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  • A man gathers date palm sap in the northwestern district of Rajshahi in Bangladesh, where repeated Nipah infection outbreaks, spread by fruit bats, have killed some 157 since 2001
  • Egyptian asylum Sayed Ahmad Abdellatif, 41, has lived in Indonesia since August 2010. The father-of-six will now pay close to US$17,000 to smugglers to take his family to Australia by boat after requests for refugee status have gone unanswered. Hundreds o
  • After renewed clashes between security services and protesters in Egypt, a tent city was resurrected in Cairo's central Tahrir Square in November 2011 to push the ruling military council to hand over power to a civilian government immediately
    La place Tahrir, au Caire, ne dégage plus la même énergie qu’avant ; de nombreux activistes se disent désillusionnés
  • Crowds gather around a UN helicopter in Pibor town in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, where intercommunal violence has affected 140,000 people
    Russia, which has eight helicopters and 120 personnel in UNMISS, is due to withdraw from the peacekeeping mission in April
  • People displaced by clashes in South Sudan’s Jonglei state wait for a food distribution in Pibor
    The UN estimates 140,000 people need help
  • An oil rig off the Niger Delta, Nigeria. Oil spills and “vandalism” in Nigeria have cost millions in environmental damage and are a cause of frequent disputes with affected communities
  • Hayam Yousef, a mother of three, waits in line for her turn to vote in Egypt's first elections since pro-democracy demonstrators forced the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in February 2011. Cairo, November 2011
    Hayam Yousef, une mère de trois enfants, attend son tour pour voter lors des premières élections libres et justes d’Égypte
  • An Egyptian pays tribute to a protester killed in renewed clashes with security services around Cairo's Tahrir Square in November 2011
    Un Égyptien rend hommage à un manifestant tué lors des affrontements avec les services de sécurité qui ont eu lieu dans les mois suivant le départ de Hosni Moubarak
  • One of the many holes in the 250km razor wire fence along the Zimbabwe-South Africa border which allow easy access to would-be intruders
    One of the many holes in the 250km razor wire fence along the Zimbabwe-South Africa border which allow easy access to would-be intruders
  • After jumping the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa, illegal migrants climb into a waiting vehicle that will transport them to the nearby town of Musina
    After jumping the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa, illegal migrants climb into a waiting vehicle that will transport them to the nearby town of Musina
  • A young man pans gold dust at a mine in western Kenya
    A young man pans gold dust at a mine in western Kenya (Feb 2012)
  • A dealer weighs processed gold. Middlemen benefit from the gold leaving many residents poor
    A dealer weighs processed gold at a mine in western Kenya (Feb 2012)
  • Some of the Buuhoodle IDPs
  • Some of the Buuhoodle IDPs
    Some of the Buuhoodle IDPs
  • Reed bed at Malpi International School in Panauti, Nepal- a low-tech way to filter our impurities from wastewater
  • Migrants staying at a shelter in Musina, near South Africa’s border with Zimbabwe, play soccer
    Migrants at a shelter in Musina, near South Africa’s border with Zimbabwe (Feb 2012)
  • The inside of one of the basic canvas shelters at the ‘I believe in Jesus Church’ shelter for recently arrived male migrants in the South African border town of Musina
    The inside of one of the basic canvas shelters at the ‘I believe in Jesus Church’ shelter for recently arrived male migrants in the South African border town of Musina
  • Migrants and asylum seekers at the ‘I believe in Jesus Church’ shelter for men in the South African border town of Musina queue up for a free hot meal, provided by the UN’s Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
    Migrants and asylum seekers at the ‘I believe in Jesus Church’ shelter for men in the South African border town of Musina queue up for a free hot meal, provided by the UN’s Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
  • A shelter for recently arrived male migrants on the outskirts of Musina near South Africa’s border with Zimbabwe is run by the local ‘I believe in Jesus Church’ and consists of little more than a row of tents
    A shelter for recently arrived male migrants on the outskirts of Musina near South Africa’s border with Zimbabwe is run by the local ‘I believe in Jesus Church’ and consists of little more than a row of tents
  • Vincent Dirriza joined the hundreds of Zimbabweans who jump the border into South Africa every day. Having paid various “guides” to make the crossing, he is now penniless and staying at a shelter in the border town of Musina
    Vincent Dirriza joined the hundreds of Zimbabweans who jump the border into South Africa every day. Having paid various “guides” to make the crossing, he is now penniless and staying at a shelter in the border town of Musina
  • Refugee reception office in Musina, Limpopo Province, South Africa: It is one of just four in the country where asylum-seekers can apply for documentation
    Refugee reception office in Musina, Limpopo Province, South Africa: It is one of just four in the country where asylum-seekers can apply for documentation
  • Christopher Sibanda, head of security for Maroi Farm, just a few metres from South Africa’s border with Zimbabwe, regularly comes across illegal migrants during his nightly patrols
    Christopher Sibanda, head of security for Maroi Farm, just a few metres from South Africa’s border with Zimbabwe, regularly comes across illegal migrants during his nightly patrols
  • After jumping the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa, illegal migrants pay drivers to transport them to the nearby town of Musina and beyond
    After jumping the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa, illegal migrants pay drivers to transport them to the nearby town of Musina and beyond
  • A group of illegal migrants find easy access through an open gate in the border fence between Zimbabwe and South Africa, about 25km west of the Beitbridge border post (Feb 2012)
    A group of illegal migrants find easy access through an open gate in the border fence between Zimbabwe and South Africa, about 25km west of the Beitbridge border post (Feb 2012)
  • Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi
  • Women of Ethiopian origin at a human rights demo in Tel Aviv, January 2012
    Women of Ethiopian origin at a human rights demo in Tel Aviv
  • Sister Bernadette works in a leprosy clinic run by nuns in Dimbokro in the centre of the country
  • Samuel, who lives with leprosy, lives in Chrétienko in eastern Cote d'Ivoire, where he is being trained to become a shoe-maker
  • Hazaras protest killings in Quetta, Pakistan
    Hazaras protest killings in Quetta, Pakistan
  • A woman on top covered with fuming smoke of burning charcoal in Nwoya district in northern Uganda
    A woman burning charcoal in Nwoya district in northern Uganda (Feb 2012)
  • A man cutting down a tree for charcoal burning in Nwoya district. Indiscriminate forest cutting on the rise in northern Uganda
  • Women return from fetching firewrood in the arid district of Moroto, some 261 miles nortth of Kampala, Uganda's capital
    Women return from fetching firewrood in the arid district of Moroto, some 261 miles nortth of Kampala, Uganda's capital (Feb 2012)

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