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  • Charles Maziya.
  • A close up of wheat stem rust.
  • Neglected ethnic groups demand self-determination in the Himalayan nation.
  • Nigerians queue to vote in nationwide governor and state elections, while police stand guard at a polling station, Lagos, 14 April 2007. Voting was due to start at 8am, but due to poor organisation many polling stations were up and running 2 hours late. T
  • Nigerians queue to vote in nationwide governor and state elections, Lagos, 14 April 2007 . Voting was due to start at 8am, but due to poor organisation many polling stations were up and running 2 hours late.  The gubernatorial elections, which local obser
  • Igira Maria sits with her young son Logel who had his leg amputated after being attacked by raiders whilst looking after the family's cattle in Karamoja, eastern Uganda, March 2007. Uganda's government launched a disarmament programme in the region last y
  • Amos Ndwandwe
  • Officials of Nigeria's electoral commission count ballot papers after a day of voting in nationwide governor and state elections at a polling station, Lagos,14 April 2007.  Tension and violence in the weeks before polling day was blamed by some observers
  • WFP food distribution in Moroto, northeastern Uganda, March 2007. The problem of food shortages in the northeastern region highlights a need to increase monitoring and data collection of food production, marketing, and consumption in the region.
    WFP food distribution in Moroto, Uganda
  • A man waits for a minibus beside a campaign poster the day before the gubernatorial elections, Lagos, 13 April 2007. One week later on 21 April 61 million Nigerian voters will again go to the polls to choose a new president in what will be the country's f
    A man stands near a campaign poster, Nigeria
  • A boy writes during class, Moroto district, northeastern Uganda, March 2007. Despite the introduction of countrywide education in Uganda in the 1930s, Karamoja has not readily embraced it.
  • Karamojong warriors during a disarmament exercise in northeastern Uganda, March 2007. Uganda's government launched a disarmament programme in the region last year, targeting some 30,000 weapons held by herdsmen.
    Karamojong warriors during a disarmament exercise in northeastern Uganda
  • A girl carries water, northeastern Uganda, March 2007. As elsewhere in Africa, the population in eastern Uganda continues to grow as the environment deteriorates, putting more and more pressure on land that grows ever drier. Environmentalists have warned
    A girl carries an empty water jerrycan in northeastern Uganda
  • Samaa Tamimi holds a photo of her husband Ahmed, who is in an Israeli prison and needs a $90,000 kidney transplant which the Israeli authorities do not want to pay for.
  • Max Mkandla is a former freedom fighter and leader of the Zimbabwe Liberators Peace Initiative.
  • Ktziot prison in the Negev Desert, where Ahmed Tamimi and other Palestinian prisoners are held.
  • Girl waiting for mother outside Faizabad maternity hospital, Afghanistan, March 2007.
  • Fishermen in Sierra Leone complain that foreign trawlers are depleting the country's fish.
  • Musa Sankoh, a fisherman in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown.
  • A prison cell
  • Former rebels and the national army have completed registration of arms with UN help.
  • G. Badra cries holding a picture of her missing husband during a meeting of the Civil Monitoring Committee in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 2007. More than 1,000 civilians have been abducted in the last 16 months, according to the country’s Human Rights Com
  • Relatives of abducted civilians cry while holding pictures of their loved ones during a meeting of the Civil Monitoring Committee in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 2007. More than 1,000 civilians have been abducted in the last 16 months, according to the count
    Relatives of abducted civilians in despair, Sri Lanka
  • IDP children, originally from Trinomalee District, at play at the Kiliveddy Transit Center in Muttur Division, Sri Lanka, April 2007. The IDP's have recently returned from Batticaloa District.
  • Trincomalee IDPs, who have recently returned from Batticaloa at the Kiliveddy Transit Center in Muttur Division, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, April 2007. The armed conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has e
  • An Internally Dispalced Person (IDP), recently returned from Batticaloa District, prepares a meal in a shelter area at the transit center in Kiliveddy, Tricomalee District, Sri Lanka, April 2007.
  • A volunteer teacher helps children with their studies at a child-friendly space in the Kiliveddy Transit Centre for IDP families in Mutter Division, Trincomolee District, Sri Lanka, April 2007.The armed conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the L
    A volunteer teacher helps children with their studies at a child-friendly space in the Kiliveddy Transit Centre for IDP families in Mutter Division, Trincomolee District, Sri Lanka
  • Achim Steiner, Executive Director for UNEP giving a speech during opening of the 21st session of the governing council of the UN Habitat in Nairobi, Kenya, 16 April 2007. The session focused on the theme of Sustainable Urbanisation: local action for urban
  • Dr Etienne Dolido is the technical representative of Ales in CAR on mission, CAR, 12 April 2007.The fight against leprosy in CAR began several decades ago, but has been hampered by a politico-military crisis which started in 1997.
  • Two people show their fingers, disfigured by leprosy, CAR, 12 April 2007. The fight against leprosy in CAR began several decades ago, but has been hampered by a politico-military crisis which started in 1997.
  • A woman working in a stone quarry holding her young baby, Zambia, 7 March 2007. Women are disadvantaged in both employment and education in Zambia, including in terms of lower remuneration and inferior conditions of employment.
    A woman working in a stone quarry holding her young baby, Zambia, 7 March 2007. Women are disadvantaged in both employment and education in Zambia, including in terms of lower remuneration and inferior conditions of employment.
  • A young boy breaks stones at a quarry, Zambia, 7 March 2007.  Over 90% of child labourers earn as little as US $3 a month, especially in the Eastern Province.
    A young boy breaks stones at a quarry in Zambia's eastern province

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