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  • The government has earmarked about US$2.5 million funds to both ministries to clear snow and flood-related damages from over ten thousand kilometers of national and sub-national roads across the country.
  • Dermatology unit in Donka hospital, Conakry, is hosting HIV/AIDS patients as well.
  • Ladji Wangué Gueye Nicole, coordinator of a campaign to fight violence against women and girls, Cote d'Ivoire.
  • Housing outside the border town of Oshikango, Namibia is a mix of traditional homes and small brick houses. Many in the area lack access to piped water, gathering water daily from local ponds.
  • A commercial sex worker walks with youths in Oshikango, Namibia. On the border of Angola and Namibia, the town is a hub of economic activity but presents little in the way of formal economic opportunities for local youth.
  • Classes at many schools in the quake area are being held outdoors.
  • Mohamed Abdirahman, 19, who fled southern Somalia on 31 October and has been living in Hargeisa, capital of Somaliland. He was thrown out of his shelter by his hosts after the recent suicide bombings in the city.
  • Over 6,000 Bhutanese refugees have already been resettled in USA, Europe, Australia and Canada.
  • Red palm weevils are pests to palm plantations because their larvae make holes up to a metre long in the trunks of palm trees, often killing their hosts.
  • Heavy snows blocked roads in some provinces and impeded aid delivery to vulnerable communities last winter. Afghanistan
  • Children are particularly vulnerable to harms caused by armed conflict and natural disasters.
  • Route Nationale 2, which runs north from the Congolese capital, was badly damaged by heavy rains. Massengo, a northern suburb of Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.
  • Lack of hygiene is one of the main reasons for cholera outbreaks.
  • With a drought destroying much of the winter wheat crop in Maila, Humla District, Mid-West Nepal and hail, excessive rain and landslides destroying up to 50 percent of the rice and millet crops, families are facing a serious food crisis.
  • Young girls return home from school in Maila, Humla District, Mid-West Nepal. Many students trek on an empty stomach two to three hours over steep terrain to get to and from school and are left little time to study.
    Young girls return home from school in Maila, Humla District, Mid-West Nepal.
  • At the remote Chhetrapal Primary School in Lolibada Settlement, Maila Village Development Committee, Humla District, Mid-West Nepal, no school desks or chairs are available and the students study on the dirt floor, often simultaneously watching over a you
  • Orlando Jose Dias Bareto and partner in front of illegal housing, Praia.
  • Outskirts of Safende, a mostly illegal housing settlement in Praia.
  • Barack Obama.
    US President-elect Barack Obama
  • Food distribution at St Michel Hospital in Jacmel.
  • Mohammed Omar sitting on the ruins of his destroyed house.
  • Juju Gassama, a rice-grower in Jambur, 30km from Banjul. She is a member of a rice-growers association, most of whose members have switched to growing Nerica. City of Banjul.
  • St Michel Hospital, Jacmel.
  • Recurrent drought has dried up pasturelands and water wells leaving animals with very little to eat and drink.
  • Datu Piang, Philippines - A mother and her children at an evacuation camp in the southern Philippines. Experts say there will be more sufferings and displacements in Mindanao with the MILF not seen to return to the peace negotiating table in the near term
  • Datu Piang, Philippines - A young girl at an evacuation camp in the southern Philippines. Experts warn of more displacements and suffering in Mindanao island, with MILF guerrillas seen stepping up attacks with no immediate signs of resumption of peace tal
  • Maguindanao, Philippines - Children play in a gymnasium converted into an evacuation camp in the southern Philippines. UNICEF urged the government to prioritise the education of children displaced by the fighting, and said "safe places" near evacuation si
  • Crowded classrooms in southern Myanmar, six months after Cyclone Nargis.
  • Nahr al-Bared is littered with unexploded ordnance
    Nahr al-Bared is littered with unexploded ordnance
  • Palestinian refugees earn US$13 a day sorting through the rubble of their neighbours' homes
    Palestinian refugees earn US$13 a day sorting through the rubble of their neighbours' homes
  • Scavenging for food in rubbish dumps.
  • The 15-week conflict last year between the army and Fatah Islam insurgents leveled the old camp.

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