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  • Part of Merkato market selling tomatoes, onions and potatoes, May 2007. Ethiopia's agricultural production is low and poverty levels are high.
  • A customer gets help selecting a cabbage in Merkato market Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 2007. Apart from green vegetables, the market offers a huge range of other items, including traditional Ethiopian artwork.
  • Part of Merkato market in Addis Ababa, May 2007. The market is possibly one of the largest in Africa, covering nearly two square kilometres.
  • Yehia Al-Dhamari, 80, rarely ventures beyond the walls of old Sana'a. Rapid urbanisation has seen the Yemeni capital grow by as much as 8 percent a year.
  • Many residents of Sana'a, the Yemeni capital, purchase their water from private venders like this found throughout the city.
  • There has been an upsurge in construction activities in the Yemeni capital, where urbanisation has seen the city grow by as much as 8 percent a year.
  • Yehia Al-Dhamari, 80, rarely ventures beyond the walls of old Sana'a. Rapid and unchecked urbanisation has seen the Yemeni capital grow by as much as 8 percent a year.
  • Yehia Al-Dhamari, 80, rarely ventures beyond the walls of old Sana'a. Rapid and unchecked urbanisation has seen the Yemeni capital grow by as much as 8 percent a year.
  • Rapidly depleting water resources has forced residents of Sana'a to buy water from private sources. Water levels are dropping by 6 metres a year in the Yemeni capital.
  • Haider Mohammed Alsady, a 21-year-old university student in Sana'a, says water never comes to his house - a fact forcing him to purchase water from the outside. Only 15 to 25 percent of residents drink from the city's official water network, relying inste
  • Urban sprawl in the Yemeni capital Sana'a. The city is growing at a rate of between 7 and 8 percent a year.
  • Abdul-Ghani Jamil, deputy governor of Sana'a, cites water as the root problem of many of his province's problems. The Yemeni capital faces a severe water crisis, fueled by growing urbanisation and internal migration from rural areas of the country.
  • Typhoid fever, bacillary dysentery, intestinal amoebas and diarrhoea are diseases whose parasites are found in human excretion.
  • As there are few public toilets in the capital, many Afghans relieve themselves in secluded areas such as Kabul River.
  • 10-year commemoration of the first public abandonment of female genital mutilation in the Senegalese village of Malicounda Bambara.
  • Black diamond - upwardly mobile young women in SA.
  • Black diamond - upwardly mobile young women in SA.
  • Kenya Assistant Minister for internal Security, Peter Munya, talks to jounalists during launch of the, Photo Exhibition against Illicit Small Arms in Gigiri, Nairobi, Kenya, 10 August 2007.
  • Kenyan Assistant Minister for Internal Security, Peter Munya, talks to journalists during the launch of a photo exhibition dubbed Crush of illicit trade of small arms in Gigiri, Nairobi, 10 August 2007.
  • A participant looks at the photos on display at UN complex Gigiri, 10 August 2007. This was during the launch of the photo exhibition dubbed Crush the illicit trade in Small Arms.
  • Local music stars entertain a large crowd in central Freetown, Sierra Leone, 6 August, calling for non-violence ahead of the country's presidential elections on 11 August 2007.
  • A policeman uses a poster to show a woman how to mark a ballot correctly in Freetown, Sierra Leone on 6 August, days ahead of the country's presidential elections on 11 August 2007.
  • Policewomen control the crowd beside a banner for the People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) party during their final campaign rally in Victoria Park, central Freetown, Sierra Leone, 7 August 2007, ahead of the country's presidential elections on
  • Regina prepares the family's share of food from WFP during the distribution of the return rations on 7, August, 2007, at Awer camp of the displaced. Thousands want to return, but few would venture out as families are divided over the returns.
    Regina prepares the family's share of food from WFP during the distribution of the return rations on 7, August, 2007, at Awer camp of the displaced. Thousands want to return, but few would venture out as families are divided over the returns.
  • Nineteen wounded people were brought to Bhust hospital on 2 August though all its 100 beds were occupied by other patients, according to officials.
  • A victim of 2 August aerial bombing lying on a hard floor at Bhust hospital in Helmand Province.
  • UN Under-Secretary-General John Holmes and Sri Lankan Disaster Management and Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe at a 9 August press conference in Colombo.
  • Politicians deliver more by way of posters than services, Tebbaneh's residents say.
  • Mohammed Al-Jassem holds a picture of his dead son, killed by the Lebanese army as an alleged Fatah al-Islam militant.
  • Truancy and child labour are endemic in poor parts of Tripoli.
  • Peter and Regina Robongonye at their newly built hut in northern Uganda, August 2007. Hundreds have ventured out to start new life in their former home, but many are still fearful of their security in case the Juba peace process failed.
  • Hamdi Aman, 30, his paralysed daughter Maria, 6, and his son Mo'men, 4.

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