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Uprooted from their homes, people take shelter on boats during heavy floods in Kurigram District.
This drone image shows the extent of flooding in northern Bangladesh’s Kurigram District.
Cows stand in a shed while ducks swim past through muddy water. Aid groups say widespread destruction of cropland and livestock could have long-term impacts on food security.
Floodwaters have nearly overtaken this tube well in a submerged village. Aid groups are warning of disease outbreaks caused by contaminated water sources and crowded conditions.
Men transport the remnants of their damaged homes by boat. The river areas of Kurigram District are prone to frequent flooding, but aid groups say the impacts of this year’s monsoon rains have been particularly heavy.
Ratna Begum holds on to a roof while standing in her submerged yard in flooded Kurigram District in northern Bangladesh.
Karungi Shamillah, 27, a Red Cross volunteer in her own community in Majada, Uganda, close to the border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, educating communities about Ebola.
Saif Ahmed
Mariam Hasan
A health worker takes temperatures in Mangina.
Juan, a Venezuelan in Cusco, who says he doesn’t exist in Peru after entering the country illegally – ‘It doesn’t matter if you don’t have a visa or a passport, everything has a price.’
WFP disaster risk reduction teams are stabilising slopes that slipped during heavy rains in Cox’s Bazar.
A field of wheat burns near the town of Sinjar.

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