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The view from the Matamoros-Brownsville bridge: the US and a wall on the left, Mexico on the right.
Sister Noel Christine walks through Negombo’s St. Sebastian’s Church in early July. An April bombing killed dozens of worshipers who had gathered for Easter Sunday mass.
Ahsan Mahmood, a refugee from Pakistan, has been living at an Ahmadiyya mosque since being evicted from his rented home in Negombo. More than 1,000 refugees and asylum seekers were displaced in an anti-Muslim backlash following April terrorist attacks.
People pray outside St. Anthony’s Shrine in Colombo, which was one of several churches and hotels attacked in a series of suicide blasts in April.
Survivor Sherihan, who returned last year weighing just 28kg.
Since MSF started working in Sinouni in December, mental health has become one of its biggest activities.
Many villages in Sinjar region stand deserted and overgrown, without any services and often limited security.
“Our country is very rich. We have agriculture, natural resources. And yet you can’t eat or get an education. Every day things get worse.” Yassim Ahmen builds homes for the elite, but doesn't earn enough to provide for his own family.
Waiting for customers in the Barakha market.
Sadiya Seror selling falafel.
A bird's eye view from the top floor of Las Pulgas of children playing in one of Soacha Alta's unpaved streets.
A small crowd of children gather in the dusty streets of Soacha Alta, waiting for Fundación Las Pulgas to open.
Members of this family have been living on their roof after floodwaters rushed into their home.
Rashida Begum, 35, said the rising floodwaters forced her family from their home and onto a small boat: “We’re now living in a risky situation,” she said.
Uprooted from their homes, people take shelter on boats during heavy floods in Kurigram District.
This drone image shows the extent of flooding in northern Bangladesh’s Kurigram District.
Cows stand in a shed while ducks swim past through muddy water. Aid groups say widespread destruction of cropland and livestock could have long-term impacts on food security.
Floodwaters have nearly overtaken this tube well in a submerged village. Aid groups are warning of disease outbreaks caused by contaminated water sources and crowded conditions.
Men transport the remnants of their damaged homes by boat. The river areas of Kurigram District are prone to frequent flooding, but aid groups say the impacts of this year’s monsoon rains have been particularly heavy.
Ratna Begum holds on to a roof while standing in her submerged yard in flooded Kurigram District in northern Bangladesh.
Karungi Shamillah, 27, a Red Cross volunteer in her own community in Majada, Uganda, close to the border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, educating communities about Ebola.
Saif Ahmed
Mariam Hasan

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