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  • A farmer spreads fertilizer in his paddy field in Bago District, north of the commercial capital Yangon
    A farmer spreads fertilizer in his paddy field in Bago District, north of the commercial capital Yangon (March 2012)
  • A woman rides a bicycle to work in Myanmar’s second city, Mandalay
    A woman rides a bicycle to work in Myanmar’s second city, Mandalay (March 2012)
  • Houley Dia ran out of food a month ago and is now existing on water. A 60-something-year-old widow, she lives in Houdallah, a village of the Fula ethnic group in southern Mauritania on the border with Senegal. Oxfam is giving cash distributions to the mos
  • Children in Darhkhadra village in Gorgol region, southern Mauritania, where some 700,000 are food-insecure this year country-wide. There are only 15 NGOs in the country able to address nutrition, leaving serious gaps, says UNICEF
  • A girl in a collective vegetable garden in Darkhadra village in Gorgol region, southern Mauritania. Some 700,000 Mauritanians are food-insecure this year due to drought, estimates the UN
    A girl in a collective vegetable garden in Darkhadra village in Gorgol region, southern Mauritania (March 2012)
  • The Bedouins in Umm al-Hieran village, Israel, live several kilometers away from the closest source of clean water and rely on trucks to get their supply
  • Patients at Nakivale refugee health center waiting for treatment. Health workers are overwhelmed with the number of patients especially those with HIV
  • A young Karen child along the Thai-Burmese border looks to the camera. Reaching those in need has not always been easy
    A young Karen child along the Thai-Burmese border (March 2012)
  • An ethnic Karen refugee smiles as others make new homes in the village of El Htu Hat, Myanmar, along the Thai-Burmese border
    An ethnic Karen refugee smiles as others make new homes in the village of El Htu Hat, Myanmar, along the Thai-Burmese border (March 2012)
  • A group of young Burmese men wait to clear immigration at the Friendship Bridge at the Thailand-Border checkpoint in Mae Sot, Thailand. Thousands of men each year migrate to Thailand in search of work
    A group of young Burmese men wait to clear immigration at the Thailand border checkpoint in Mae Sot, Thailand (March 2012)
  • Congolese woman carrying firewood at Nakivale reception centre, Isingiro district, western Uganda
  • A local NGO in Thailand documents the hundreds of political prisoners still behind bars in Myanmar
  • Khin Ohnmar, 44, chairperson, Network for Democracy and Development
  • Mali: Armed conflict and populations movement (updated at 15 Mar 2012) (<a href="http://www.irinnews.org/pdf/Mali_Armed_conflict_and_populations_movement.pdf" target="_blank"><strong><font color=#006699>See larger version of map</font></strong></a>)
  • A woman makes pots at her home in Sagaing District, Myanmar
    A woman makes pots at her home in Sagaing District, Myanmar (March 2012)
  • A woman sells fresh farm produce at Thiri Mingalar market, Yangon
    A woman sells fresh farm produce at Thiri Mingalar market, Yangon (March 2012)
  • Dockers silhouetted against street lights as fog hangs over Yangon before daybreak
    Dockers silhouetted against street lights as fog hangs over Yangon before daybreak (March 2012)
  • Fishmongers await the next fish delivery of fish at a port north of Yangon
    Fishmongers await the next fish delivery of fish at a port north of Yangon (March 2012)
  • Fishermen return to their village near Yangon
    Fishermen return to their village near Yangon (March 2012)
  • A farmer throws a net into a creek in Bago District, Myanmar
    A farmer throws a net into a creek in Bago District, Myanmar (March 2012)
  • A rickshaw driver waits for customers as dusk falls in Yangon
    A rickshaw driver waits for customers as dusk falls in Yangon (March 2012)
  • A woman wearing a traditional wood-based cream to protect her face rides a bicycle to work in Yangon (March 2012)
    A woman wearing a traditional wood-based cream to protect her face rides a bicycle to work in Yangon (March 2012)
  • Women sell onions at a roadside market in Yangon
    Women sell onions at a roadside market in Yangon (March 2012)
  • Father and son prepare to turn in for the night at a riverside hut in a fishing village outside Myanmar’s commercial capital, Yangon
    Father and son prepare to turn in for the night at a riverside hut in a fishing village outside Myanmar’s commercial capital, Yangon (March 2012)
  • A taxi, stuffed with products, arrives in the Jordanian border town of Remtha from Syria. Despite the unrest, trade across the border has continued. On the way back, these taxis sometimes also carry hidden medical supplies to be distributed to those affec
  • Ahmed Almasri, a Syrian refugee/activist in Jordan, sits in a trendy coffeeshop in Amman, where he organizes the illegal smuggling of medical and communications equipment into Syria
  • Women IDPs in a school in Aden. Conditions for displaced women in Jaar are tough
  • South Sudanese children at a protest against Israeli government directive to return home by the end of March
  • Hamid Yussef Bashir with his five children at a camp in Jamam in South Sudan's Upper Nile state
  • Traders in Hargesia
  • People originally from northern Mali held a seminar on 26 February in Bamako to denounce the rebellion -- many calling the rebels "terrorists" -- and discuss ways communities from the north could support the government in resolving the situation. Those at
  • Students at the school in Manatutu say lessons taught in their indigenous language are easier to follow. Critics say using indigenous languages in schools delays fluency in languages used in business and government, and risks undermining national unity

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