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  • A view of the shelled out remains of a housing block in an outlying district of Mogadishu is pictured on March 7, 2012. Mogadishu has been in a near constant state of conflict since President Said Barré was overthown in 1991. African Union forces operati
    Shelled out remains of a housing block in an outlying district of Mogadishu (March 2012)
  • Lord's Resistance Army commander  Caesar Acellam Otto addresses journalists shortly after his capture by Ugandan soldiers in the Central African Republic
  • African asylum seekers sleeping in a park in Tel Aviv
  • African asylum seekers sleeping in a park in Tel Aviv
  • African asylum seekers sleeping in a park in Tel Aviv
  • African migrants eating in a park in Tel Aviv
  • A scene in Vientiane, the Lao capital. With 8 percent annual economic growth, the city is modernising rapidly
  • A scene at a local market in Vientiane. GNI per capita in Laos is $1,040, the 2012 LDC graduation threshold was $1,190
  • Children whose mothers cannot prove the father's identity struggle to access citizenship documents. Morang District, Nepal
  • Rice prices in Cote d'Ivoire are still very high, but government attempts to fix prices are being resisted by traders. Imported rice at the port in Abidjan
  • Urban agriculture forms close to a fifth of the world's food production
  • Congolese refugees at the Nkamira Transit Centre, western Rwanda. Clashes between troops allied to former Congolese rebel leader, and now army General Bosco Ntaganda, and the Congolese army in North Kivu Province, have led to the displacement of thousands
  • Congolese refugees at the Nkamira Transit Centre, western Rwanda. Clashes between troops allied to former Congolese rebel leader, and now army General Bosco Ntaganda, and the Congolese army in North Kivu Province, have led to the displacement of thousands
  • Mother and child
    Une nouvelle dont on peut se réjouir
  • A little girl in Zamfara State is living with the long term effects of lead poisoning including blindness and convulsions. Thousands of children in Zamfara have been lead-poisoned as a result of unsafe artisanal mining practices over the past two years
    This lead-poisoned Zamfara State girl is now blind and suffers convulsions as a result
  • An artisanal gold-miner crushing stones to extract the gold in Zamfara State, northern Nigeria. Thousands of children have been lead-poisoned as a result of unsafe artisanal mining practices over the past two years
    An artisanal miner crushes stones to extract gold
  • Maize seed. For generic use
    Race is on to find ways to be able to produce enough
  • A mother and her child peek out the window UNICEF-supported Nutritional Therapeutic Unit. Bossangoa, north-western CAR
  • Mothers practice Kangaroo Mother Care at Bwaila Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi
  • Lydia Wetsi is a trainee at NGO Medicine on the Move in Ghana. The NGO trains community health workers to fly planes so they can share health messages and provide health care to remote communities living around Lake Volta in the north
  • Lydia Wetsi is a trainee at NGO Medicine on the Move in Ghana. The NGO trains community health workers to fly planes so they can share health messages and provide health care to remote communities living around Lake Volta in the north
  • Much small-scale mining is unregulated, offering little security for the miners
  • A young widow with HIV in Nepal's western Dailekh District. Assistance for these women remains limited
  • Much small-scale mining is unregulated, offering little security for the miners
    Artisanal diamond miners at work in an open-pit mine in Koidu, eastern Sierra Leone (May 2012)
  • Conditions are tough, with miners working long days waist deep in muddy water as they sift through pans of gravel (May 2012)
    Artisanal diamond miners at work in an open-pit mine in Koidu, eastern Sierra Leone (May 2012)
  • Unemployment is rife in Koidu, with little of the diamond revenue filtering down to local residents
    A diamond shop in Koidu, eastern Sierra Leone (May 2012)
  • The diamond mines of Koidu were the focal point of several RUF operations supported by Charles Taylor
    Artisanal diamond miners at work in an open-pit mine in Koidu, eastern Sierra Leone (May 2012)
  • Artisanal diamond miners at work in an open-pit mine in Koidu, eastern Sierra Leone (May 2012)
    Artisanal diamond miners at work in an open-pit mine in Koidu, eastern Sierra Leone (May 2012)
  • Liberia’s 2011 elections passed off largely peacefully
    Election billboard in Bolahun, northern Liberia (May 2012)
  • War-time graffiti left by LURD (Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy) rebels in Bolahun, northern Liberia
    War-time graffiti left by LURD (Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy) rebels in Bolahun, northern Liberia (May 2012)
  • Bullet-scarred buildings in Zorzor act as reminders of the conflict which engulfed the country for over a decade
    Resident of Zorzor in Lofa County, Liberia (May 2012)
  • Residents of Zorzor in Lofa County, Liberia, sit on the doorstep of a home damaged during the second Liberian civil war (1999-2003)
    Residents of Zorzor in Lofa County, Liberia, sit on the doorstep of a home damaged during the second Liberian civil war (1999-2003)

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