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  • A picture of a man as he looks inside a shop selling fans.
    At the “electricity market” in Damascus, battery-powered fans are a hot commodity.
  • A private electric generator in Damascus on the streets.
    A private generator in Damascus. Many shops reply on generators to keep the electricity on, but they can be extremely expensive.
  • A wide-angle photo showing children in Damascus playing with water as they seek relief from the heat in a small public park.
    Children in Damascus seek relief from the heat in a small public park.
  • A photo showing a man as he sells cold water for sale in one of the city’s old markets.
    Cold water for sale in one of the city’s old markets.
  • October 2024, everyone in Tassila used to sleep in tents provided both by the Moroccan government and by international NGO’s.
    In the first few months after the earthquake, villagers in Tassila mostly slept in tents provided by the Moroccan government and various NGOs.
  • An aerial view of South Kivu’s Itombwe mountain range.
    An aerial view of South Kivu’s Itombwe mountain range.
  • A close-up of a man mid-yell as he handles a weapon. Behind him are more people kneeling with weapons pointing elsewhere.
  • We see a woman as she prays at Mikenge displacement camp. Her arms are raised up in the air as she speaks, her eyes are closed.
  •  A cattle-herder looks after livestock as a Congolese soldier practises weapon handling.
  • A man stands on a truck loaded with humanitarian aid to be taken to Syria’s quake-hit northwest, at Manbij, Syria on 9 February, 2023.
    A man stands on a truck loaded with humanitarian aid to be taken to Syria’s quake-hit northwest, at Manbij, Syria on 9 February, 2023.
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  • Fifteen-year-old Batoul (left) and Zahraa (right) on the veranda of the home in Laylaki where they have been living since being displaced from their south Lebanon village in October. July 12, 2024.
    Sisters Batoul and Zahraa al-Sayed, 15 and 12, on the veranda of their grandmother’s house in Beirut’s southern suburbs, where they have been staying since their displacement from south Lebanon last October.
  • Sabah Ezzen, 88, relaxes in the alleyway outside of her home in Laylaki. She had been living in Palestine in 1948 and was forced to flee to her home country of Lebanon with her family. 12 July, 2024.
    Sabah Ezzen, 88, relaxes in the alleyway outside of her home in Laylaki, in Beirut’s southern suburbs. She was 12 in 1948, when her family was forced to flee Palestine back to their home country of Lebanon.
  • Residents of the southern Beirut suburb of Hayy Sallom attend a local religious gathering, known as a majlis, to commemorate Ashoura. 15 July, 2024.
    Residents of the southern Beirut suburb of Hayy Sallom attend a prayer session to commemorate Ashura.
  • A wide shot of the Nkamira transit camp in western Rwanda.
    Thousands of refugees have taken shelter at the Nkamira transit camp in western Rwanda since the M23 conflict erupted. The refugees have been arriving with bullet wounds and severe mental health issues.
  • This is a political cartoon titled "Ruto leads the hobbits to dialogue". We see Kenyan President William Ruto as Smeagol/Gollum. Written as dialogue, he says to a smaller figure: "Gen-z must go into the tunnel!" as they stand in front of a tunnel.
  • Pictured are people standing in front of a white wall. At the centre of the wall is a painting of the Venezuelan flag. Beneath is stands a man with his hands behind his back.
    On 30 June, many Venezuelans participated in a rehearsal officially meant to help citizens familiarise themselves with the candidates and electronic voting system. Here, people cast their mock votes in Catia, in western Caracas.
  • A low angle photo showing a line of soldiers from Ugandan troops as they're about to board a flight to Mogadishu.
    Ugandan troops board a flight to Mogadishu as part of the African Union's military intervention in Somalia, aimed at supporting a fragile government.
  • People displaced by gang violence take shelter in the Rex Theater in Port-au-Prince. The scene on the left shows stairs. On the right the first floor are people standing, the second floor shows clothes hanging.
    People displaced by gang violence take shelter in the Rex Theatre in Port-au-Prince, on 26 June. There are nearly 580,000 people displaced by gang violence in Haiti.
  • United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths gestures as he stands near damaged buildings, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, in Aleppo, Syria February 13, 2023.
    United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths gestures as he stands near damaged buildings, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, in Aleppo, Syria, on 13 February 2023.
  • A life vest, food, and water pictured in the place where refugee boats arrive at Samos island, November 2021.
    A life vest, food, and water left behind at the location where boats carrying asylum seekers and migrants arrive to the island of Samos, taken in November 2021.
  • This is a wide shot showing fishermen by the shore near a pier as they prepare to go out at night at the dock where Greek coast guards were illegally sending people back to sea in Lesbos Island.
    Two men prepare to go fishing at the dock on the island of Lesvos where a New York Times video investigation showed masked men loading asylum seekers onto a boat before the Greek Coast Guard pushed them back to Türkiye.
  • Pictured is a classroom from the back. We see the backs of young girls in class, one young girl is at the whiteboard writing something. The teacher stands to the left of the student at the board.
    Hadia, 10, attends a primary school class in the Afghan capital, Kabul, in October 2021. Currently, at least 1.5 million Afghan girls are unable to receive a secondary education due to ongoing Islamic Emirate restrictions.
  • A Sudanese refugee stranded in the forest in Ethiopia’s Amhara region holds up a sign indicating they are on hunger strike. They wear a green floral cloth over their face and sunglasses.
    A Sudanese refugee stranded in the forest in Ethiopia’s Amhara region holds up a sign indicating they are on hunger strike.
  • Pictured are members of a Kenyan police force, standing in line. They are part of a new security mission, stand at the airport after disembarking, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti June 25, 2024.
    Kenyan police stand in line at the international airport in Port-au-Prince on 25 June 2024 after being deployed on a UN-approved mission to rein in Haiti's rampant criminal gangs.
  • Riot police stand in front of a crowd of protestors holding Kenyan flags. Some have their arms raised.
  • The header image for the Inkling's newsletter entry of 12 June, 2024. On the top left you see Inklings written in a serif font with an ink bleed effect and underlined with a burgundy color line. On the bottom right we see a list of the main topic: WFP and the search for value for money
  • A man trapped by fighting in April 2023 walks towards his home in Khartoum. Residents of the devastated capital are experiencing deep hunger as war stretches into a second year.
    A man trapped by fighting in April 2023 walks towards his home in Khartoum. Residents of the devastated capital are experiencing deep hunger as war stretches into a second year.
  • This is a long shot image. At the centre we see a docked bright orange ship. Next to it is a boat with groups of people on it. This image depicts the arrival of the patera at the dock of La Restinga, on October 21, 2023, in El Hierro, Canary Islands (Spain).
    More than 500 migrants and asylum seekers arrive on two boats at the dock on El Hierro, one of the Canary Islands, after an Atlantic crossing, on 21 October 2023.
  • A man walks through the Bulengo displacement camp on the outskirts of Goma. Aid groups and displaced people say the camps are overcrowded and lack basic services.
    A man walks through the Bulengo displacement camp on the outskirts of Goma. Aid groups and displaced people say the camps are overcrowded and lack basic services.
  • This is a wide-angle shot of a room in Nasser Hospital as staff work to get the facility up and running again after it was badly damaged and left nearly abandoned for weeks following an Israeli siege and prolonged raid in mid-February.
    Staff at Nasser Hospital work to get the facility up and running again after it was badly damaged and left nearly abandoned for weeks following an Israeli siege and prolonged raid in mid-February.

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