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  • Number of displaced in 2014 by weather-related and geophysical hazards
  • A police officer checks the papers of a motorist in Cameroon's Far North region, following an increase in check points, which are an attempt to thwart potential Boko Haram attacks.
  • A displaced family in Cameroon's Mayo-Sava district sells dried leaves at a local market, something that has become their main source of income since fleeing Boko Haram.
  • A displaced Iraqi child stares out at his IDP camp in the northern Kurdistan region
  • Somaliland
  • Eleven-year-old Allan’s older brothers were slain by drug gangs in Guatemala. An influx of child migrants at the border last year has resulted in record numbers of minors being detained in Mexico.
  • Delegates at the third UN Financing for Development Conference (FFD3) in Addis, July 2015
  • A group of West African would-be migrants, who failed to complete their journey to Europe, await repatriation outside the International Organisation for Migrants' reception centre in Niamey, Niger.
  • A group of young men in Somaliland’s capital, Hargeisa, take a break from an informal football match. Youth unemployment in Somaliland is among the highest in the world at between 60 and 70 percent.
  • Delegates at the Third Intl Conference on Financing for Development in Addis, July 2015.
  • Ivan Kubarev, 61, shows the destroyed home of his elderly relatives in Triokhizbenka, who are now sheltering with him and his wife nearby.
    Ivan Kubarev, 61, shows the destroyed home of his elderly relatives in Triokhizbenka, who are now sheltering with him and his wife nearby.
  • An aid worker makes use of a boat to reach vulnerable people.
  • Children stand by an aid delivery from WFP.
  • Medical supplies at an Ebola treatment unit are clean and ready to use by humanitarian staffers in Liberia.
  • Camels are sometimes used to carry much-needed assistance.
  • UN air service uses helicopters to transport passengers to various locations such as South Sudan, Central African Republic and West Africa in 2014.
  • A man looks out over a lake.
  • According to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), there are 5,000 trucks, 70 aircraft and 20 ships delivering WFP food assistance around the planet at any given time.
  • After a two-year ordeal trying to reach Europe, Mohamed Hossien Geeldoon returned to Somaliland to try to convince other young people not to risk illegal migration.
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  • A Yemeni man sits outside the ruins of his home which was destroyed in an airstrike by the Saudi Arabian-led coalition
    A Yemeni man sits outside the ruins of his home destroyed by an airstrike shortly after the ceasefire was due to begin
  • Three Yemenis sit outside destroyed homes, shortly after an airstrike by the Saudi Arabian-led coalition. The attack came a day after a humanitarian truce failed to take hold.
    Three Yemenis inspect the damage to their homes in the capital Sanaa
  • Crude oil pollutes the Caunapí river, in Tumaco, in southwest Colombia, after the FARC guerrilla movement bombed the Trasandino pipeline on 11 June 2015. People depend on the river for their daily hygiene, laundry and food preparation.  Credit: Ombudsman
  •  Crude oil pollutes the Caunapí river, in Tumaco, in southwest Colombia, after the FARC guerrilla movement bombed the Trasandino pipeline on 11 June 2015. People depend on the river for their daily hygiene, laundry and food preparation.  Credit: Ombudsma
  • Crude oil pollutes the Caunapí river, in Tumaco, in southwest Colombia, after the FARC guerrilla movement bombed the Trasandino pipeline on 11 June 2015. People depend on the river for their daily hygiene, laundry and food preparation
  • Children hold signs
  • On 16 May, a man and two women look on as two girls run through a street lined with the rubble of destroyed houses in Bhimeshwar Municipality, Dolakha District, the epicentre of the 12 May earthquake
  • Aid workers at the United Nations mourn the death of a colleague killed
    Aid workers at the United Nations mourn the death of a colleague killed.
  • Children queue with containers to receive with water, in the city of Kenema in Kenema District, Sierra Leone.  March 2014
  • Helen Clark
    Helen Clark
  • Armed man near a Lebanese flag

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