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  • Dr. Abdullah Abdulkarim Al-Arashi, executive manager of Yemen's AIDS Project Unit offers some advice to Alawi Bahumaid, who recently lost his job at a Norwegian oil company in Sana'a after his HIV status was disclosed. Despite Yemen having a low prevalenc
  • Mathare Valley slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Mathare is one of the biggest slums in Africa. 20 July 2007.
    Vue aérienne du bidonville de Mathare (photo d’archives) : Des infrastructures sanitaires inadaptées exposent les femmes à la violence sexuelle dans les bidonvilles
  • Children in front of computers at Serigne Amadou Aly Mbaye primary school in Medina, an inner suburb of Dakar
  • Willis “Booster” Mbatia, 27, who hopes to become a councilor in Mathare’s, Mabatini Ward. Nairobi, Kenya, 20 July 2007.
  • Martin Ndungu (right), the financial manager of KOCH Radio and Abdi Hussein, the deputy human resource manager in their studio during a live popular youth talent search programme “Wasanii Panel”, in Korogocho, Nairobi, Kenya. 20 July 2007.
  • Woman and child at nutritional center in Cote d'Ivoire.
  • The polluted Wadi Abu Naar river runs through Baqa al-Gharbiya (Western Baqa) and Baqa A-Sharqiya (Eastern Baqa) on either side of the green line border between Israel and the West Bank.
  • (HIV positive) Albertina Nhlabatsi keeps a memory book for her daughter.
  • A Baghdad police station bombed on 9 May 2007. Violence in Iraq has reached intolerable levels
  • A child cries in Jalalabad Hospital while a medic takes his blood for a malaria test.
  • A young Palestinian receives treatment in a UNRWA clinic in Jebel Al Hussein refugee camp in Amman.
  • The UNRWA headquarters in Amman.
  • Tattoos are becoming increasingly common in Iraq as people seek ways in which their bodies might be identified if they are killed and disfigured.
  • Destitute Afghan children.
  • Severe water pollution caused cholera outbreak in the capital risking lives of many residents.
  • Alaa Abdel Karim, 21, is the oldest resident in the Home of Hope orphanage in Kahale, in the mountains east of Beirut. Orphaned at a young age, Alaa was abused as a teenager by brothers he said forced him to sell drugs and have gay sex for money. After a
  • Sun rise in the capital Nairobi, Kenya, July 2007. A series of earth tremors originating from northern Tanzanian have caused panic in the within the vicinity.
  • A thick cloud hangs over the capital Nairobi, Kenya. A series of earth tremors originating from northern Tanzanian have caused panic in the within the vicinity.
  • Since 1999, the Lebanese Evangelical Society (LES) has run an orphanage in Kahale, in the mountains east of Beirut, which has been a place of sanctuary for hundreds of abandoned street children.
  • The Social Affairs Ministry has pledged US$200,000 to the Home of Hope, but Lebanon’s lengthy political crisis has crippled the government and hugely delayed the delivery of much-needed cash.
  • Aged six, Abdullah travelled with his brothers to Lebanon from the northern Syrian town of Raqqa, in search of work. Two years later, the malnourished, overworked boy spends his days picking through litter in the hope of finding things to sell. By night h
  • Displaced families at Our Lady of Refuge welfare camp in Nanthurai near Jaffna town. They have had to sell their jewelry, bicycles and radios to buy food, and are now eating just one or two meals a day.
  • Internally displaced people (IDP) at the Nanthurai welfare camp in Jaffna town. Because of a lack of food assistance and an inability to buy fish, eggs, chicken and other sources of protein, malnutrition has been on the increase in Jaffna district.
  • School kids at the Navanthurai RCTMS (Roman Catholic Tamil Mixed School). Health studies on the Jaffna peninsula have revealed a high incidence of borderline malnutrition in some schools.
  • Children with LTTE at a Tiger Rebel training camp.
  • Kher al-Baz, a Bedouin social worker and social planning expert.
  • Hussein al-Rafay`a, chairman of the Regional Council for Unrecognized Villages.
  • A high school in Segev Shalom. Children are studying in caravans as the
state-built buildings are too small.
  • The National Council of Churches in Kenya's office in Nakuru, Kenya, has been implementing successful activities in preventing politically instigated conflicts in the area. 10 July 2007.
  • Mwai Bititao, 74 years old IDP in Likia, Kenya, 9 July 2007. "I have lost everything," he says referring to the tribal conflicts in the area.
  • Water points are often points of tension among different communities. Molo, Kenya: 9 July 2007.
  • This road, near Likia, Kenya,  seperates lands attributed to Gikuyu and lands attributed to Kalenjin. 9 July 2007. The two communities have been involved in numerous clashes in the recent past.

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