Photo Library

Journalist or researcher? Learn about using our images.

Displaying 40897 - 40928 of 43978
  • Ganda Farayi, a forklift operator, had to choose which of his two children will stay on in their current schools – a decision forced by a cut in wages as his employer, a freight haulage company, downsizes.
  • A photograph shows Abdul Qadir Sheikh, who soldiers suspected of being a militant when he was shot and killed in 2000.
    A photograph shows Abdul Qadir Sheikh, who soldiers suspected of being a militant when he was shot and killed in 2000.
  • Arifa Jan keeps newspaper clippings of her husband’s death, as well as a few belongings.
    Arifa Jan keeps newspaper clippings of her husband’s death, as well as a few belongings.
  • Psychiatrist Dr. Saleem Yousuf speaks at Srinagar’s Shri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital.
    Psychiatrist Dr. Saleem Yousuf speaks at Srinagar’s Shri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital.
  • Arifa Jan suffers frequent panic attacks nearly two decades after her husband was killed. She has been diagnosed with PTSD.
    Arifa Jan suffers frequent panic attacks nearly two decades after her husband was killed. She has been diagnosed with PTSD.
  • A complete sandy and dry mountain landscape
  • A map of Burkina Faso and part of the Sahel showing conflict related fatalities and the towns of Barsalogho, Kaya, Pissila, Kongoussi, and Fada N'gourma.
  • A boy displaced from his home in a village in eastern Burkina Faso eats a piece of food in the town of Fada.
    A boy displaced from his home in a village in eastern Burkina Faso eats a piece of food in the town of Fada.
  • Yanga Amadou and his family fled from their village at the beginning of December after three of his brothers were murdered in his house by unknown men.
    Yanga Amadou and his family fled from their village at the beginning of December after three of his brothers were murdered in his house by unknown men.
  • A boy lies on the ground outside a shelter erected by UNHCR in the Pissila displacement site in the center-north of Burkina Faso.
    A boy lies on the ground outside a shelter erected by UNHCR in the Pissila displacement site in the center-north of Burkina Faso.
  • maize-production-in-zimbabwe
  • Zimbabwe banned the use of the US dollar in June with the launch of a new local currency - but that is depreciating and the country is unofficially "redollarising".
    Zimbabwe banned the use of the US dollar in June with the launch of a new local currency - but that is depreciating and the country is unofficially "redollarising".
  • Junior doctors have been on strike for three months demanding better pay and conditions - a walk out that has virtually closed public hospitals.
    Junior doctors have been on strike for three months demanding better pay and conditions - a walk out that has virtually closed public hospitals.
  • Drought has cut the supply of hydro-power and old coal-fired power plants need expensive maintenance - the result is the lights go out for 18-hours a day.
    Drought has cut the supply of hydro-power and old coal-fired power plants need expensive maintenance - the result is the lights go out for 18-hours a day.
  • Last year's drought was one of the worst on record - shriveling maize in farmers' fields.
    Last year's drought was one of the worst on record - shrivelling maize in farmers' fields.
  • tnh-syria-aid-un-ngo-sdonors-conflict-migration-aid-policy-thumbnail
    Children shelter from the sun at northeastern Syria's al-Hol camp in May. The camp is now home to nearly 69,000 people.
  • tnh-rohingya-cash-world-vision-livelihoods-education-refugees-wfp-thumbnail
    Rohingya men help to transport material and carry out manual labour on infrastructure projects in exchange for daily stipends.
  • Rohingya men help to transport material and carry out manual labour on infrastructure projects in exchange for daily stipends.
    Rohingya men help to transport material and carry out manual labour on infrastructure projects in exchange for daily stipends.
  • A Rohingya man helps to dig a drainage system in Bangladesh’s Kutupalong refugee camp.
    A Rohingya man helps to dig a drainage system in Bangladesh’s Kutupalong refugee camp.
  • A Rohingya man helps to dig a drainage system in Bangladesh’s Kutupalong refugee camp.
    A Rohingya man helps to dig a drainage system in Bangladesh’s Kutupalong refugee camp.
  • A church choir practises ahead of a Sunday service in the city of Dondo, an hour’s drive from Beira. The small church with a congregation of 170 was “completely destroyed” by Idai.
  •  permanent resettlement villages after the cyclone Idai in Mozambique.
  • Planks of wood tied together with bits of frayed rope are all that hold up Joaquim Santiago Chapo’s mudbrick house in Guara Guara, Mozambique.
  • Guara Guara secondary school in Mozambique
  • Locals in Mozambique take the lead
  • A neighbourhood in ruins
  • mozambique-cyclone-idai-kenneth-reconstruction-aid_1
  • A woman from Dondo, in central Mozambique, lives alone in a house destroyed by Cyclone Idai almost nine months ago.
    A woman from Dondo, in central Mozambique, lives alone in a house destroyed by Cyclone Idai almost nine months ago.

Become a member of The New Humanitarian

Support our journalism and become more involved in our community. Help us deliver informative, accessible, independent journalism that you can trust and provides accountability to the millions of people affected by crises worldwide.

Join