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  • Children gather near a rice field. The seasonal wetlands, known as haor, are submerged for much of the year. Rice is harvested once a year as the monsoon season begins.
  • Shites Das, a farmer in Daiyya village in northeast Bangladesh, says many of his neighbours have left their farms, unable to make ends meet.
  • A man walks through a rice paddy field in northeast Bangladesh. The main boro paddy rice is harvested only once a year. Locals say there are few job alternatives.
  • Banunu refugees from Yumbi gather in front of Makotimpoko church in Congo-Brazzaville where they have sought refuge.
  • Some 20,000-30,000 displaced people now live in makeshift shelters like these in the village of Gotiti.
  • Bekele Worasa, 45, is a coffee farmer and IDP committee leader. Since December, he has lived in a shelter around the Mekane Yesus Church in Gotiti, together with his wife and 11 children.
  • Tegeno Tiba, 86, spent his whole life in West Guji, until nine months ago when he was displaced to Chelelektu in Gedeo. He now lives in an orphanage and survives on food aid. He has not returned home since.
  • Berhanu Seid, 36, is from West Guji, where he lived with his family of eight. Now displaced in the town of Chelelektu, Gedeo, he stays with extended family and receives food aid from World Vision International.
  • A large group of people standing for a portrait in front of a large, makeshift church against a dramatic sky
    Leaders of the IDP committee in Gedeo say several thousand people live in a makeshift shelter near the Mekane Yesus Church in Gotiti village.
  • Meret Sisay, 18, was forced to flee her home in West Guji twice last year. Now in the village of Gotiti, she lives in a makeshift shelter like thousands of other Gedeos.
  • A South Sudanese woman walks back to her home in the Bidi Bidi refugee settlement in northwestern Uganda.
  • Members of the Civillan Joint Task Force, a volunteer group helping in the counter-insurgency efforts against Boko Haram, wave on a driver at a road checkpoint in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri in June 2016.
  • A man stands talking to a group of boys and girls at a school
    A high school principal goes through safety guidelines at a morning assembly session in Maiduguri. He says five teachers have left the school in fear of Boko Haram.
  • Children in a displaced person camp around a cooking fire
    The Boko Haram insurgency has left thousands of children as orphans. Many of them end up in makeshift IDP camps where there is no government assistance.
  • Rose, a 25-year-old young woman, takes care of her 28-day-old orphaned nephew Ibrahim and Moses.
  • Rebecca Sharibu is still waiting for her daughter after she was abducted in February 2014 from her high school in the northeastern Nigerian town of Dapchi.
  • More than 1,000 schools have been severely damaged or destroyed in northeastern Nigeria.
  • Map showing Venezuelan migration numbers as of February 2019
  • Map showing numbers of migrants from Venezuela in other, mostly South American, countries
  • Farid Rahimi prepares to fill jerrycans with water. His family has access to clean drinking water twice a week for only an hour. Rahimi fills up every available bucket and jerrycan to make sure the water lasts through the rest of the week.

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