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  • A woman in a refugee settlement in Bossaso, Puntland, Somalia
    A woman in a refugee settlement in Bossaso, Puntland
  • Canals used to take the bulk of Bangkok's traffic, but most have now been taken over by roads
  • In some parts of Bangkok, streets, such as this one taken in October 2009, flood easily
  • A Coptic Christian Church in St Bishoy Monastery between Cairo and Alexandria
    L’église chrétienne copte du monastère Saint-Bishoy, entre Le Caire et Alexandrie. Le pays compte environ huit millions de Coptes
  • A broken water pipe in Ermera District, Timor Leste
  • Children suffer the most as a result of harsh conditions in IDP camps
  • According to UNHCR, the number of IDPs continue to increase as a result of ongoing fighting in Saada and Amran governorates
  • Disappointed and angry, hundreds of child soldiers left for home last week (7 January 2009) after being officially delisted from the Maoist army
  • Graphic showing how pastoralist herders migrate with their livestock in search of pasture and water during dry seasons, often creating tension with other communities over grazing land
Full version of map and graphic here: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.
  • Map showing escalation of violence and food insecurity in Southern Sudan in 2009. Inter-communal violence, attacks by Lord's Resistance Army rebels, high food prices and low rainfall left 1.5 million people in need of food aid.
Full map and graphic: http
  • IDP children are acutely vulnerable to malnourishment
  • An internally displaced child in Kabul
  • Foreign trawlers scoop up even the smallest fish, decimating stocks, says the Ghana fisheries commission
  • A vehicle covered with campaign stickers is seen in the heart of Colombo during afternoon rush hour traffic. With the 2010 Presidential Election nearing, the campaigns of the two main candidates former commander of the Sri Lankan Army, Sarath Fonseka, and
  • A farmer carries pasture from another area for his cows after frost destroyed his berseem farm
  • Ali Hassan al-Jamid covers his khat plants with cloth sheets to prevent frost killing them in Afghanistan
    A farmer covers his khat plants with cloth sheets to prevent frost killing them in Afghanistan
  • Supporters of President Mahinda Rajapaksa take to the streets wearing his party colours, chanting slogans and distributing propaganda material
  • Mybell Ngomba was one of thousands who lost their homes to earthquakes that struck Malawi's northern district of Karonga between 6 and 27 December
  • The ad says: 
I'm a 33-year-old man, healthy and non-smoking, don't take drugs or consume alcohol, blood type O. I am offering one of my kidneys for Rp 200,000,000 (negotiable), because I desperately need money. If your friend or relative needs one, plea
  • IRIN Radio’s Masoud Popalzai conducting interviews on health services in Takhar province, 2008
  • Manufacturing prosthetics at CARK
  • The human kidney
  • Everlyn Masha Koya, a sex worker-turned peer educator, in the town of Isiolo in Kenya's Eastern Province
  • Nuuro Mohamed, a displaced person in the village of Dudun Hagarey, near Dusamareb
  • Cecelia Malango, 24, has spent five years at the Mangem IDP centre outside Madang, northern Papua New Guinea
  • Ashta Ali Heissein with her five-year-old daughter (middle) after seeking care for the girl's FGM/C-related complications
  • Phase One of an Egyptian government programme to inoculate some 1.2 million primary school children against H1N1 influenza
  • Children account for 75 percent of IDPs in camps in Saada and Amran governorates
  • Albay provincial government's disaster operation centre. Thousands of evacuees have returned home
    Albay provincial government's disaster operation centre. Thousands of evacuees have returned home
  • Rights groups say conflict has adversly impacted many children in Afghanistan
  • An increasing number of women are now selling their hair to get by. Hair-trader Ya Min weighs some hair to sell on
  • Long silky hair is held in high regard in Myanmar. An increasing number of women are now selling their hair to supplement their incomes

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