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  • [Mauritania] Guiraye village, southern Mauritania close to the Senegal River. [Date picture taken: 07/14/2006]
    Mosques in Mauritania have been springing up since government control of religion was relaxed
  • [Mauritania] WFP cereal bank, keeping villagers alive in southern and central Mauritania. [Date picture taken: 07/13/2006]
    WFP cereal bank in Kaedi, southern Mauritania
  • [Mauritania] Cows - big business in Mauritania. [Date picture taken: 07/13/2006]
    The Sahara desert, no longer encroaching on Niger's land
  • [Mauritania] Donkeys are used for the gruelling trek across the desert to fetch water. [Date picture taken: 07/14/2006]
    Mauritania's desert has seen few tourists this past year than in previous years
  • [Mauritania] Romane village, perched in the arid Sahel belt, southern Mauritania. [Date picture taken: 07/14/2006]
    Village du sud de la Mauritanie
  • [Mauritania] Villagers at Romane village, southern Mauritania, desperate for rain. [Date picture taken: 07/14/2006]
    Life has become a fight for survival for many villagers, like these in Romane, southern Mauritania
  • [Mauritania] Villagers at Romane village, southern Mauritania, desperate for rain. [Date picture taken: 07/14/2006]
  • [Mauritania] Children in the El Mina slum, outskirts of Nouakchott. [Date picture taken: 07/16/2006]
    Enfants du bidonville d'El Mina, dans la banlieue de Nouakchott. Dans les vastes bidonvilles de la ville, la jeunesse marginalisée constitue un terreau fertile pour les groupes terroristes, ont prévenu les experts
  • [Mauritania] Rural migrant who fled to Nouakchott when food ran out embroidering shawls to sell at market, to support four children. [Date picture taken: 07/16/2006]
  • [Mauritania] Day after the first rains of the year, Brakna district, southern Mauritania. [Date picture taken: 07/15/2006]
  • [Mauritania] Mother and children in the El Mina slum, outskirts of Nouakchott. [Date picture taken: 07/16/2006]
  • [Mauritania] Hungry child at ward for malnourished children in Nouakchott. [Date picture taken: 07/16/2006]
    The worst cases might end up in a hospital like three year-old Yacob
  • [Mauritania] El Nima slum, outskirts of Nouakshott, host to migrants from the countryside. [Date picture taken: 07/16/2006]
    El Nima slum, outskirts of Nouakchott, Mauritania host to migrants from the countryside
  • [Mauritania] Romane village, woman back from hauling water, a 15km walk. [Date picture taken: 07/15/2006]
    A woman back from the day's 15 kilometre hike in 50 degree heat to fetch water.
  • [Congo] Ambroise Momona has been living with HIV for 17 years. [Date picture taken: June 2006]
    Pour Ambroise Momona, garantir la confidentialité est indispensable pour encourager les populations au dépistage
  • [Ghana] . [Date picture taken: 12/16/2005]
    Elubo lorry park, on the Ghana-Cote d'Ivoire border
  • [Ghana] Aflao border. [Date picture taken: 12/12/2005]
  • [Nepal] Women were instrumental in taking power back from the king and suffered greatly in the civil war, but have been virtually excluded from peace talks. [Date picture taken: 07/16/2006]
    Women were instrumental in taking power back from the king and suffered greatly in the civil war, but have been virtually excluded from peace talks
  • [Mauritania] Malnourished children in the El Mina slum on Nouakchott's outskirts. [Date picture taken: 07/16/2006]
    850 million people worldwide, many of them children, experience malnutrition
  • [Mauritania] Hungry child, El Mina slum, Nouakchott outskirts. [Date picture taken: 07/16/2006]
    West Africa is the worst place to be born in the world, with one in five children dying before age five
  • Residents of Hay Madi, a southern suburb of Beirut, salvage what remains of their homes and businesses as they flee after an Israeli air strike, 20 July 2006. Israeli warplanes dropped leaflets over this neighbourhoods warning residents to leave for their
  • The aftermath of Israeli attacks on Hay Madi, a southern suburb of Beirut, 20 July 2006. Israeli attacks on the Lebanese infrastructure caused US $2 billion worth of damage, according to a spokesman for the Lebanese Ministry of Transportation and Public W
  • [Lebanon] The UAE Red Crescent says its conveys are always clearly marked. [Date picture taken: 07/20/2006]
    The UAE Red Crescent says its convoys are always clearly marked.
  • [Uganda] A Sudanese woman who escaped atrocities committed by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in southern Sudan arrives with her children at Imvepi refugee camp in Arua, northern Uganda, April 2005. Refugees, especially young children, face extraordina
    Sudanese refugees waiting to be repatriated
  • [Sudan] A band of school-children welcome the first convoy of Sudanese refugees at Kaya, on the border between Sudan and Uganda, 20 June 2006. The returnees are taking part in a voluntary repatriation from Rhino camp in Arua, northern Uganda, to Yei in so
    School children welcome the first Sudanese returnees at Kaya, on the Uganda-Sudan border, in June. The refugees were repatriated from Rhino camp in Arua to Yei, by UNHCR.
  • [Chad] Deby: confident of a win. Moundou airport, southern Chad. [Date picture taken: May 2006]
    Election poster for President Deby in May 2006 poll
  • [Chad] Chad, not a great place to grow up. Bongor, western Chad. [Date picture taken: May 2006]
    Malgré la découverte de gisements de pétrole, le Tchad fait toujours partie des pays les plus pauvres de la planète
  • [Chad] Life is tough in Chad. Bongor, western Chad. [Date picture taken: May 2006]
  • [DRC] Elakat site, a former food company in Lubumbashi, where hundreds of war-displaced people try to survive. [Date picture taken: July 2006]
  • [Ghana] A lorry park in Takoradi. [Date picture taken: 12/20/2005]
  • [Lebanon] A French member of the 2,000-strong UNIFIL peacekeeping force in south Lebanon.
  • [Lebanon] An estimated 20,000 displaced people from the south of the country are living in Aley. [Date picture taken: 07/19/2006

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