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  • Opposition protesters in Dakar, Senegal
    Opposition protesters in Dakar, Senegal
  • President Abdoulaye Wade meets his supporters at an awards ceremony in late January, held in the new Chinese-built Grand National Theatre
    President Abdoulaye Wade meets his supporters at an awards ceremony in late January, held in the new Chinese-built Grand National Theatre (Feb 2012)
  • A tear gas canister is thrown into a group of demonstrators in Dakar, Senegal
    A tear gas canister is thrown into a group of demonstrators in Dakar, Senegal
  • Protesters from the Y’en a Marre (Enough is Enough) opposition group demonstrate in Dakar, Senegal, against a third term for President Abdoulaye Wade (March 2012)
    Protesters from the Y’en a Marre (Enough is Enough) opposition group demonstrate in Dakar, Senegal, against a third term for President Abdoulaye Wade (March 2012)
  • Upper arm measurements at Merlin run Boma hospital, Jonglei state Malnutiriton is a major contributory factor to the prevalence and mortality of neglected tropical diseases in South Sudan
    Upper arm measurements at Merlin run Boma hospital, Jonglei state (Feb 2012)
  • Elizeous Suror, Sleeping sickness program manager for MERLIN examines newly diagnosed patient Morgan Michael at Nimule hospital, Eastern Equatoria
  • Besmillah’s two-year old daughter, Nazia, looks out from their mud-hut, which doesn't have a door in the capital, Kabul
  • Afghan refugees, living just across the border in Pakistan, search for work at the border by offering to take luggage across.
  • Aminullah and his children harvest carrots in Saracha village, outside of Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan. Saracha is part of a pilot project by UNHCR to invest development aid in areas of high returns of refugees previously living in Pakistan, as a way of
    Harvesting carrots in Saracha village, outside of Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan(Feb 2012)
  • Afghan refugees head home from Pakistan, which has appeared less willing to host them in recent years
  • Jawad, 15, sleeps on a cart in a transit centre in Islam Qala, on the Afghan-Iranian border. He was separated from his guardian, his elder brother, and deported back to Afghanistan by Iranian officials
  • Four-year-old Henintsoa Rakotoarimanana’s mother, Juliette Raharimanana, receives training at the Maharodaza Nutrition Centre in Manjakandriana on how to improve her son’s diet
  • Vulnerable Afghan returnees (refugees who recently returned from Pakistan) line up to receive "winterization" packages to help them cope with the harsh winter at a distribution point in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan
  • Mehdi, 15, is an Afghan migrant who says he was beaten by Iran police and deported, unaccompanied, back to Afghanistan
  • Ihsanullah Kotwal, who fled Afghanistan in the 1980s during the Soviet invasion, returned from Pakistan in 2009, but says there are few job opportunities in his village in Nangarhar Province, eastern Afghanistan
    Villager in Nangarhar Province, eastern Afghanistan (Feb 2012)
  • Amina Sala (52) had been suffering from years of repeat trachoma infection, which has caused her eyelids to rotate inward. She arrived at her town's Zithromax distribution and was referred to a local health center to receive the free trichiasis surgery th
  • A sewage canal built in Saracha village, outside of Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan, to improve hygiene and sanitation. The village is part of a pilot project by UNHCR to focus development aid in areas of high returns of refugees from Pakistan, to help the
  • Baswra, an Afghan widow, begs for help outside an aid distribution point in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan. The mother of six returned from a refugee camp in Pakistan in 2002, but ten years later, still has no land or income
  • Vulnerable Afghan returnees (refugees who have returned from Pakistan) line up for "winterization" assistance to help them cope with the harsh winter, in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan
  • Shamsul Islam, 35, a rickshaw puller in Mirpur sub district in Dhaka
  • Salima, right, says she has a chronic cough, a blocked nose, and shortness of breath, due to the cold weather. She lives in Arab Aqsai village in Afghanistan’s northern Faryab Province, and can’t afford a stove to heat her home
    Residents of Arab Aqsai village in Afghanistan’s northern Faryab Province (Feb 2012)
  • This home is part of a Majbooraba, an informal settlement of Afghan returnees (refugees who returned from Pakistan over the years) in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan. Many returnees fail to re-integrate upon their return and require assistance.
  • An Afghan mother and her daughter begging on a street in Kabul
    An Afghan mother and her daughter begging on a street in Kabul (Feb 2012)
  • A beggar on a busy road in Kabul
    A beggar on a busy road in Kabul (Feb 2012)
  • Afghanistan’s snow-covered mountains
    Afghanistan’s snow-covered mountains (Feb 2012)
  • A new road in Pashtun Kot District in Afghanistan’s northern Faryab Province. Local villagers, who depend on rain for agriculture, welcome the snow after years of dry weather
    A new road in Pashtun Kot District in Afghanistan’s northern Faryab Province. Local villagers, who depend on rain for agriculture, welcome the snow after years of dry weather (Feb 2012)
  • A returnee family keeps warm by burning plastic waste in their Bukhari (wood heater) in their mud-hut east of Kabul, Afghanistan
    A returnee family keeps warm by burning plastic waste in their Bukhari (wood heater) in their mud-hut east of Kabul, Afghanistan (Feb 2012)
  • One of many informal settlement areas for IDPs in Kabul
    One of many informal settlement areas for IDPs in Kabul
  • A family at an informal settlement for IDPs in Kabul
    A family at an informal settlement for IDPs in Kabul
  • IDP children at an informal settlement area inside Kabul, Afghanistan
    IDP children at an informal settlement area inside Kabul, Afghanistan
  • A woman waits to get some food assistance near an informal settlement area for IDPs inside Kabul
    A woman at an informal settlement area for IDPs inside Kabul (Feb 2012)
  • Meal of beans and rice for Malian refugees provided by Plan International in the village of Gaoudel, near Ayourou in Niger
    Meal of beans and rice for Malian refugees provided by Plan International in the village of Gaoudel, near Ayourou in Niger (Feb 2012)

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