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  • A member of the civilian joint task force in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria. Civilians started forming vigilante groups in May to try to crack down on Boko Haram killings. Now the government has welcomed them as part of a more official effort to crack do
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  • An opulent-looking house in al-Mehdiya village, in North Sinai, less than five kilometers from the border with Gaza. It belongs to Youssef Eid El Menai, said to be a human trafficker, who local residents say has fled the area. The Egyptian army first set
    This luxury home, said to belong to a human trafficker, was shot at by tanks, neighbours said.
  • A snake bite awareness poster in Myanmar. The country has a particularly high rate of snake bite fatalities in the region
  • Day Wi, 14, was walking barefoot through a palm forest in Myanmar’s southern Mon State when she was bitten by a Russell’s viper, one of the most dangerous snakes in Asia Myanmar has a particularly high rate of snakebite fatalities in the region
  • An illustration of Syrian refugees in a barbers shop
    Syrian refugees drawn by artist Olivier Kugler
  • Members of a civilian joint task force in Maiduguri in November 2013. CJTFs have been set up all over the city to identify and turn in Boko Haram suspects but some have beaten up or killed suspects themselves, and people say the CJTF's actions are making
    Members of the civilian joint task force in Maiduguri.
  • Rebeka (not her real name) is among a small but growing number of women in Madagascar who are no longer willing to put up with violence from their partners
    Rebeka: Any man who sees those cells will never hit his wife again
  • Sinai: Destined to Suffer?
  • Egypt map
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  • Kenya Red Cross respond after overnight inter-clan clashes in Moyale, Marsabit county.
    Kenya Red Cross personnel respond after inter-clan clashes in Moyale, Marsabit County
  • A home in al-Mehdiya village in Egypt's North Sinai governorate, destroyed by the army during counter-terrorism operations in the fall of 2013. The residents of this home - a woman and her nine-year-old daughter - barely had time to flee. They lived 100m
    The remains of Marwa’s home
  • Women and a child sit in the shade amid the rubble of a home in Rafah town in Egypt's North Sinai governorate. The building was destroyed in October during the security forces' counter-terrorism campaign against militants. (Photo taken by Sophie Anmuth in
  • In the foreground of al-Mehdiya village, in Egypt's North Sinai governorate, sits a former olive tree orchard, destroyed in the fall of 2013 during security forces' campaign against militants in the area. (Photo taken by Sophie Anmuth in October 2013 - BU
  • A Bedouin man walks through the desert in South Sinai, Egypt.
    Un Bédouin traversant le désert du Sud-Sinaï
  • The home of Shadi el-Menai, founder of the jihadist group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, in al-Mehdiya Village in Egypt's North Sinai governorate. The army destroyed his home in the fall of 2013 during its months-long campaign against militants in the restive Sina
  • A Bedouin man in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula (2007)
    Un Bédouin dans le Sinaï
  • Members of the Philippine military load relief goods at Tacloban's airport
    Members of the Philippine military load relief goods in Tacloban
  • “We want to resume classes. We just don’t know how,” Noel Lombres, principle of the Marabut Central Elementary School in Samar Province, where 468 children aged 5 to 11 years of age once attended classes. Education was badly shaken by Typhoon Haiyan
  • A typhoon-damaged school in Palo, Leyte Province. Thousands of classrooms were damaged or destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan which struck the central Philippines on 8 November, 2013
  • Bamboo is brought in by boat on Olotayan Island off the coast of Panay on 28 November 2013
    Le bambou
  • The view from a damaged home in al-Mehdiya village, North Sinai governorate. Egyptian security forces have led a months-long military campaign in the area to root out increased militancy. (Photo taken October 2013)
  • The Supreme Court building in Islamabad.
    The supreme court – struggling for supremacy
  • Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, 85, from Jalalpur, Punjab, holds up pictures of his son, 18 year old Muhammad Zubair, who was picked up by security forces on 9/11/2009. “He was our only child, and was just married,” Khan said. “At least tell us what he was c
    Muhammad Ibrahim Khan (centre) says he does not even know if his son is alive or dead
  • Nelson Mandela
    Nelson Mandela put on an HIV-Positive T-shirt during a visit to an HIV programme in Khayelitsha in December 2002
  • A resident of the typhoon-affected town of Palo works to repair his home one month after Typhoon Haiyan, which struck the central Philippines on 8 November 2013
  • A mother bathes her child at a hospital in Bossangoa, where medical staff are treating an overwhelming number of children for malnutrition, malaria and anaemia.
  • Children wait for water at a school where Muslims have sought shelter from increasingly brutal sectarian violence that has pitted largely Christian self-defence groups against Muslim rebels turned state forces and the wider community by association.
  • Elsa Raganas, 43, a single mother of four, lost her home to Typhoon Haiyan in the town of Palo on 8 November, 2013
  • One month after Typhoon Haiyan struck the central Philippines on 8 November, 2013, Alberta Hijanda, 55, a resident of Palo, has yet to receive the shelter assistance she needs. She currently shares living space with 12 other people under a single tarpauli
  • Officials hope the recent introduction of simplified, lifelong ARV treatment for pregnant women will help to cut transmission rates and reduce maternal deaths.
    Officials hope the recent introduction of simplified, lifelong ARV treatment for pregnant women will help to cut transmission rates and reduce maternal deaths.
  • Woman and child after Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in Tacloban
  • A deserted village 4km south of Jowhar in Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region. Flooding since late August has left thousands of people in the region homeless

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