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  • UN plane takes off from Abeche in eastern Chad.
  • Keeping channels open for food aid to get to the refugee camps in eastern Chad is a key part of the humanitarian operations there.
  • Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse hoists the national flag at a tightly-guarded Independence Day function in the capital Colombo. He has vowed to crush Tamil Tiger separatists by the end of the year.
  • Residents of Cairo's City of the Dead sit near a grave they look after.
  • Up to a million poor people have made Cairo's City of the Dead their home.
  • Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse hoists the national flag at a tightly-guarded Independence Day function in the capital Colombo. He has vowed to crush Tamil Tiger separatists by the end of the year.
  • Sri Lanka's military hardware was put on show at its 60th Independence Day celebrations. The government is engaged in fierce fighting to crush Tamil Tiger separatists in the north.
  • Displaced persons at the Tigoni police station receive clothes donated by well wishers, Kenya. February 2008. Approximately 6000 people have been camping at the Tigoni police station following the post election violence.
    Displaced persons at the Tigoni police station receive clothes donated by well wishers, Kenya. February 2008.
  • An internally displaced mother who recently gave birth while at the camp carries her infant baby at the Tigoni police station. February 2008. Approximately 6000 people have been camping at the Tigoni police station following the post election violence.
  • An internally displaced man at the Tigoni police station fastens his goods on a bus as he readies to leave for his homeland, Kenya. February 2008. Thousands of people averaging six thousand have camped at the piolice station following the post.
  • Since their overthrow in late 2001 Taliban fighters have maintained an increasingly violent insurgency in many parts of Afghanistan.
  • A military unit in Yemen's Saada Province.
  • For those working with poultry on a daily basis, lack of awareness is increasingly becoming more important in Pakistan.
  • Awareness levels amongst workers who handle poultry on a daily basis remains low.
  • Bird flu awareness levels amongst workers who handle poultry on a daily basis remains low.
  • There are at least 12,000 commercial poultry farms of varying size throughout the country.
  • There are at least 12,000 commercial poultry farms of varying size around the country.
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  • Rural, small-scale farmers come to Dili to try to sell their small stock of vegetables. A joint FAO/WFP analysis undertaken between December 2005 and January 2006 estimated that 20 percent of the population (some 213,000 people) were food insecure and a f
    Rural, small-scale farmers come to Dili to try to sell their small stock of vegetables. A joint FAO/WFP analysis undertaken between December 2005 and January 2006 estimated that 20 percent of the population were food insecure
  • A Dili resident peddles fruit along the waterfront. Due to the 2006 violence, much of the established market structure has been destroyed.
  • Feeding time at Motael IDP camp in Dili. A recent WFP Dili emergency food security study found 25,000 people at “risk to lives” and needing immediate assistance and 40,000 at “risk to livelihoods”.
  • It is feared poor sanitation may lead to outbreak of waterborne diseases in Lusaka's after torrential rains left most informal settlements flooded over the last two weeks.
    Informal settlements after recent rains
  • Informal settlements have been the hardest hit by continuous heavy rains that has flooded Lusaka.
  • Torrential rains in the Zambian capital Lusaka have left business houses (shops) flooded in the city's cosmopolitan trading centre, Kamwala.
  • Lusaka residents have had to wade through the water, after a continuous heavy downpour over the last two weeks left most parts of the Zambian capital city flooded.
    Wading to the shops
  • Informal settlements have been the worst hit.
    Rains often flood informal settlement streets
  • Lusaka residents have had to wade through the water, after a continuous heavy downpour over the last two weeks left most parts of the Zambian capital city flooded.
    Si les inondations sont monnaie courante en Afrique australe, se préparer à faire face aux perturbations qu’elles engendrent en matière de traitements l’est moins, à en croire un nouveau rapport
  • A vehicle driving through Lusaka flood waters.
  • Afghanistan's human rights commission is concerned that in the absence of proper legal mechanisms more cases of child sales may occur.
  • Parents who had sold their young daughters said they did so because of extreme poverty and their inability to feed them.
  • Minor girls face danger of being sold off by parents for indentured domestic labour.
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