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  • 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.
  • Volunteers from a community kitchen prepare meals for people affected by conflict and extreme hunger, in Omdurman, on 22 June, 2024.
    Volunteers from a community kitchen prepare meals for people affected by conflict and extreme hunger, in Omdurman, on 22 June, 2024.
  • 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.
  • Pictured are a group of workers bending down as they exhume bodies from a mass grave that was discovered at Nasser Hospital in April following an Israeli raid in February that left the facility badly damaged.
    Workers exhume bodies from a mass grave that was discovered at Nasser Hospital in April following an Israeli raid in February that left the facility badly damaged.
  • This is a view of the outside of the dialysis department of Nasser Medical Complex. Large parts of it are black as it has been charred by Israeli strikes.
    One of the buildings at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, left gutted and charred by Israeli strikes on the medical complex.
  • An aerial view of a man as he runs in front of the cityscape of Mekele, Tigray Region, Ethiopia on 25 June 2023.
    A man runs in front of the cityscape of Mekele, Tigray Region, Ethiopia on 25 June 2023.
  • Juba, South Sudan’s capital city, seen from a bird's-eye-view. We see a highway cutting through two parts of the city.
    Juba, South Sudan’s capital city, seen from the sky. The country is one of the most dangerous places in the world for humanitarians, yet aid organisations often misunderstand the risks faced by their local staff.
  • Two men are pictured among a crowd of BJP's party supporters celebrate Modi's victory in Lok Sabha elections 2024 in Varanasi. The man on the left has his arms raised and is pictured shouting. On the right, a man raises his right arm.
    BJP party supporters celebrate victory in parliamentary elections in Varanasi, on 4 June 2024.
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi raises his arms, his hands showing peace signs, as he greet supporters after his recent election win. Confetti is all around. Behind him is BJP National President JP Nadda.
    Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP party chief JP Nadda greet supporters at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi as they celebrate vote count leads on 4 June 2024.
  • Doros Polykarpou is pictured gesturing towards the window panes of the KISA office in Nicosia — shattered by an explosive device on January 5.
    Doros Polykarpou, founder of the refugee and asylum seeker support organisation KISA, in front of the shattered window of the group's office in Nicosia, Cyprus, which was attacked with explosives on 5 January.
  • A man stands behind a cardboard sign in protest of his poor living conditions in Cyprus. The sign reads: There are human rights violations in southern Cyprus "Stop this".
    Asylum seeker Ferit, who has been homeless since arriving to Cyprus in 2022, holding a sign in the capital Nicosia protesting the poor living conditions faced by asylum seekers and refugees on the island.
  • We see a large grouo of people walking up a path, behind them a jungle. They their migration journey leaving the last camp in Acandi, Colombia.
    Hundreds of migrants leave a camp in Acandí, Colombia, heading towards the Darién Gap, in April 2024. Last year, migrants from over 100 countries took the dangerous jungle trek into Panama.
  • This photo shows large groups of people gathering to receive the humanitarian aid supplies that are being airdropped by plane through parachutes into the city of Khan Yunis. You can see two parachutes over the crowd.
    Aid airdrops and other performative humanitarian actions in Gaza have served to focus attention on false solutions to the suffering caused by Israel's military campaign while distracting from calls to end the violence and address its underlying causes.
  • The header image for the Inkling's newsletter entry of 29 May, 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: Who’s asking for Global South views on AI? 
  • This photo shows a car that has been destroyed after a shelling.
    El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, is the latest epicentre of the year-long war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Over 100 people have been killed and nearly 1,000 injured in recent fighting.
  • In this picture is taken outdoors, we see rows of metal bowls on the floor being filled with food. There are people sitting around the bowls.
    Local volunteers from the Shaqra Emergency Response Room prepare food for displaced people camped outside of El Fasher. Half a million people have been displaced from the North Darfur state capital in recent months.
  • This is a composite image. At the centre we see a black and white portrait of Mohamed Elsanousi, executive director of the Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers. He is pictured smiling. His portrait is placed inside a yellow box. The background is a yellowish beige and some halftone pattern circles surround the portrait.

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