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  • West African rice varieties are indigenous and farmers have developed farming techniques over hundreds, possibly thousands of years (Buba, capital of Quinara Region in southern Guinea Bissau, 26 Jan 2007)
    West African rice varieties are indigenous and farmers have developed farming techniques over hundreds, possibly thousands of years, Buba, capital of Quinara Region in southern Guinea Bissau, 26 January 2007
  • [Kenya] A boy displays a banner calling for improvements to healthcare on the final day of the World Social Forum in Nairobi, 25 January 2007. The forum ended with participants hailing the event as an opportunity for people from around the world to exchan
  • [Guinea] Map. [Downloaded 24/Jan/07 from Wikipedia; public domain]
  • Roads are bad in southern Guinea Bissau even in the dry season. During the wet season the only way WFP could deliver food to many areas was by canoe (Quinara Regioon in southern Guinea Bissau)
    Roads are bad in southern Guinea Bissau even in the dry season. During the wet season the only way WFP could deliver food to many areas was by canoe (Quinara Regioon in southern Guinea Bissau)
  • A general scene of the start of the run held to mark the end of the World Social Forum, Nairobi 25 January 2007. The run went through Kibera and Mathare, some of the biggest slums in Africa.
    World Social Forum, Nairobi, Kenya
  • [Guinea] Markets in Conakry start to come back to life after a two strike. [Date picture taken: 01/25/2007]
  • Acting chief of the village of Bedanda Nhinna na N’tchama said. “To get rice we sold our tools, our clothes and all our domestic animals. Quinara Region in southern Guinea Bissau 25 January 2005
  • The land is perfect for rice growing as long as the sea water doesn’t spill over the traditional dyke system , Quinara Region in southern Guinea Bissau 25 January 2005
    The land is perfect for rice growing as long as the sea water doesn’t spill over the traditional dyke system , Quinara Region in southern Guinea Bissau 25 January 2005
  • Fatou Nasanha and her two sons thrashing rice at Bedanda in southern Guinea Bissau, 25 January 2007.  “We like to eat rice but it’s easy to grow cashews.”
    Fatou Nasanha and her two sons thrashing rice at Bedanda in southern Guinea Bissau, 25 January 2007
  • [Kenya] Duncan Otieno, on the final day of the World Social Forum, Nairobi, 25 January 2007.
  • [Kenya] Amina Yussuf, a standard seven girl in Sankuri Primary Scholl receives a mosquito net donated by the UK Helston-Lizard rotary club in Garissa, Kenya, 25 January 2007.
    Amina Yussuf receives a mosquito net in Garissa, Kenya, donated by the UK Helston-Lizard Rotary Club.
  • [Iraq] Former Ba'athist official Mustafa Bakri has lost his family, house and friends and now begs in the streets. [Date picture taken: 01/24/2007]
    Former Ba'athist official Mustafa Bakri has lost his family, house and friends and now begs in the streets.
  • [Thailand] Map. [Downloaded 24/Jan/07 from Wikipedia; public domain]
  • [Sudan] Harvest from the river. Elderly Maker Yok, an early arrivee from Khartoum, smiles at pieces of cat fish he has just caught from river in Ganyliel. [Date picture taken: 11/01/2006]
  • [Iraq] The shrine of Imam Hussein in Karbala.  [Date picture taken: 01/25/2007]
    The shrine of Imam Hussein in Karbala.
  • [Afghanistan] A civilian injured in NATO air strikes in Uruzgan province. [Date picture taken: 09/15/2006]
    Injured civilian, Afghanistan, Jan 07
  • [South Africa] Condoms. [Date picture taken: 01/25/2007]
    Levi's branded condoms are popular with young people
  • [Afghanistan] Displaced villages in Panjawyi district. [Date picture taken: 09/15/2006]
  • [Iraq] Rula lost her will to live when her fiance dumped her after she lost a leg in an explosion. [Date picture taken: 01/23/2007]
    Rula lost her will to live after her fiance dumped her because she lost a leg in an explosion.
  • [Afghanistan] Map of Afghanistan highlighting Kandahar. [Date picture taken: 01/24/2007]
  • [Kenya] Wangari Maathai, the 2004 Nobel peace price winner for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace, on the fourth day of the World Social Forum held in Nairobi, Kenya, 23 January 2007.
    Wangari Maathai, prix Nobel de la paix, a appelé de ses vœux la mise en place de cadres juridiques favorisant les politiques environnementales (photo d’archives)
  • [Lebanon] A man passes by a burning car, Beirut, 23 January 2007. Thousands of Lebanese demonstrators blocked main roads in the capital and around the country, burning rubble and tyres, protesting against the government
  • [Lebanon] A crowd watches the roadblocks burn, Beirut, 23 January 2007. Thousands of Lebanese demonstrators blocked main roads in the capital and around the country, burning rubble and tyres, protesting against the government.
    A crowd watches the roadblock burn, Beirut
  • [Iraq] Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein talks after his capture in 2004. [Date picture taken: 09/11/2004]
    Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein came from Tikrit, the capital of Salah ad-Din province.
  • [Kenya] Participants at the World Social Forum dance and display a banner depicting the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, on the fourth day of the forum in Nairobi, Kenya, 23 January 2007. Chavez plans to nationalise the country’s major industries.
  • [Kenya] The Sudan Workers Trade Union Force demonstrating against foreign military intervention in Darfur, western Sudan, on the fourth day of the World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, 23 January 2007. The United Nations has proposed boosting the incumben
  • [Iraq] A map of Iraq highlighting Salah ad-Din province. [Date picture taken: 01/23/2007]
    A map of Iraq highlighting Salah ad-Din province.
  • [Iraq] The Iraqi Red Crescent has resumed work in the capital though it is keeping a low profile for security reasons. [Date picture taken: 01/22/2007]
    The Iraqi Red Crescent resumes work in the capital
  • [Iraq] Lina Massufi is fed up because her house in Baghdad has been raided by US and Iraqi soldiers more than 12 times in the past three months. [Date picture taken: 01/21/2007]
    Lina Massufi is fed up because her house in Baghdad has been raided by US and Iraqi soldiers more than 12 times in the past three months.
  • [Lebanon] One-year-old Banine normally walks barefoot in the house so as not to disturb the neighbours. [Date picture taken: 01/21/2007]
  • [Lebanon] The ceiling in the Kazim's temporary residence in the southern suburbs of Beirut. [Date picture taken: 01/21/2007]
    The ceiling in the Kazim's temporary residence in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
  • [DRC] Congolese dissident army general, Laurent Nkunda, who recently agreed to hold talks with the Congolese government, Congo, 20 January 2007.  He has been waging a rebellion in eastern DRC, where he controls about 2,000 men.

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