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  • Abdullahi Said, 12,a street boy trying to help his family
  • Aya Abdel Aati, 17, was circumcised at the age of 12
  • Street children shinning shoes in Bosasso
  • A map of the Philippines showing the location of all the regions and provinces. This map was accurate before the creation of the province of Dinagat Islands (<a href="http://pictures.irinnews.org/images/2010/originals/201003080919390416.jpg" target="_blan
  • An elderly Igorot tribeswoman from upland Sagada region in the northern Philippines eats food. Officials are warning that an El Nino-induced drought could impact on the impoverished country's food security
  • Recurrent sectarian violence has prevented thousands of displaced from returning to northern Nigeria near the city of Jos
  • Latrines in a site for people displaced by the 12 January earthquake in Haiti. The lack of lighting and poor security of such sanitation facilities are exposing women and girls to a greater risk of rape and other forms of violence
  • Togo's armed forces dispersed demonstrations with tear gas on 7 March
  • The largest market in Togo's capital, Lomé, remains shuttered on 7 March during an electoral row
  • Stem rust disease could decimate wheat, a staple food crop
    Stem rust disease could decimate wheat, a staple food crop
  • A woman carries home sacks of wheat flour. Pakistanis consume 22 million tons of wheat every year
  • Voter in Togo's 4 March presidential election
  • From oral to nasal? Scientists are looking into nasal vaccines
    From oral to nasal? Scientists try to create nasal vaccines (file photo)
  • Flooded Ewaso Nyiro river along Isiolo/Samburu districts following heavy rains which caused destruction of five tourists lodges and forced an evacuation of more than 200 tourists
    Selon l’OCHA, plus de 80 000 personnes affectées par les inondations ont besoin d’aide alimentaire, d’abris, de tentes et de produits non alimentaires
  • Voters gather for the closely watched presidential poll in Lomé on 4 March 2010
  • Flooded Ewaso Nyiro river along Isiolo/Samburu districts following heavy rains which caused destruction of five tourists lodges and forced an evacuation of more than 200 tourists
    The Ewaso Nyiro River burst its banks affecting transport between Isiolo and Samburu districts
  • Sandbars clog the normally bustling Red River
  • A new mud brick house stands next to the rubble of one of 4,036 homes destroyed in the January 2009 war between Israel and Hamas
    A new mud brick house stands next to the rubble of one of 4,036 homes destroyed in the January 2009 war between Israel and Hamas
  • A lot of young male adults have left their villages in search of subsistance means after the poor raining season in 2009 prevented them from harvesting. In the village of Garin Dagabi, north of Tanout in Southern Niger, the population at the beginning of
    In the village of Garin Dagabi, north of Tanout in Southern Niger, the population at the beginning of 2010 was mainly made of old people, women and children
  • A child with camels, donkeys and goats at the watering place near the village of Makanga, north of Tanout, Southern Niger
    A child with camels, donkeys and goats at the watering place near the village of Makanga, north of Tanout, Southern Niger
  • Alhadji Idi, head of the village of Gouragass, 20 km north of Tanout in Southern Niger. Because of the poor raining season in 2009, the village was only able to harvest 10 per cent of the millet, sorghum and cow peas production they usually get
  • Boukary Issouf is the head of the village of Garin Dagabi, 25 km north of Tanout in Southern Niger. The village got only two short rains in 2009 and failed to harvest millet, the stapple food
  • A traditional well near the village of Gouragass, near Tanout in Southern Niger. Usually, the hard task of drawing water from the 80-meter depth well is done by men, but is now down to children as young adult migrated to look for subsistance means after t
    A traditional well close to the village of Gouragass, near Tanout, southern Niger
  • Red Cross volunteers survey damage wreaked by landslide that struck eastern Uganda’s Bududa district on 1 March
  • The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) hopes to build 120 clay houses in Gaza for families whose homes were destroyed in last year’s war
    The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) hopes to build 120 clay houses in Gaza for families whose homes were destroyed in last year’s war
  • Mohamed, 16, watches TV in the sitting room in front of an electric heater in his newly constructed mud brick house in Gaza
    Mohamed, 16, watches TV in the sitting room in front of an electric heater in his newly constructed mud brick house in Gaza
  • Abu Raed al-Athamna, 67, warms himself with a fire outside his new mud brick house in Gaza
    Abu Raed al-Athamna, 67, warms himself with a fire outside his new mud brick house in Gaza
  • Because of an Israeli blockade on construction materials such as cement and steel entering Gaza, Palestinians are making the most of local resources
    Because of an Israeli blockade on construction materials such as cement and steel entering Gaza, Palestinians are making the most of local resources
  • A donkey cart driver brings more bricks to a building site. Cement makes up just 3 percent of each mud brick
    A donkey cart driver brings more bricks to a building site. Cement makes up just 3 percent of each mud brick
  • Head of household Hassan, 66, stands outside the new family home in Salam neighborhood, eastern Jabaliya. He says he hopes this is not a permanent solution
    Head of household Hassan, 66, stands outside the new family home in Salam neighborhood, eastern Jabaliya
  • Mud brick houses are cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
    Mud brick houses are cool in the summer and warm in the winter
  • Mud brick houses are cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Safia al-Err, 63, says she prefers her new house to the tent she lived in before
    Mud brick houses are cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Safia al-Err, 63, says she prefers her new house to the tent she lived in before

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