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  • UNHCR is working with partners Solidarités International and Intermon Oxfam (Spain) to construct latrines in M’bera, a refugee camp with 80,000 residents near Mauritania’s border with Mali
    Materials used in construction of latrines in M’bera, a refugee camp with 80,000 residents near Mauritania’s border with Mali
  • Intermon Oxfam is employing 20 masons and 15 labourers to construct some 14 latrine-shower units a day in M’bera, a refugee camp with 80,000 residents near Mauritania’s border with Mali
    Construction of latrine-shower units in M’bera, a refugee camp with 80,000 residents near Mauritania’s border with Mali
  • A refugee sewing a bag which will be filled with sand and used to line latrines in M’bera, a refugee camp with 80,000 residents near Mauritania’s border with Mali
    A refugee sewing a bag which will be filled with sand and used to line latrines in M’bera, a refugee camp with 80,000 residents near Mauritania’s border with Mali
  • UNHCR is working with partners Solidarités International and Intermon Oxfam (Spain) to construct latrines in M’bera, a refugee camp with 80,000 residents near Mauritania’s border with Mali
    Materials used in construction of latrines in M’bera, a refugee camp with 80,000 residents near Mauritania’s border with Mali
  • UNHCR is working with partners Solidarités International and Intermon Oxfam (Spain) to construct latrines in M’bera, a refugee camp with 80,000 residents near Mauritania’s border with Mali
    Construction of latrines in M’bera, a refugee camp with 80,000 residents near Mauritania’s border with Mali
  • A group of former shabu users at the Yakita drug rehabilitation centre in Bogor, Indonesia. Crystal methamphetamine - known locally as “shabu” - is a major problem in Indonesia
  • Boyke, 37, a recovering shabu addict recalls the horrors of this addiction. Shabu - or crystal methamphetamine - is a major problem in Indonesia
  • Cashews are an economic mainstay in Senegal's southern Casamance region. Cashew producers near to Ziguinchor, the capital
  • Some of the Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad have been there for close to a decade after fleeing violence in Darfur
  • Some of the Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad have been there for close to a decade after fleeing violence in Darfur
  • Doctors at Juba Teaching Hospital perform a Caesarean section on a pregnant woman
    Doctors at Juba Teaching Hospital perform a Caesarean section on a pregnant woman (July 2012)
  • Hundreds of Sri Lankans took to boats to reach Australia in the first half of 2012
  • Boats like these are commonly used by asylum seekers out of Sri Lanka to reach Australia. The Australian Government has reported a sharp increase in the number of Sri Lankans arriving in  Australia in the first half of 2012
  • An HIV counsellor at a Primary Health Care Centre in Juba explains to a pregnant mother her HIV-negative test results
    An HIV counselor at a Primary Health Care centre in Juba explains to a pregnant mother her HIV-negative test results (July 2012)
  • Local trainee midwives support a woman as she struggles to reach the labour ward at Juba Teaching Hospital. Many women come in for emergency treatment too late
    Local trainee midwives support a woman as she struggles to reach the labour ward at Juba Teaching Hospital (July 2012)
  • Doctors perform a Caesarean section at Juba Teaching Hospital. The woman survived the operation, but unfortunately the baby did not
    Doctors perform a Caesarean section at Juba Teaching Hospital (July 2012)
  • A few countries produce the bulk of the world's staple cereals: Major exporters’ shares of global maize and wheat exports, 2008
  • A few countries produce the bulk of the world's staple grains: Major exporters’ shares of rice exports, 2008
  • South Sudan nurses and midwives march in Juba to mark International Day of the Nurse, May 2012
    South Sudan nurses and midwives march in Juba to mark International Day of the Nurse (May 2012)
  • A young woman with her newborn baby after undergoing a Caesarean operation at Juba Teaching Hospital, South Sudan
    A young woman with her newborn baby after undergoing a Caesarean operation at Juba Teaching Hospital, South Sudan (July 2012)
  • A new birth at Juba Teaching Hospital, South Sudan
    A new birth at Juba Teaching Hospital, South Sudan (July 2012)
  • A pregnant woman leaves a Juba health clinic after a check-up. A shortage of trained health workers and a lack of transport into the main towns has contributed to South Sudan having the highest maternal mortality rate in the world
    A pregnant woman leaves a Juba health clinic after a check-up (July 2012)
  • Abu Bakr Huuti Othman, a Somali labourer who lives in Salloum camp
  • Population fleeing their villages due to fighting between FARDC and rebels groups, Sake North Kivu the 30th of April 2012
  • Population fleeing their villages due to fighting between FARDC and rebels groups, Sake North Kivu the 30th of April 2012
  • A former LTTE fighter publicly voices his concern over a government decision to suspend idendity cards issued by IOM. More than than three years after the war ended, more than  11,000 former combatants have been rehabilitated by the government
  • The Congolese refugees on arrival at Nyakabande transit centre, Kisoro district in May 2012. Thousands of the refugees have again crossed into Uganda following renewed fighting that broke out on 6 July 2012 in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Kivu pr
    The Congolese refugees on arrival at Nyakabande transit centre, Kisoro district (May 2012)
  • The aeral view of Nyakabande transit centre camp, which is hosting thousands of Congolese refugees who are fleeing fighting in eastern DRC, Kivu province
  • A young street vender in Jaffna. Despite high levels of food insecurity, fruit and vegetables are plentiful in the city
  • An ensemble of plastic containers storing the available food a recent returnee family has in Jaffna. Of the five northern districts, Jaffna is the most food insecure
  • “People simply don’t have the money they need,” said Rashkarn Marthraja, a local butcher in Jaffna. Of the thousands of people food insecure across Sri Lanka's north, most are in Jaffna District
  • Parameswary Rasakumar, 32, a resident of Jaffna District is struggling with food insecurity more than three years after the war was officially declared over

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