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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.
A UNHCR app allows field workers in Lebanon to check refugee entitlements via barcode
Carmen Senovia Tovar, 77, works with a local NGO to serve lunch to elderly people at a public kitchen in Caracas, Venezuela.
The Haven Night Shelter staff helping the homeless in Cape Town, South Africa. The group has worked with city authorities and security forces during the COVID-19 lockdown.
The World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul in 2016.
A UNHCR app allows field workers in Lebanon to check refugee entitlements via barcode.
Patients sit at the health centre during an Ebola vaccination campaign in May 2018 in Wangata, a commune in Mbandaka in Équateur Province. Ebola has resurfaced in Mbandaka.
With oxygen in short supply, relatives of hospitalised patients have had to wait in line, sometimes overnight, to fill oxygen cylinders at a private plant in Iquitos, Peru.
Staff from the hospital in Santa Clotilde carry an emergency patient who arrived by boat from a Kichwa community on the Napo River.
Staff from the hospital in Santa Clotilde carry an emergency patient who arrived by boat from a Kichwa community on the Napo River.
Patients in the Loreto Regional Hospital overflowed from wards into the corridors during the peak of COVID-19 cases in Iquitos, Peru.
A health technician takes a blood sample from a resident of the Kichwa community of San Lorenzo, located on the Napo River. Rapid tests are scarce.

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