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  • Toxic effluent flows from the rubbish mountain directly into the sea, where it has killed marine life in a radius of 500m.
  • Waves crash into the edge of the rubbish mountain, which has collapsed three times into the sea. Fishermen say their nets are cut and motors clogged by the rubbish in the water.
  • Waves crash into the edge of the rubbish mountain, which has collapsed three times into the sea. Fishermen say their nets are cut and motors clogged by the rubbish in the water.
  • Some 1,500 displaced people living in the corridors of the national hospital are causing safety and health concerns. The government says it takes as a priority moving them to transitional housing.
  • Some 1,500 displaced people living in the corridors of the national hospital are causing safety and health concerns. The government says it takes as a priority moving them to transitional housing.
  • A truck load of returnees leave the IDP camp they have called home for nearly two years. Forty-three families (380 people) have left IDP camps in Dili to return home in the past week as security has improved.
  • Some of the 30,000 IDP's still residing in welfare camps in Dili, Timor-Leste’s capital, packing up their possessions at the Dominican Sisters camp to return to their homes which the government has pledged to help rebuild.
  • Established in 1975 as a temporary municipal tip, the tip on the edge of Sidon has grown into a four-storey high, 600,000 cubic meters mountain of garbage, soil, concrete debris, hospital waste and occasional dead animals.
  • Women and children in M’beida village in southern Mauritania are worried about their dwindling grain stocks.
  • Adult learners in rural Zambia.
  • Adult learners in rural Zambia.
  • "Respect. Weapons are dangerous in medical vehicles and facilities. Leave them outside." One of four ICRC, PRCS and MoH posters that are part of a campaign promoting core values.
  • Faez al-Ajrami, a Palestinian medic injured during the Jabalya incursion, being taken to hospital.
  • Sivasuntharai Chandrakanthan, alias Pillayan, TMVP leader voting.
  • Women wade through pools of water to get to the polling station in Ichchanthivu.
  • Vellappaddi Sellamma on her way to vote.
  • Child beggars queue for food in Kano.
  • Helmand Province alone produced about 40 percent of Afghanistan’s 8,200 metric tonnes of opium in 2007.
  • Children work up to 10 hours daily on soggy poppy fields collecting sprawl bushes which harm poppy flowers.
  • A baby and her sister in a school room which is their IDP shelter in the municipality of Datu Piang in Minguindanao Province on Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines
    A baby and her sister in a school room which is their IDP shelter, Southern Philippines
  • A young girl with her child in a school room which is an IDP shelter in the municipality of Datu Piang in Minguindanao Province on Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines. March 2008
    A young girl with her child in a school room which is an IDP shelter, southern Philippines
  • Baikongan Ismail in the school room that has been home for three months since warfare between clans allied with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) forced her family to evacuate their farm in Barangay Pandi in mid-December 2007.
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  • Returning to the shore after a day's catch on a Brahmaputra river island in Gaibandha District.
  • A river island of the Ganges in Rajshahi District.
  • A river island in the Kaliganga River approximately 100 km from Bangladesh's capital Dhaka.
  • Jacoub Diop, head of the village of medina Salam in Mauritania. He will be welcoming 40 refugee families returning from 19 years of living in Senegal.
  • Mauritanian refugees in Senegal waiting to return home to Mauritania.
  • Thousands of protestors marched in Burkina Faso and other towns and cities to protest high food prices on 15 March.
  • Floods killed dozens of people and destroyed hundreds of houses across Afghanistan in 2007.
  • Measles kills 58 children a day in Pakistan. A young boy is vaccinated outside his school.

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