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A man walks on a flood bank on Sagar Island, West Bengal, in 2019, shortly after a nearby village had finished rebuilding from a storm a decade earlier. In May 2020, Cyclone Amphan breached the flood bank, destroying parts of the village again.
Peruvian heath ministry officials conducting a COVID-19 test at central morgue in Lima, Peru, in March.
Demonstrators at a Black Lives Matter demonstration on 9 June in Geneva.
Kalungu, a town in eastern Congo where thousands of displaced people are living, is one location where complicit business owners are known to have taken part in fraudulent aid schemes on several occasions in 2018.
A market day in Minova, where business owners complicit in the fraud lived and made profits from the scam that were far higher than they would normally earn.
Miridi Basiraye, the chief of IDPs in Kalungu, said the fraud scheme has made it difficult for newly displaced people to receive aid.
Children walk to school in the morning in Cameroon.
A camp for internally displaced people in the eastern town of Minova, where business owners who were involved in the scam lived, according to a Mercy Corps investigation.
Miridi Basiraye, the chief of IDPs in Kalungu, said the fraud scheme has made it difficult for newly displaced people to receive aid.
Kalungu, a town in eastern Congo where thousands of displaced people are living, is one location where complicit business owners are known to have taken part in fraudulent aid schemes on several occasions in 2018.
A family of internally displaced people build a new shelter at a camp in Minova. Thousands of people have fled to the town and surrounding ones in recent years due to clashes between armed groups.
A market day in Minova, where business owners complicit in the fraud lived and made profits from the scam that were far higher than they would normally earn.
Families of Sri Lanka’s missing thousands fear the government is aiming to curb investigations into unsolved civil war disappearances.
Families hold photographs of missing loved ones during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka’s largest city, in February 2020.
Carmen Senovia Tovar, 77, works with a local NGO to serve lunch to elderly people at a public kitchen in Caracas.

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