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  • [Guinea-Bissau] HIV/AIDS poster. [Date picture taken: June 2006]
  • [Somalia] Workers clean up a street in Mogadishu under a ILO-managed Employment for Peace project, August 2006.
    Workers clean up a street in Mogadishu under an ILO-managed Employment for Peace project
  • [Somalia] A heap of garbage in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, August 2006.
    Garbage heap in Mogadishu, Somali's capital. The United Nations International Labour Organization is running a project to clean up the streets.
  • [Sudan] A woman sews her clothes at the Lologo transit camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs), 30 km southeast of Juba, south Sudan, 28 September 2006. A north-south peace agreement signed in January 2005 ended 21 years of war in Sudan, paving the w
    Displaced woman in IDP camp outside Juba.
  • [Sudan] A boy looks at the camera at the Lologo transit camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs), 30 km southeast of Juba, south Sudan, 28 September 2006. A north-south peace agreement signed in January 2005 ended 21 years of war in Sudan, paving the
    While politicians talk in Abuja, violence in Darfur is peaking
  • [Zimbabwe] Women carrying wood in Zimbabwe's capital Harare to use for fuel after unprecedented power outages swept the county. [Date picture taken: 10/11/2006]
    Women collect firewood in the capital Harare
  • [Palestine] Children in Tulkarem refugee camp, Palestine, 1 November 2005.  Conditions in the camps are extremely hard. Children are attending four overcrowded schools and there is only one ambulance and one doctor. The camp has a population of 17,800 ref
  • [Jerusalem] The barrier wall to the East of Jerusalem, November 2005. According to the Israeli authorities the wall is a defensive measure, designed to block the passage of terrorists, weapons and explosives into the state of Israel. It controls the flow
  • [Jerusalem] Al-Haram Al-Sharif, Jerusalem, 5 August 2006. This is the world’s third holiest shrine to Muslims (after the Kaaba in Mecca and the Tomb of the Propher in Medina), it signifies the spot where the Prophet Muhammad is believed to have ascended
    The Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, known to Jews as Temple Mount, is crucially important to the two sides
  • [South Africa] South African Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula. He is also the facilitator in Burundi peace talks between the Front national de liberation and the government in Bujumbura. [Date picture taken: 10/11/2006]
    South Africa's Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula
  • [Sudan] Children play at the Lologo transit camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs), 30 km southeast of the southern Sudanese capital of Juba, 28 September 2006. A north-south peace agreement signed in January 2005 ended 21 years of war in Sudan, pav
    Children at a camp for the internally displaced in southern Sudan.
  • [Uganda] Radio Kitti FM on the air. [Date picture taken: 10/05/2006]
    Radio Kitti FM on the air
  • [Africa] HIV-positive immigrant in France. [Date picture taken: 10/05/2006]
    Patricia: Getting a new lease on life
  • [South Africa] Helena Olifant is one of dozens of volunteers for the Eye on a Child project, seen here with one of her three foster children. [Date picture taken: 10/05/2006]
    Helena Olifant, one of the volunteers for the Eye on a Child project, with one of her three foster children
  • [Lebanon] Dr Jawad Mahjour (right), WHO Representative in Lebanon, with Dr Alissar Rady, WHO National Professional Officer. [Date picture taken: 10/10/2006]
    Dr Jawad Mahjour (right), WHO Representative in Lebanon, with Dr Alissar Rady, WHO National Professional Officer.
  • [oPt] Armed men in Ramallah. [Date picture taken: 10/10/2006]
    Armed men in Ramallah.
  • Watchtower in the barrier, Bethlehem, January 2006. The  watchtower controls the flow in and out of the town - one person or vehicle at a time.
  •  The barrier around Ramallah, November 2005. According to the Israeli authorities the structure is a defensive measure, designed to block the passage of terrorists, weapons and explosives into the state of Israel.
  • [Syria] Water flows through Damascus drop drastically in the summer months. [Date picture taken: 10/09/2006]
    Water levels in Damascus drop drastically in the summer months.
  • Dr Mukesh Kapila, 
Special Representative of the Secretary General (HIV/AIDS)
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
    Dr Mukesh Kapila, Special Representative of the Secretary General (HIV/AIDS) International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
  • Dr Mukesh Kapila, 
Special Representative of the Secretary General (HIV/AIDS)
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
    Dr Mukesh Kapila, Special Representative of the Secretary General (HIV/AIDS) International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, urges donors "to move beyond rhetoric"
  • [Ghana] Ghanaian schools are struggling with overcrowding because of surging enrolment after school fees were dropped last year.
    Les écoles ghanéennes tentent de faire face à l'explosion des inscriptions, depuis la suppression des frais de scolarité l'année dernière
  • [Ivory Coast] Two boys search for anything usable in a dumpsite, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 25 September 2006. Residents have complained of symptoms they feared were linked to the dumping of 528,000 litres of liquid toxic waste. Many people are also seeking me
    Two boys scavenge at dumpsite in Abidjan. Residents have complained of symptoms they feared were linked to the 2006 dumping of toxic waste.
  • [South Africa/Somali] After mass looting forced her to flee the Masiphumelele township in August, Riqiyou Yusuf, 31, reopened her store for the first time last week. She is waiting to see whether the local Somali community and the neighborhood's business
  • [South Africa/Somali] Ali Yusef, 29, says attacks on Somalis has escalated in recent months. [Date picture taken: 10/05/2006]
  • [South Africa/Somali] After mass looting forced her to flee the Masiphumelele township in August, Riqiyou Yusuf, 31, reopened her store for the first time last week. She is waiting to see whether the local Somali community and the neighborhood's business
  • [South Africa/Somali] After mass looting forced her to flee the Masiphumelele township in August, Riqiyou Yusuf, 31, reopened her store for the first time last week. She is waiting to see whether the local Somali community and the neighborhood's business
  • [South Africa/Somali] Abdi Hassan, 37, fled violence in three provinces before returning to the Cape Town region. His own experience of violence has bred a deep distrust of local South Africans. [Date picture taken: 10/05/2006]
    UNHCR is concerned about the number of attacks on Somalis in South Africa. Abdi Hassan, 37, fled violence in three provinces before returning to the Cape Town region.
  • [Ghana] Students learn on their own at Saint Thomas Aquinas Secondary School. [Date picture taken: 10/01/2006]
    Students learn on their own at Saint Thomas Aquinas Secondary School.
  • [South Africa/Somali] Abdi Agakonbo, 35, fled the war in Mogadishu last year and traveled penniless for three months to get to Cape Town. Once here, he was dismayed to find Somalis victims of widespread violence. [Date picture taken: 10/05/2006]
    Abdi Agakonbo, 35, fled the war in Mogadishu last year and traveled penniless for three months to get to Cape Town
  • [Liberia] Despite the end of the civil war in Liberia, thousands of Liberian refugees
have yet to go home. IRIN Radio report on the Buduburam settlement in Ghana. [Date picture taken: 09/21/2006]
    Réfugiés libériens dans un camp de Buduburam au Ghana
  • [Ivory Coast] A waste-removal expert in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 25 September 2006. Eight deaths are attributed to the hazardous dumping of toxic chemical waste in Côte d’Ivoire and 78,000 people sought medical care. The crisis began when a ship unloaded
    A waste-removal expert in Abidjan, Ivory Coast

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