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  • The world’s six largest tin mine closed in the 1980s. Dawda Dyek used to work as a machinist at its once state-of-the-art workshop but is now just doing odd jobs, Nigeria, 4 April 2007. With the tin mine closed, and massive corruption diverting what res
  • View of Jos from Hill Station, a holiday resort built for British colonial administrators and their families, Nigeria, 4 April 2007. Now it is in disrepair. The cool climate, high in the rocky outcrops of central Nigeria, made this city a favourite destin
  • Inuwa Ali ‘Turakin Jos’, the head of the Muslim Hausa community in Jos, points to a photo of better days when he was appointed local councillor, Jos, Nigeria, 4 April 2007. Now, according to him, few Muslims hold political office in Plateau State.
    Inuwa Ali ‘Turakin Jos’, the head of the Muslim Hausa community in Jos, points to a photo of better days when he was appointed local councillor, Jos, Nigeria, 4 April 2007. Now, according to him, few Muslims hold political office in Plateau State
  • [Nepal] Many women in Nepal return to work immediately after giving birth, thereby increasing the risk of prolapse of developing. [Date picture taken: 09/04/2007]
  • [Afghanistan] Afghan police on duty in Kabul [Date picture taken: 09/04/2007]
  • Abu Ibrahim, national secretary of the Jasawa Development Association in front of his office at Congo Russia, Nigeria, 4 April 2007. He says if Christians think they can just get rid of Muslims in Jos they are mistaken.
    Abu Ibrahim, national secretary of the Jasawa Development Association in front of his office at Congo Russia, Nigeria, 4 April 2007. He says if Christians think they can just get rid of Muslims in Jos they are mistaken
  • [Nepal] Dr Danesh Dangal speaking with a  patient suffering from uterine prolapse in Kirtipur.  Prolapse is the leading cause of ill-health amongst women of reproductive and post-menopausal age in Nepal today. [Date picture taken: 09/04/2007]
  • Theatre poster for T3.
  • Oil company sign near Port Harcourt in the Niger Delta region.
  • Fresh oil spill near Port Harcourt in the Niger Delta region.
  • Prince Wegwu  Chairman of Wegwa youth association in the village of Aluu in Nigeria’s Niger Delta.
  • Daniel Wegwa, elder in the village of Aluu in Nigeria’s Niger Delta.
  • View of Jos from Hill Station, a holiday resort built for British colonial administrators and their families. Now it is in disrepair.
  • A drug seller at Ogbutu market in Enugu in eastern Nigeria where many of the drugs have been found to be fake.
  • A drug seller at Ogbutu market in Enugu in eastern Nigeria where many of the drugs have been found to be fake.
  • Fake drugs confiscated by the drug task force in Enugu market, eastern Nigeria.
  • One of these packets of the anti-malaria medicine Cortecxin is fake, says Simon Okpoko, chairman of task force to stop fake drug at Ogbutu market, Enugu, Eastern Nigeria.
  • Flooding 2007.
  • Hassan Khalid Hayderi, Iraq “Either you give us good marks or you will die"
  • Harare CBD, February 2007.
  • A billboard displaying a former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Chibi Dariye, Nigeria, 4 April 2007. He is believed to be hiding in Nigeria after skipping bail in the United Kingdom and being impeached in October by Plateau's state assembly. He is accus
  • Locals next to a billboard of the leading candidate for governor of Plateau State, Jonah David Jang, Nigeria, 4 April 2007. Jonah David Jang is trying not to offend Muslim voters while maintaining his Christian base Plateau is in the so-called Middle Belt
  • One of the billboards in the town plastered with campaign posters for the upcoming elections. Campaign posters for state and federal election set for April, Nigeria, 4 April 2007. In May 2006 the National Assembly threw out constitutional reform proposals
  • Signs pointing to the assortment of indigenous churches in Jos's Christian neighbourhoods, Jos, Nigeria, 4 April 2007. Plateau is in the so-called Middle Belt region of Nigeria, and its inhabitants are mainly Christian or animist minority groups living al
  • Caleb Ahima, secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria for the north-central zone, next to the car he uses for missionary work, 4 April 2007. He says he will do whatever he can to bring peace but that Muslims must not claim Plateau State as theirs
    Caleb Ahima, secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria for the north-central zone, next to the car he uses for missionary work, 4 April 2007. He says he will do whatever he can to bring peace but that Muslims must not claim Plateau State as theirs
  • Motorists pass a destroyed and deserted central market, Jos, Nigeria. 4 April 2007. Muslims and Christians blame each other for the fire that destroyed the market. The trigger for the flare-up was a wrangle between Christians and Muslims after a Christian
  • Human Rights League programme officer Shamaki Gad Peter looks at photos of recent massacres, 4 April 2007. He says the number of Muslims and Christians killed in Jos since 2001 could be 80,000 and more. Official sources say Nigerian authorities often supp
  • A billboard displays two candidates for the governor of Plateau state. One is a Christian candidate while the other is a Muslim, Jos, Nigeria, 4 April 2007. Plateau is in the so-called Middle Belt region of Nigeria, and its inhabitants are mainly Christia
  • A  view of residential houses on a slope in Damascus, Syria, 3 April 2007. Between four  and  five million people live in Damascus and its surrounding countryside, including  more than half a million Palestinian and Iraqi refugees, making it by far the mo
  • The view of Damascus from the squatter neighbourhood of Aysh Warrwa.
  • Some Sudanese refugees are working in kibbutzim - Israeli collective farms.
  • A washed up container rusts away in the main harbour of Moroni, the Comoros Union capital. Much needed development aid is being held back until the Anjouan crisis is resolved.

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