds nitrogen to soil
    Planted between rows of maize, gliricidia adds nitrogen to soil
  • Gliricidia helps maize grow without fertilizer
    Gliricidia helps maize grow without fertilizer
  • Around 35 percent of child deaths is caused by malnutrition in Sierra Leone
  • Koran, Qu'ran
    Reading between the lines
  • Independence day was celebrated in Swat on 14 of August
  • A young boy looks to the camera from his classroom in Chittagong, southeastern Bangladesh
  • The offices of the Tanzanian Association in Athens after being smashed up by a racist mob. Such incidents have become increasingly common as Greece’s financial crisis has deepened
  • Juveniles in a police cell in a Sierra Leone, where women are being detained for owing debt
  • New CEO of South Africa's National AIDS Council Dr Fareed Abdullah
    Tough road ahead
  • Generic pic on child sexual abuse
  • Since 2010, about 300 undocumented migrants have entered Greece each day via its land border with Turkey. In response, a 12.5km fence has been raised and 2,000 more police deployed
  • Greece’s deepening financial crisis has been accompanied by a rise in racist attacks against migrants
    Greece’s deepening financial crisis has been accompanied by a rise in racist attacks against migrants
  • Women with a dug-out canoe in front of their flooded homes in Toru-Orua in Sagbama local government area of Bayelsa state , September 2012. The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, estimates 1.3 million Nigerians were displaced by floods this year,
    Women with a dug-out canoe in front of their flooded homes in Toru-Orua in Sagbama local government area of Bayelsa state, Nigeria
  • Members of MUJAO in Gao, August 2012

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