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  • map of the Turkana Districts
    A map of the Turkana Districts
  • Naeme Khalil knows his new home is not earthquake proof but said because of inflation and delays in compensation he had to buy cheap building materials
  • Ali Zein, Mayor of Shour village in South Lebanon, inspects earthquake damage from last year
  • Some women involved in carpet weaving use opium as painkiller
  • Location map on the bombings and displacement in Philippines
  • Getting young people back to work is seen as a key challenge for the recently independent nation
  • A fisherman plying his trade on the waters of the Tonle Sap lake, Cambodia. The lake is Cambodia’s largest and provides income to tens of thousands of families but the traditional fishing industry here is under threat from climate stresses and commercia
    A fisherman plying his trade on the waters of the Tonle Sap lake, Cambodia.
  • Fishing boat moored outside a fisherman’s house in Rach Gia, southern Vietnam
    Fishing boat moored outside a fisherman’s house in Rach Gia, southern Vietnam
  • A Vietnamese farmer tends her newly planted Jatropha crop in Nha Trang. Jatropha is a plant that can grow in extremely arid conditions and which produces a seed that when crushed creates a bio-diesel that can be used to fuel diesel engines
    A Vietnamese farmer tends her newly planted Jatropha crop in Nha Trang, Vietnam
  • Andong resettlement site near the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. More than a thousand families live here in difficult conditions after they were evicted from a slum in the centre of the city to make way for development
    Andong resettlement site near the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh
  • Children eating in a small slum area of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh
    Children eating in a small slum area of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh
  • The venerable Nyiam Kum Deng, Buddhist monk and leader of the NGO Santi Sena (or Peace Army), leads monks in receipt of offerings from local people. Santi Sena has regenerated the local Prey Koki forest after its widespread destruction during the Vietnam
    The venerable Nyiam Kum Deng, Buddhist monk and leader of the NGO Santi Sena (or Peace Army), leads monks in receipt of offerings from local people in Cambodia
  • About three million people are living in squattered houses in the Afghan capital Kabul
  • “Because of insecurity, even at five years old you learn to use a rifle.” A Turkana boy poses with his AK-47 rifle in the far northwest of Kenya, near the border with Sudan. Most of the pastoralist communities in this region of Africa carry weapons
    A Turkana boy poses with his AK-47 rifle in the far northwest of Kenya, near the border with Sudan
  • Women in northwest Kenya’s Pokot region pray during a meeting to discuss the hardships – drought, conflict poverty, etc – endured by pastoralists
  • A Turkana elder in northwest Kenya
    A Turkana elder in northwest Kenya
  • Turkana youths in northern Kenya, near the Sudanese border. Small arms such as the AK-47 are widespread among pastoralist communities in east Africa, where increasingly severe and unpredictable drought has contributed to an increase in conflict between d
    Turkana youths in northern Kenya, near the Sudanese border
  • A Turkana man walks across the arid landscape of northwest Kenya, near the town of Lodwar. Many pastoralists in the region have lost animals to drought, theft and disease
    A Turkana man walks across the arid landscape of northwest Kenya, near the town of Lodwar
  • Camels are a common sight in northwest Kenya’s Turkana region as they cope with drought better than other forms of livestock
    Camels are a common sight in northwest Kenya’s Turkana region as they cope with drought better than other forms of livestock
  • The market at Akobo was largely empty on 6 July, thanks to drought and the blockage of River Sobat by armed attackers
  • The River Pibor, at Akobo, has not seen much traffic ever since the 12 June attack by armed men on a WFP flotilla
    The River Pibor, at Akobo, has not seen much traffic ever since the 12 June attack by armed men on a WFP flotilla
  • The River Pibor, at Akobo, has not seen much traffic ever since the 12 June attack by armed men on a WFP flotilla. Boats have since remained idle
    Idle boats along the Pibor river at Akobo.
  • Relief food being offloaded from a Bufallo transport plane hired by WFP in Akobo, Jonglei State of Southern Sudan, on 6 July
  • An old woman joins dancers in Akobo on 6 July, to prepare for the arrival of a new commissioner for Jonglei State, Southern Sudan
  • A man makes charcoal from a recently felled tree in the Turkana region of northwestern Kenya. As drought, disease, armed conflict and lack of development render the pastoralist lifestyle ever less viable, people are turning to other ways of eking out a li
  • A map of confirmed H1N1/09 confirmed infections in Africa as of 23 June
  • Raining day in the streets of Libreville, the Gabonese capital
  • Lightning in the Western Sahara - for generic use
  • Lightning - for generic use
  • The pamphlet the Israeli Immigration Authority distributes
  • Philippine Social Welfare Secretary Esperanza Cabral (left) and Wrold Food Programme (WFP) country director Stephen Anderson addresses queries by reporters in Manila. The officials said the IDP situation in the southern Philippines remains very fluid amid
  • Asylum seeker children in a demonstration in Levinsky Park, Tel Aviv
    Environ 1 200 enfants de travailleurs immigrés pourraient être expulsés d’ici le milieu de l’année 2010 (photo d’archives)

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