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  • Map showing Tigris and Euphrates from Turkey through Iraq, including Baghdad and Basra, through to the Persian Gulf.
  • Stagnant pools of water in Basra's al-Abbas district
    Stagnant pools of water in Basra's al-Abbas district.
  • Graffiti at a canal in Basra's Old City reads: "Don't throw rubbish on the bridge or in the river"
    Graffiti at a canal in Basra's Old City reads: "Don't throw rubbish on the bridge or in the river"
  • Ebola graph by age for Congo
  • A nurse disinfects protective equipment.
  • A photo of a man with protective gear in an Ebola centre
    Nurse Bonheur Ndoko practises putting on and taking off PPE.
  • Jacob Lape’s eight children and 12 grandchildren all sleep in the same three-bedroom house in Mongoumba.
  • Fabiola Tembukade returned to Mongoumba from Bétou in April 2018.
  • A family is reunited as the convoy arrives in Bangui. Of the 364 people repatriated on the convoy, 79 returned to capital.
  • Returnees prepare to sleep in Mongoumba transit centre – their first night in CAR after years in exile.
  • At Mongoumba transit centre, UNHCR staff verify the documents of Halima Adam, a 30-year-old mother of five.
  • 13-year-old Zeinaba Daha is heading back to CAR’s capital, Bangui, with her mother and five siblings.
  • At a transit center in Mongoumba, returnees are offered health checks, a yellow fever vaccination, food to last three months, and a cash distribution worth $76 per child, $152 per adult, and $84 per family.
  • Saturnin Mbenga (left) and his family, sing, laugh and greet people as they travel from Bétou to Mongoumba, a town in southwestern CAR close to the Congo-Brazzaville border.
  • After six years living in a refugee camp in Congo-Brazzaville, 32-year-old Mermoz Mongo (wearing a green vest) is waiting to be transported back to his village in CAR.
  • Photo of a mother holding a child in Central African Republic
  • Photo of man standing above refugee camp in Bangladesh.
    A man looks out over Bangladesh’s crowded refugee camps, which are home to nearly one million people.
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  • Michelle Caracas hiking up La Z.
  • Photo of Kadia camp in Iraqi Kurdistan.
    Kadia Camp in Iraqi Kurdistan, home to an estimated 15,000 Yazidis, is where many survivors are taken when they return to Iraq.
  • Photo of a husband and wife smiling and laughing near Sinjar, Iraq
    Survivor Bevereen and her Husband Faisal at home in a Sinjar village.
  • Photo of a Yazidi woman in Sinjar grieving by a mass grave
    A young Yazidi woman grieves by a mass grave in Sinjar.
  • Photo of a building that has fallen into the river due to erosion in Bangladesh
    Erosion along the Padma river severely damaged this 50-bed health complex in Naria.
  • Photo of woman in Bangladesh in the door of her home
    Since losing her land, Rita Begum has lived in a shed made from tarpaulin and pieces of her old home.
  • Year Baksh Laskar points to where a saw mill he owned used to stand. River erosion destroyed much of the businessman’s property.
  • A woman stands on the bank of a river in Bangladesh reading a small piece of paper
    Aklima Begum, 57, reads a copy of her national ID card on the riverbank in Kedarpur village. Erosion wiped away her home and much of her possessions.
  • Photo of a woman in Bangladesh walking up a mountain of sand bags from the river
    Local authorities have placed sandbags to reinforce riverbanks near Kedarpur village. Some river management experts say Bangladeshi authorities need to better prepare for erosion, rather than reacting to disasters as they happen.
  • Photo of an empty market in Syria's al-Hol camp.
    The main market at the entrance to al-Hol camp was shuttered after a stabbing attack against a camp guard, 3 July 2019.
  • Photo of Romida Begum looking into the camera
    Romida Begum has grown frustrated after a year in office as an elected camp leader. She said she has faced resistance and threats from majhis and others opposed to her leadership.
  • Photo of a man walking in a Rohingya camp with an umbrella in Bangladesh
    A man walks through Shalbagan, part of Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps now home to nearly one million people.

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