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  • Layli Akhtar and her daughter Mahmooda. Layli lost her husband and her other daughter in the cyclone and says she is helpless and cannot cope without her husband who was also the main breadwinner.
  • Mustafa Mullah lost his family in Cyclone Sidr and lives on his own in a tent. He is dependent on aid and does not know where his next meal will come from.
  • Shiraz Munshi was badly injured by Cyclone Sidr and cannot work so has had to send his 10-year-old son out to work.
  • Up to 80 percent of the Masai living in Magadi, in southern Kenya, have lost their cattle due to drought, which is becoming more frequent as a result of global warming.
  • Samuel Kikoso is struggling to feed his 10 children and two wives after 300 of his cows died. He fears the 50 cattle he has left will also soon die.
  • Nasha Shinini is a single mother of four who is struggling to survive. Her husband left the family in search of work in Tanzania after their cows died in the village of O Lesorian in Magadi.
  • A protester holds up a sign questioning government response to xenophobic attacks in South Africa during a march in Johannesburg.
  • Janet Camara (not her real name) left school to become a sex worker to help her mother support her family. Rising food prices in Guinea have made it harder for urban families to support themselves.
  • An armed guard travels with a previous WFP food consignment.
  • Ngeleca Maddalina from the Ik community in Karamoja, northeastern Uganda.
  • Ngeleca Maddalina from the Ik community in Karamoja, northeastern Uganda.
  • Malnourished child at a MSF-supported feeding centre at Seraro, in southern Ethiopia, May 2008.
  • Nachan was beaten and chased away from her village when her family died.
  • Samuel Zona, originally from Zimbabwe, cooks soup at The Village Safe Haven in Johannesburg. He fled to the charity after being displaced by xenophobic violence. The soup he helps cook daily goes to feed hundreds of foreigners at the nearby Alexandra poli
  • Foreigners line up to receive food at a camp for those displaced by xenophobic attacks in Alexandra township in Johannesburg.
  • A Zimbabwean immigrant in the makeshift camp for those displaced by xenophobic violence at the Alexandra police station.
  • A woman marches in the inner city of Johannesburg in protest against xenophobic attacks that have spread across the country.
  • A women's rally in Dhaka calling upon the government to immediately implement the national Women's Development Policy 2008
  • Islamic clerics brought out a rally in Dhaka after the Jum'a prayers at the Baitul Mukarram National mosque on 11 April 2008. Protestors attacked the police with sticks and rods. In this photo a cleric beati a police officer with a rifle that he snatched
  • Stick wielding clerics attacked a police station in Chittagong to show their opposition to the the government's National Women's development Policy of the government. They ransacked the police station injuring five policemen, and burnt a motorbike in fron
  • A women's rally in Dhaka calling upon the government to immediately implement the national Women's development Policy 2008.
  • A water-treatment tower in Conakry - a rare site in this city where the majority of residents have erratic access to drinking water.
  • Mr Cheikh Sylla is director-general of the Guinea water board (SEG) which is trying to expand Conakry's water pipes, repair leakages througout the system and introduce better usage monitoring so that people pay their water bills.
  • In Guinea many water pumps are damaged or stolen so need to be reinforced with concrete. Under a third of rural communities can access clean water and water supplies are erratic in cities.
  • Clémentine Diapa is an urban farmer in Yaoundé who also teaches at the public high school.
  • Clémentine Diapa has taught at the public high school in Yaoundé for the last 22 is also a farmer. “After my husband died I realised that I would never be able to look after my seven children on my salary,” she said. Diapa now has a 2000 sq
  • According to a UN report, there were 2,973 minors in the Maoist Army in January 2007.
  • There are many females among the child soldiers associated with former Maoist rebels.
  • Thousands of minors associated with the People's Liberation Army of the CPNM have yet to be formally discharged and reintegrated.
  • Burnt roadside shops in Abyei.
    Destruction caused by the fighting between the Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the army in Abyei
  • Burnt out market in Abyei.
  • Burnt out in Abyei.
    Burnt-out Abyei following fighting in May 2008 (file photo)

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