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  • queuing to get food at Oromi IDP camp, Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 18 May 2007. Most IDPs are women and children.
  • A young girl dragging a sack of food at the Oromi IDP camp, Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 18 May 2007. In April, WFP was forced to reduce the individual food aid package for the displaced to just 40 percent of the minimum daily energy requirement beca
  • Families carrying home their share of food, Oromi IDP camp, Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 18 May 2007. WFP gives IDPs partial rations to supplement what they can grow near the camps.
  • 16-year-old Alfred Lokolia from Lakuare village stands by Ugandan Defence Force soldiers at Oromi in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 19 May 2007. Alfred was mutilated during an attack in his village by LRA rebels in 2004.
  • Women carrying cartons of oil to the distribution site at Oromi IDP camp, Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 18 May 2007. WFP is to maintain the 40 percent ration for 1.28 million displaced in northern Uganda, and reduced rations for refugees, until its fo
    Women carrying cartons of oil to the distribution site at Oromi IDP camp, Kitgum District, northern Uganda
  • An old woman showing her WFP card in order to get rations at Oromi IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 18 May 2007. It is estimated that people not assisted by WFP can meet only 20 percent of their minimum food requirements for survival.
  • Refugees help unload food from a truck, Oromi IDP camp, Kitgum.District, northern Uganda, 18 May 2007. IDPs can grow some food on land near the camps to supplement what WFP gives them.
  • WFP convoy carrying food to Oromi IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 18 May 2007. WFP currently provides assistance to over two million internally displaced people in northern Uganda of whom 80 percent are women and children.
  • A view of Omiya-Anyima IDP camp, northern Uganda, 17 May 2007. Since only gazetted camps are eligible to receive official humanitarian assistance, tens of thousands of IDPs in camps in Uganda receive little or no assistance.
  • An Albino boy carries a baby in Oromi IDP camp, Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 17 May 2007. Each segment of the civilian population in the north faces its own horrors. Boys are kidnapped by the LRA and brutally indoctrinated into life as soldiers.
    An Albino boy carries a baby in Oromi IDP camp, Kitgum District, northern Uganda
  • Farmers in Omiya-Anyima IDP camp, Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 16 May 2007. Instability and relocation has prevented farming in many cases and has resulted in a food shortage amongst the displaced, although some are able to cultivate in their new loc
  • Women carrying water from a bore hole near Oromi IDP camp, in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 16 May 2007. Women often leave the immediate confines of the camps to search for firewood, tend small gardens, collect water, or perform other domestic duties.
  • A young man performing a traditional dance at Namokora IDP camp, Kitgum district, northern Uganda, 15 May 2007. Kitgum is a sprawling settlement of 17,000 people.
  • Yousef Abu Radi, 12, was hit by shrapnel when a civilian bus fleeing Nahr al-Bared came under fire. His mother died in the incident.
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  • Several million South Africans are homeless.
  • Ameerah Haq, UN humanitarian affairs coordinator, says insurgency in the south of Afghanistan has increased humanitarian needs.
  • A member of the Somali troops stopping a car to check for explosives, 22 May 2007. People displaced by the recent fighting in Somalia, the worst in 16 years, are gradually returning to parts of the capital, Mogadishu, but fear is preventing others fro
  • Children in the northeastern commune of Morafeno follow classes under a tree while community members work to rebuild the school destroyed by floods.
  • A Somali soldier near a building destroyed in recent fighting between the government and insurgents, Mogadishu, Somalia, 22 May 2007. Most displaced people cannot return home because their houses have been destroyed by mortar shelling, or because they c
  • A Somali military official searches a motorist for weapons, Mogadishu, Somalia, 22 May 2007. People displaced by the recent fighting in Somalia - the worst in 16 years - are gradually returning to parts of the capital, Mogadishu, but fear is preventing o
  • Construction work for the Southern Sudan Commission for Census, Statistics and Evaluation, Rumbek, Sudan, May 2007.
  • The long form of the Sudan census questionnaire, Sudan, May 2007.
  • IT offficer Majok Bol of Southern Sudan's census commission, Sudan, May 2007.
  • Children pose for a photo on a hill overlooking Omiya- Anyima IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 17 May 2007.
    Children pose for a photo on a hill overlooking Omiya- Anyima IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda
  • N. A. Kahawita (left) and Upul Baduge, members of the community-based organisation, in the pump house of the Seenimodera Water Supply Project funded by the Australian Red Cross.
  • Asoka Dharmasuriya, who used to queue for hours at a distant bore well, now has sufficient water for her family’s needs.
  • Some 90,000 IDP began their return to their villages in Batticaloa West in eastern Sri Lanka on 14 May. Intense fighting in March between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeelam had forced them to flee. These IDPs. in a welfare camp in
  • Some 90,000 IDP began their return to their villages in Batticaloa West in eastern Sri Lanka on 14 May. Intense fighting in March between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeelam had forced them to flee. These IDPs. in a welfare camp in
  • An elderly lady arrives at Kawkab School in Beddawi camp where an estimated 10,000 Palestinians from Nahr al-Bared have fled.
  • The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday distributed food parcels to last five days for 3,000 people in Kawkab School.
  • Bissan al-Saadi fled with her family at dawn on Wednesday after her home was hit during the bombardment of Nahr al-Bared camp by the Lebanese army.

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