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  • The Lebanese army deploys at the entrance to Jebel Mohsen neighbourhood in the northern city of Tripoli in April 2014 as part of a security plan to bring sectarian violence in Tripoli to an end.
  • A soldier of the Somalia National Army at a military base in Baidoa. The soldier is dressed in civilian clothes as there are not enough uniforms for the force.
  • A Somalia National Army soldier on guard at the entrance of the army's base in Baidoa
  • Ethiopian soldiers of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in Baidoa pass the time playing a board game
  • The AMISOM base in Baidoa, Somalia
  • A surgeon at the field hospital in Baidoa treats the blast wounds of an Ethiopian soldier, serving with AMISOM
  • Militants for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) caused flooding in the Iraqi city of Abu Ghraib when they forced the closure of a major dam on the Euphrates river, destroying villages and farms across a 200sqkm area west of Baghdad, leaving
  • A teacher at Doyaba transit camp home to 17,000 Chadian returnees who fled violence in CAR. She helped set up an informal school with 3,200 children currently enrolled.
  • Ella Mubayiwa, 60, returned from England to claim a farm during Zimbabwe’s 2000 land redistribution programme
  • A group of children playing at the Jamaikaung IDP camp outside Myitkyina in northern Kachin State. Some 100,000 remain displaced following the collapse of a a 17-year-old ceasefire betweent government forces and the Kachin Independence Army.
  • Three years on, Yaw Htang, a father of three, is just one of thousands of Kachin IDPs feeling a sense of hopelessness. According to the UN, some 100,000 people remain displaced following the collapse of a 17-year-old ceasefire between government forces an
  • An Iraqi boy receives assistance from the World Food Program (WFP) after flooding in Abu Ghraib in April 2014, caused by militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) who took control of the Nuaimiyah dam.
  • Ammunition dumped on a beach in the Somali capital Mogadishu
  • In the capital Freetown, once known as 'the darkest city in the world' blackouts are a part of life.
    Sierra Leone is unable to provide adequate electricity to its citizens.
  • Sierra Leone is increasingly looking to solar to solve it's energy woes.
    Sierra Leone is increasingly looking to solar to generate electricity.
  • The lights shine for 8 hours a day, and cut down hugely on energy bills.
    They can be on for up to eight hours a day, and help reduce electricity bills.
  • Mr Benga, also from Tombo, bought two to power his children's bedrooms and other communal areas.
    This home in Tombo also uses such lights.
  • Aminatta uses an Indigo, pay-as-you-go solar powered light to run her bread and fizzy drinks business in Tombo village.
    Aminatta uses an Indigo pay-as-you-go solar powered light to run her shop in Tombo village.
  • But generators frequently break down, and are well beyond the price range of most.
    which often break down.
  • People wanting to charge their mobile phones pay 1,000 leones (23 US cents) to the lucky few who own generators…
    People wanting to charge their mobile phones pay 1,000 leones (23 US cents) to the lucky few who own generators…
  • Mariama relies on a plastic light in a neighbouring shop to run her street-food business in Freetown.
    Mariama relies on a plastic light in a neighbouring shop to run her street-food business in Freetown.
  • A fisherman in John Obey village, which has no grid electricity despite being just an hour from the capital.
    A fisherman in John Obey village, which has no grid electricity despite being just an hour from the capital.
  • A neighborhood in Freetown. Sierra Leone has long been unable to provide adequate electricity to it's citizens
    In the capital Freetown, once known as “the darkest city in the world”, power cuts are common.
  • Termites inside of a mound
  • A volunteer teacher holds a class under the trees in Doyaba transit camp in Sarh, southern Chad, May 2014. Some 3,200 primary and pre-primary school age children are enrolled in the school, set up by displaced teachers from CAR.
  • An ethnic Hmong woman in Ban Houythao, northern Luang Prabang, which still practices shifted cultivation on their traditional lands. The Hmong migrated from southern China in the nineteenth century to the mountainous areas of Laos, Vietnam and Thailand
  • An ethnic Hmong woman in Ban Houythao, northern Luang Prabang, which still practices shifted cultivation on their traditional lands. The Hmong are an Asian ethnic group from the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand
  • A policeman patrols the area around Mugunga IDP camp during the TSC field visit near Goma
  • Cambodia and Australia flags
  • Ou Virak, chairman of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights
  • SINS OF THE FATHERS - film use only
  • SINS OF THE FATHERS - film use only

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