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  • Toukra camp on the outskirts of Chad’s capital N’Djamena is home to more than 6,000 people whose houses crumbled under heavy flooding in 2012
    Toukra camp on the outskirts of Chad’s capital N’Djamena is home to more than 6,000 people whose houses crumbled under heavy flooding in 2012 (Jan 2013)
  • An elderly woman at the door of her tent in a camp set up to host thousands of Chadians displaced by huge floods in the capital N’Djamena in 2012
    An elderly woman at the door of her tent in a camp set up to host thousands of Chadians displaced by huge floods in the capital N’Djamena in 2012 (Jan 2013)
  • A child walks across a road at Srah Po, a resettlement site in Kandal Province, where evictees from Phnom Penh's Borei Keila community are living, near Oudong mountain in Kandal province in February 2013
  • Tyres burn during a protest by residents from Phnom Penh's Boeung Kak lake area. Forced evictions are a major problem in the area
  • Sabah State, Malaysia
    Scorned sultan heads west
  • Villawood Hunger Strikers
    Chinese asylum seekers at Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Australia went on a hunger strike to protest their deportation back to China where they said they would face severe persecution
  • An iPhone fitted with a glass lens can detect parasitic worms in stool samples
  • A nurse administers a routine vaccine to a baby at a primary health care clinic in Kano
  • A nurse at a hospital in Goroka, the provincial capital of PNG's Eastern Highlands Province
  • Jacinta Edson, 55, a pediatric nurse, outside the Asaro Health Centre in PNG's Eastern Highlands Province. In less than 10 years, 50 percent of the work force in the health sector will either have retired or moved elsewhere
  • Thierry Abolon Madiatu fled the conflict in the Democratic Republic of a Congo (DRC) in 1998 and arrived in South Africa as a refugee. Despite the challenge of asylum in a foreign country, he has managed to build a business: starting out as a fruit vendor
  • Chadian migrant workers deplore detention then deportation from Libya
  • A derelict and unfinished government housing project in Dzivarasekwa Extension, a low-income suburb west of Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare
    A derelict and unfinished government housing project in Dzivarasekwa Extension, a low-income suburb west of Harare
  • There are no longer houses on the upper reaches of Merapi but some former residents continue to work there, providing services for tourists. The area was badly affected by the eruption of Mount Merapi in late 2010
  • A Merapi resident collects tall grass to feed livestock. Part of what kept people living on Merapi’s dangerous higher altitudes for so long is its rich volcanic soil, which is ideal for agriculture. Areas that were turned to ash by the eruption in late
  • Fish pens on Lesotho’s Katse dam used to farm rainbow trout
  • A yellow fish caught in Lesotho’s Katse dam, which is also the site of aquaculture projects for Rainbow trout
  • hopping at the Johannesburg Market, the largest fresh produce market in Africa
  • Thierry Abolon Madiatu fled the conflict in the Democratic Republic of a Congo (DRC) in 1998 and arrived in South Africa as a refugee. Despite the challenge of asylum in a foreign country, he has managed to build a business: starting out as a fruit vendor
  • Johannesburg city. For generic use
  • Sudan GBV
  • Sudan GBV
  • Farmer Caroline Motholo, 54, leased her farming plot to a Lesotho agricultural association and says her life has improved for the better
  • A solar panel used to charge cellphones in the village of Hasephapo-Taunyane, near the Lesotho highland town of Ha Lajone
  • A wheat field in the Lesotho highlands near Ha Lajone
  • Sorghum being grown near Maputsoe is a town located in Lesotho’s northern district of Leribe
  • Maize, the staple, being grown near the Lesotho highlands’ town of Thaba-Tseka, the capital of Thaba-Tseka district
  • A family from Davao that is staying put post-floods -- illegally
  • MAC (Movement of Action for Change cadres) cadres
  • Destruction caused by an attack on the village of Mashaki in Masisi territory, DRC
  • Mechanical digger in a quarry near John Obey, Freetown, Sierra Leone (Feb 2013)
    Mechanical digger in a quarry near John Obey, Freetown, Sierra Leone (Feb 2013)
  • A young girl at Adonkia quarry, Freetown, Sierra Leone (Feb 2013)
    A young girl at Adonkia quarry, Freetown, Sierra Leone (Feb 2013)

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