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  • With no heavy machinery available, rescuers use their bare hands to try and dig out those still buried in the rubble.
  • Local residents flock to the area where a rockslide killed at least 30 people and injured many others.
  • Families displaced by fighting earlier this year in Pakistan's Northern areas, including Waziristan and Swat, live in poor conditions.
  • Landmine victim Irene Laker in Gulu.
  • Some of ventilation tiles being manufactured by survivours.
  • During rush hour, cars and motorbikes cram the streets of Phnom Penh.
  • The Cambodian government has been upgrading many of its overcrowded roads
  • Elisete Cabral de Almada, six-months pregnant, waits with her son to see her doctor at Simao Mendes Central hospital in Bissau.
  • Woman and her child waiting to see a doctor at Simao Mendes hospital in Bissau.
  • Women and their babies waiting to see a doctor at Simao Mendes Central Hospital in Bissau. One doctor sees up to 50 patients a day.
  • Dr. Carrington, a pediatrician at Simao Mendes Central Hospital in Bissau. Though one of the country's best, the hospital lacks equipment and medicines.
  • Housing(right) built as a rehabilitation programme to re locate slum dwellers, Nairobi, Kenya. September 2008. This is an initiative that has been carried out by the Kenya government. INCORRECT CAPTION-Clarify before re use
  • Young children scavenge for valuables in a dumpsite in Nairobi, Kenya. September 2008.
  • Mobile phones are increasingly being used as tools for humanitarians
  • Habyrimana a member of the Rebero ERDM in Gicumbi district, Rwanda.
  • Miners dig for gold in Tete province, Mozambique.
  • Miners look for gold in Tete province.
  • Most of the terrain in Rebero is hilly and prone to soil erosion, Gicumbi district, Rwanda.
  • Agaly Atefok, director of the now closed Cailloux school, 130kms northeast of Arlit, Niger.
  • WFP imports food supplies into Afghanistan through Pakistan via trucks.
  • USAID wheat aid to Afghans affected by drought and high food prices.
  • Cooking indoors is a long standing tradition for most rural Nepalese.
  • Many children join their mothers in the kitchen, placing them at increased health risk as well.
  • In many parts of rural Nepal, women spend on average of five hours a day in smoke-filled kitchens such as these - a fact underming their health.
  • Floods do not come alone in Bangladesh, with severe river-bank erosion not far behind. Even at times when there is no serious flooding, river-bank erosion can leave thousands of people homeless and also devour large tracts of agricultural land, Bangladesh
    Floods do not come alone in Bangladesh, with severe river-bank erosion not far behind
  • Women forming a group to fetch safe drinking water from somewhere where a tubewell has not sunken below rising flood waters, Bangladesh. September 2008.
    Women forming a group to fetch safe drinking water from somewhere where a tubewell has not sunken below rising flood waters, Bangladesh
  • A woman cooking her family's daily food standing on a banana-raft after flood water inundated her kitchen on a char (river island) in Sariakandi Sub-district in northern Bogra District. Bangladesh, September 2008.
    A woman prepares a meal for her family in flooded waters, Bangladesh
  • A flood-affected family moves out on a banana-raft in search of higher ground where they can await flood waters to recede. It may take days, weeks, or even months before these type of internally displaced people (IDP) can return home.
  • View from an abandoned Portuguese house on the beach of Grand Popo, Benin.
  • Sandy coast road, Ouidah, Benin.
  • The coffin of the former Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa is lowered to its final resting place in the capital Lusaka.
  • Acting Zambian President Rupiah Banda with his wife at the funeral of Levy Mwanawasa.

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