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  • We see the back of a man, he faces the horizon. The sky is full of dark smoke.
    Smoke rises over Khartoum on 16 April as fighting breaks out between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese army. The clashes risk escalating into a full-scale civil war.
  • Two men are on a canoe. The water around them is polluted with oil resulting from a recent spill an oil spill in Santa Barbara, Nembe Bayelsa, Nigeria, November 25, 2021.
    The majority of oil spills have been in Nigeria's Bayelsa state. This spill in the state's Santa Barbara oilfields, photographed here in November 2021, left the area heavily polluted.
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  • A graphic illustration showing coins falling into a single hand that is cupped.
  • Graphic for season 3, episode 12 of Rethinking Humanitarianism podcast featuring a black and white image of Chef José Andrés.
  • Graphic for season 3, episode 12 of Rethinking Humanitarianism podcast featuring a black and white image of Chef José Andrés.
  • Effects of conflict and violence in Colombia's Chocó department
  • A map showing the Chocó region in Colombia
  • A fisher prepares nets.
    A fisherman in Pie de Pató, a predominantly Afro-Colombian riverside town, prepares his nets for the day’s work as his children play. Because of forced confinement, Chocó residents often spend weeks unable to provide for themselves.
  • A wide scene of the water and surrounding verdant hills
    Santa Catalina de Catrú, a village of roughly 1,000 mostly Indigenous Emberá people, lies six hours by boat from Istmina, the closest town of any size in Colombia's remote northwestern province of Chocó.
  • Portrait of Depaul Bakulu, a 28-year-old volunteer at Goma Actif.
  • Graphic of a cardboard box with 4 banners. One says accountability, one says people-centred, one says feedback and another says engagement.
  • Five women and two children are pictures walking through Khanke Camp. Behind them we see tents all labeled with the UNHCR logo.
    Displaced Yazidi women who were forced to flee Sinjar at Khanke camp, on the outskirts of Iraq's Dohuk province, in 2019.
  • ICRC Director-General Robert Mardini speaks at a 2022 press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine.
    ICRC Director-General Robert Mardini speaks at a 2022 press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine.
  • A group of people in silhouette walk on an airport runway, one is lit by the sun.
    Poverty, violence, and the lack of justice are factors prompting more Guatemalan women and girls to make the risky journey to the United States each year.
  • Three women and one child walk away from a plane on a runway.
    GBV is one factor driving Guatemalan women to migrate to the US in the hope of finding better lives. But the route is particularly dangerous for women and girls. Here, a group of 119 women and children are being deported back from the US in January 2023.
  • An aerial view of people marching on the street en masse.
    Amid widespread public outrage over the fire and alleged abuse at the children's shelter, activists erected a memorial in the capital’s central plaza that still stands today.
  • Purple crosses stand in front of people holding signs in solidarity.
    A fire in 2017 at the Virgen de la Asunción children's shelter in Guatemala City claimed the lives of 41 girls. Family members and survivors – several of whom allege prior abuse at the facility – are still looking for justice.
  • A black and white drawing of a paper boat navigating a labyrinth.
  • Bora Bahati Willy sits inside his makeshift shelter in Bulengo displacement camp. His family fled an M23 offensive on the village of Kitchanga in Masisi territory.
  • A medium shot of Christiane Mukankusi Bashoboye looks into the distance. She is standing in her makeshift home in Bulengo displacement camp. Bashoboye fled an offensive by the M23 armed group in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • Rosette Riziki Rutare sits with her sewing machine in a displacement camp in the eastern city of Goma.
    Rosette Riziki Rutare lugged her sewing machine as she escaped M23 rebels in the hope she could avoid begging while living in a displacement camp in the eastern city of Goma.
  • A group of men stand over a pile of debris in Syria after the February 2023 earhquake.
    What does earthquake recovery look like in a place already ravaged by war?
  • Illustration by Ramiro Zardoya. There are seven faceless people walking across interlinked tight ropes.
  • Women walk through Syria's al-Hol displacement camp.
    Women walk through Syria's al-Hol displacement camp in April 2019. More than 56,000 people remain here and at another camp called Roj. Two thirds are children, mostly under the age of 12.
  • We see the torso of a woman sat in an armchair.
    A woman who says she was sexually abused by a doctor involved in the Ebola response is pictured in Beni, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, in August 2020.
  • Person with hazmat suit walking in front of a WHO logo.
    WHO was one of the biggest organisations involved in the 10th Ebola outbreak response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was also one of the main ones to face allegations of sex abuse by its workers.
  • Inside a collective shelter for internally displaced people in the western Ukrainian city of Turka. There are around 7,200 such shelters in Ukraine, but many are ill-equipped to meet people’s long-term needs.
    Inside a collective shelter for internally displaced people in the western Ukrainian city of Turka. There are around 7,200 such shelters in Ukraine, but many are ill-equipped to meet people’s long-term needs.
  • Iuliia (left), a 33-year-old woman with cerebral palsy, was injured in a missile strike on the village of Novosofiivka in December 2022, and her mother Katerina.
    Iuliia (left), a 33-year-old woman with cerebral palsy, was injured in a missile strike on the village of Novosofiivka in December 2022, and her mother Katerina.
  • Liudmyla stands in front of her home – damaged in a missile strike on 6 December 2022 – in Kupriianivka, a village near the eastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia.
    Liudmyla stands in front of her home – damaged in a missile strike on 6 December 2022 – in Kupriianivka, a village near the eastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia.
  • A health worker disinfects water at a clinic in southern Malawi, in November 2022.
    A health worker disinfects water at a clinic in southern Malawi, in November 2022. A cholera outbreak has claimed over 1,600 lives in the country over the past year.
  • A woman walks past a barricade amid gang violence in Port-au-Prince on 3 March 2023..
    A woman walks past a barricade amid gang violence in Port-au-Prince on 3 March 2023. As the humanitarian situation deteriorates, Haitians are desperate for help.

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