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  • Women sell food stuff next to heap of garbage in Luanda, Angola, August 2007. Luanda residents have become used to living next-door to garbage One development group estimated that it would take 22,000 dumps trucks just to clear away the trash. That was in
  • Women sell food stuff next to heap of garbage in Luanda, Angola, August 2007. Luanda residents have become used to living next-door to garbage One development group estimated that it would take 22,000 dumps trucks just to clear away the trash. That was in
  • Children rifle through uncollected garbage, Luanda, Angola, August 2007. One in four children in Angola dies before his or her fifth birthday, mostly from preventable diseases like malaria and measles.
  • Residents from neighbouring villages fill up their jerry cans with the raw water being pumped out of the River Bengo at the water station in Kifangondo, 20 km outside Luanda. Angola, August 2007.  The Bengo is the river that passes just north of Angola's
  • Private tankers fill up raw water pumped out of the River Bengo at the privately-run water station in Kifangondo, 20 km outside Luanda, Angola, August 2007. The river is dark with grit and its banks are strewn with garbage. There, at the end of a deeply r
  • A view of Boa Vista informal settlement, Luanda, Angola, August 2007. Most Luanda residents live in tin and mud shacks built on mounds of waste.
  • Children take a bath outside their home in Boa Vista informal settlement, Luanda, Angola, August 2007. Water is precious in Luanda, many families make-do with a 20 litre jerry can for their daily requirements.
  • Children play outside their home in Boa Vista informal settlement, Luanda, Angola, August 2007. In Luanda, home to some of the world's worst slums, nearly every neighborhood outside the city center is ringed by mountains of garbage, often soaked by rivule
  • Children play outside their home Boa Vista informal settlement, Luanda, Angola, August 2007. In Luanda, home to some of the world's worst slums, nearly every neighborhood outside the city center is ringed by mountains of garbage, often soaked by rivulets
  • Residents of the Boa Vista informal settlement in Luanda queue for water, Angola, August 2007. Only one in six Luandans is lucky to enjoy running water, and for many of them, it comes from a community standpipe.
  • Residents of the Boa Vista informal settlement in Luanda queue for water, Angola, August 2007. Buying the water is the easy part, after filling up their containers Luanda residents still have to walk long distances back to their homes in the informal sett
  • Residents of the Boa Vista informal settlement in Luanda queue for water, Angola, August 2007. Water is precious in Luanda, many families make-do with a 20 litre jerry can for their daily requirements.
  • A view of Luanda city, Angola, August 2007. Luanda, like many cities in the developing world is a victim of unplanned growth.
  • A map of Iraq highlighting al-Qadissiyah province.
  • A Congolese woman asylum seeker washes her children with sewer water, outside UNHCR office in Bujumbura, Burundi, 20 August 2007. the Congolese asylum seekers fetch the dirty water for drinking.
    A Congolese woman asylum seeker washes her children with sewer water, outside UNHCR office in Bujumbura, Burundi,August 2007. the Congolese asylum seekers fetch the dirty water for drinking.
  • A Congolese asylum seeker plays with her child after preparing a meal at the playing fields, in Bujumbura, Burundi, 20 August 2007.
  • Most Luanda residents buy their water by the bucket.
  • Displaced families say they urgently need food and shelter.
  • Displaced people say they could not take their belongings with them when fleeing from the conflict in Tora Bora.
  • Egyptian-Israeli border fence. Near this point, African asylum seekers cross into Israel nearly every night seeking refuge
  • A painting by Sudanese refugees in Israel depicting life in south Sudan. It was shown at a demonstration in Jerusalem.
  •  African refugee children in Kadesh Barnea, Israel.
  • “Mzee Musa”, a traditional herbalist, slices pieces of roots for use as medicine, Ukunda, Kenya July 2007. Kenya is to develop a national strategy for both promoting and regulating the use of traditional medicine, and providing alternative forms of tr
  • Some of the traditional medicines used to cure various diseases, Ukunda, Kenya, July 2007. Attempts to regulate the industry, including the registration of traditional healers, have been affected by bitter rivalries between conventional doctors and tradit
  • A traditional doctor explains the use of different herbs to cure diseases at the Kenyan coast in Ukunda, Kenya July 2007. A multi-sectoral approach will allow health systems use both modern and traditional medicine for more than 80 per cent of the populat
  • A traditional doctor explains the use of different herbs to cure diseases at the Kenyan coast in Ukunda, Kenya July 2007. A multi-sectoral approach will allow health systems use both modern and traditional medicine for more than 80 per cent of the populat
  • Tabile Dlamini and her daughter Smangele Dlamini, 26, laugh as Sethu Motsa drinks. Not long ago, Smangele was bedridden with HIV/Aids, but is now so well, since starting ART treatment, that she is able to help out in the garden and look after her 6-year-o
  • Hlengiwe Khumalo, 13, arrives home with maize, a blanket and other supplies, from a Red Cross distribution centre, in an settlement near Manzini, Swaziland. Since her mother died last year, Khumalo and her seven siblings live without parents.
  • Hlengiwe Khumalo, 13, walks home with maize, a blanket and other supplies, from a Red Cross distribution centre, in a settlement near Manzini, Swaziland. Since her mother died last year, Khumalo and her seven siblings live without parents.
  • Former deputy president Jacob Zuma.
    South African President Jacob Zuma
  • Former deputy president Jacob Zuma. Police.
  • Trader, bus.
    Undocumented migrants risk more than arrest

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