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  • A displaced persons camp in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka. Thousands of Tamil civilians continue to languish inside camps such as this more than five months after the Sri Lankan government officially declared the war over
    A displaced persons camp in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka
  • Asha Abdi, some of her children and other immigrant Ethiopian women on a street in Hargeisa. Somaliland immigration officials have expressed concern over the increase in the number of illegal Ethiopian, with claims that up to 90 people are arriving daily,
    Asha Abdi, some of her children and other immigrant Ethiopian women on a street in Hargeisa
  • Adama Ndiaye, 20, lives in the region of Kaédi, in southern Mauritania. After her two first children died of malnutrition-related complications, she decided to travel to Nouakchott, the capital, to seek care for her 21-month old twin girls and her one-mo
  • Adama Ndiaye, 20, lives in the region of Kaédi, in southern Mauritania. After her two first children died of malnutrition-related complications, she decided to travel to Nouakchott, the capital, to seek care for her 21-month old twin girls and her one-mo
  • Adama Ndiaye, 20, lives in the region of Kaédi, in southern Mauritania. After her two first children died of malnutrition-related complications, she decided to travel to Nouakchott, the capital, to seek care for her 21-month old twin girls and her one-mo
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  • Members of market gardening association in Three Kilometre village, just north of San Domingos
  • Saplings lined up to plant. ICRC provides them to villagers in and around San Domingos in Cacheu region, to help them diversify beyond cashews and rice
  • Rana Zaqout, head of the Pandemic Influenza Contigency (PIC) unit for the Middle East and North Africa, which is part of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
  • Inhabitants of 3km village north of San Domingos say they chop down trees to make charcoal when they cannot earn enough from cashews or rice
  • ICRC builds well is Cacheu region near gardens to help village associations water their plants
  • Ahmed Ali, a teacher at Youssri al-Gamal School in Imbaba (Cairo), feels that overcrowding is the enduring problem in Cairo's schools. He runs a Shisha cafe in the evenings to make ends meet
  • Schoolchildren in Cairo are only going to school three days a week as a measure to mitigate the spread of pandemic H1N1 influenza
  • Thomson's Gazelle at Masai Mara, Kenya
    Puntland officials say the most common game in the area is gazelle (such as this one above) and ostrich (file photo)
  • Thousands of fishermen lost their livelihoods in the wake of Cyclone Sidr which ravaged much of the country's southwestern coastal area on 15 November 2007. -IMPROVED IMAGE
  • In the aftermath of Ketsana, a man tries to salvage the remains of his house in Sekong Province. Government estimates suggest close to 180,000 people were affected by the 29 September 2009 storm
  • Rivers overflowed their banks and surged through the town of Saravan, southern Laos
  • An increased number of residents of the Terrai are now food insecure as a result of unusually heavy rains earlier this month (October 2009)
  • MINURCAT forces patrol Ade in eastern Chad, one of the areas the UN has identified as a potential returnee site for IDPs
  • Vaccine quality testing by the Division of Biological Products at the Department of Medical Sciences, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
  • Humanitarian aid must be delivered on basis of needs and according to principles of humanity, neutrality and impartiality
    Aid workers say humanitarian assistance must be apolitical and should not serve military and counterinsurgency purposes
  • Many areas in Lesotho are only accessible by foot or horseback
  • ICRC has built latrines and installed wells in refugee committees in northern Guinea-Bissau
  • Women bring their babies to San Domingos hospital to be vaccinated. The programme could not go ahead without outside support - this time from Portuguese NGO VIDA
  • Yuba Sanya, representative of Senegalese refugee community in the Cacheu region of northern Guinea-Bissau outside his house in Umbaim village just south of the town of San Domingos
  • Some 400 Km from the capital Maseru in Thaba Khubelu, a tiny village in the mountainous district of Qacha’s Nek - one of the most remote areas in Lesotho - some 250 households, eagerly watched as a military helicopter touched down to deliver their first
  • Noor Shamari (not her real name), a divorced mother-of-two from Mansour District in Baghdad and now living as a refugee in Cairo, did not want to show her face for security reasons
  • Food security for IDPs could suffer due to the closure of food hubs
  • Soldiers from the United States and five east African countries march in Kitgum, northern Uganda, as part of Natural Fire 10, a 10-day exercise aimed at boosting capacity in fighting terrorism and responding to humanitarian crises
  • Humanitarian actors must uphold their independence from military actors and demonstrate their neutrality
  • Only in exceptional circumstances and as a last resort can military assets and personnel be used in humanitarian assistance operations, the Guidelines says
  • With jobs so limited in NRS, many Rohingya men take jobs in fishing, farming and day labour
    With jobs so limited in NRS, many Rohingya men take jobs in fishing, farming and day labour

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