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  • [Pakistan] Seven months after the earthquake the access road to Sarli Sacha is blocked by new landslides and rockfall. Water and electricity supply is damaged and people struggle to make use of the compensation provided for rebuilding. [Date picture take
    Seven months after the earthquake the access road to Sarli Sacha is blocked by new landslides and rockfall. Water and electricity supply is damaged and people struggle to make use of the compensation provided for rebuilding
  • [Guinea-Bissau] These women shared two to a bed in the maternity of ward of Guinea Bissau's main hospital, the Simao Mendes Hospital, in Bissau. [Date picture taken: 05/24/2006]
    These two women had to sleep two to a bed in the maternity ward of Simao Mendes Hospital, Bissau
  • [Guinea-Bissau] The ferry over the Cacheu River linking the main road between the capital Bissau and Sao Domingos in the north. [Date picture taken: 05/24/2006]
    The aging and crowded ferry that crossed the Casheu River linking the main route north
  • [Guinea-Bissau] The former presidential palace and one-time colonial governor's residence is abandoned and missing its roof which was blown off by coup-makers in the 1998/ 99 civil war. [Date picture taken: 05/24/2006]
    The former presidential palace, now derelict after the roof was blown off in the civil war seven years ago
  • [Guinea-Bissau] The port at Bissau is silted up and littered with rusted and semi-sunked ships. [Date picture taken: 05/24/2006]
    The port at Bissau is a ship's gravyard
  • [Guinea-Bissau] Prime Minister Aristides Gomes in his office in Bissau. [Date picture taken: 05/30/2006]
    Prime Minister Aristides Gomes in his office in Bissau
  • [Pakistan] MERLIN’s cluster of clinic tents and living accommodation for their staff is perched high on an outcrop of rock near the Indian border. [Date picture taken: 03/21/2006]
    MERLIN’s cluster of clinic tents and living accommodation for their staff is perched high on an outcrop of rock near the Indian border
  • [Pakistan] A man and woman discuss leaving the relative security of tented camp-life to return to their village. For many the problems of recovery have only begun in a context where poverty and in some case discrimination is the backdrop to their lives.
    A man and woman discuss leaving the relative security of tented camp-life to return to their village. For many the problems of recovery have only begun in a context where poverty and in some case discrimination is the backdrop to their lives
  • [Pakistan] A hospital being built in March 2006 in Balakot, NWF, claiming to use earthquake resistant materials. Despite the distribution of compensation money to affected families and the introduction of new building codes it is hard to see how they will
    A hospital being built in March 2006 in Balakot, NWF, claiming to use earthquake resistant materials. Despite the distribution of compensation money to affected families and the introduction of
  • [Pakistan] Only the courtyard remains of a huge mosque in Balakot- a town entirely destroyed by the earthquake and on live seismic faultlines. Despite the destruction prayer mats are laid out across the yard in what is an intensely religious society. [Dat
    Only the courtyard remains of a huge mosque in Balakot- a town entirely destroyed by the earthquake and on live seismic faultlines. Despite the destruction prayer mats are laid out across the yard in what is an intensely religious society
  • [Pakistan] Boys in al-Islah rock back and forth as they recite Urdu words.
    Boys in al-Islah rock back and forth as they recite Urdu words
  • [Pakistan] Girls are taught separately despite the earthquake. Unlike the tens of boys nearby in the open-air classroom, only two girls were attending classes in Sarli Sacha village this day(March 2006). They sit facing the blackboard in the rubble that w
    Girls are taught separately despite the earthquake. Unlike the tens of boys nearby in the open-air classroom, only two girls were attending classes in Sarli Sacha village this day(March 2006).
  • [Afghanistan] Chickens and birds continue to be sold openly on the Kabul market. [Date picture taken: 04/24/2006]
    Domestic poultry are everywhere in Afghanistan, the chance of transmission of bird flu to humans is real
  • [Guinea-Bissau] The former presidential palace and one-time colonial governor's residence is abandoned and missing its roof which was blown off by coup-makers in the 1998/ 99 civil war. [Date picture taken: 05/24/2006]
    Marcas de bala no palácio presidencial: guerra trouxe retrocesso a Guiné-Bissau
  • [Guinea-Bissau] Chief fire officer Malam Djaura watches Guinea Bissau's only fire-fighting vehicle start up. Picture taken in Bissau. [Date picture taken: 05/28/2006]
    Le colonel Malam Djaura regardant un collègue démarrer le seul véhicule encore en état de marche à la brigade des sapeurs pompiers de Guinée Bissau
  • [Pakistan] When disaster strikes: the response to the South Asian earthquake IRIN In-Depth.
  • [Pakistan] The Line of Control passes through these Kashmir mountains - scene of decades of dispute between India and Pakistan. Goodwill prevailed in the immediate aftermath of the disaster but it proved to be short-lived. [Date picture taken: 03/21/2006]
    The power of rushing water
  • [Pakistan] "The opportunity must be seized to raise those affected out of the poverty that existed before the earthquake," said Oxfam.
    “The opportunity must be seized to raise those affected out of the poverty that existed before the earthquake,” said Oxfam
  • [Pakistan] Typically, for example, the poorest in any community will have the weakest housing structures, the most fragile livelihoods, the least access to quality healthcare and services, and the least means of survival and escape. [Date picture taken: 0
    Typically, for example, the poorest in any community will have the weakest housing structures, the most fragile livelihoods, the least access to quality healthcare and services, and the least means of survival and escape
  • [Egypt] A fire destroyed the first floor of al-Ghad party headquarters. [Date picture taken: 06/08/2006]
  • [Pakistan] A 40.5 kg bag of wheat flour is delivered each month to residents of the Eid Gha displaced persons camp in Muzaffarabad. [Date picture taken: 06/06/2006]
  • [Pakistan] Two residents at the Eid Gha displaced persons camp in quake-hit Muzaffarabad receive a monthly WFP food assistance package. [Date picture taken: 06/07/2006]
  • [Pakistan] A military helicopter ready for use one misty morning in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan. Pakistan provided over 60% of the helicopters and airlift strength that created the air bridge to affected communities for months after the earthquake. [Date pictu
  • [Egypt] Protests calling for reform have been gaining stead over recent weeks. [Date picture taken: 06/08/2006]
    Protests calling for reform have been gaining stead over recent weeks
  • [Pakistan] Seven months after the quake, school-children in Sarli Sacha, Neelum Valley, Azam Kashmir province, sit outside on the rubble that was once their school. [Date picture taken: 03/21/2006]
    Seven months after the quake, school-children in Sarli Sacha, Neelum Valley, Azam Kashmir province, sit outside on the rubble that was once their school
  • [Pakistan] Reciting the Qu'uran in a Madrassa in Pakistani-Administered Kashmir. Countless unmonitored charitable outfits and religious groups have stepped in to fill the official educational vacuum. ‘Madrassas’ are learning centres with a tradition t
    Reciting the Qu'uran in a Madrassa in Pakistani-Administered Kashmir. Countless unmonitored charitable outfits and religious groups have stepped in to fill the official educational vacuum.
  • [Pakistan] Lucky girls like these are able to continue to go to school, despite the earthquake. [Date picture taken: 04/dd/2006]
    Only ten percent or rural women receive schooling in Balochistan
  • [Pakistan] A woman waits for her operation in one of the 32 high-tech Cuban field hospitals which reportedly treated more than a million patients during the months thy worked in post-earthquake Pakistan.
    A woman waits for her operation in one of the 32 high-tech Cuban field hospitals which reportedly treated more than a million patients during the months thy worked in post-earthquake Pakistan
  • [Pakistan] Cuban GP, Usmani Ramos, explains how to take medicine. Usmani was one doctor of a total group of 2,500 medics sent from Cuba to assist Pakistan after the earthquake.
    Cuban GP, Usmani Ramos, explains how to take medicine. Usmani was one doctor of a total group of 2,500 medics sent from Cuba to assist Pakistan after the earthquake
  • [Uganda] Guns being burnt in Jinja, Uganda, as part of an initiative to combact the flow of weapons in the country. [Date picture taken: June 2006]
  • [Pakistan] A poster in the earthquake zone illustrating the level of violent extremism felt by the locals concerning India. Despite predominantly anti-western feelings of the area there were no security incidents even though thousands of foreigners worked
  • [Pakistan] Residents at a displaced persons camp in quake-hit Muzaffarabad await a WFP food distribution. [Date picture taken: 06/06/2006]
    Residents at the Eid Gha displaced persons camp in quake-hit Muzaffarabad line up for a monthly WFP food ration

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