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  • Bulama Buba Kadai feeds his remaining two cows. The rest of his herd, which included more than 100 head of cattle, was destroyed by Boko Haram.
  • Shukrullah was injured by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan's Sangin District where schools have been closed for a year due to fighting. He was recovering in December 205 at the Emergency Hospital in the Helmand provincial capital, Lashkar Gah.
    Shukrullah was injured by a roadside bomb in Helmand's Sangin District where schools have been closed for a year
  • Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne welcome Syrian refugees Kevork Jamkossian and his daughter Madeleine who were among 163 Syrians to arrive in Canada on 10 December, the first of 10,000 expected before the end of 20
  • Jacqueline Couture (left) and Deidre Kelly are part of group of individuals that are sponsoring a Syrian family to resettle in Ottawa, Cananda
  • Paris COP21
  • COP21
  • Medieval villages like this one often contain unstable buildings and can be difficult for rescue teams to access
  • Young man lying on ground pointing gun
  • Happy days - the end of the COP21 summit
  • Smoke stacks pollution
  • ICRC president Peter Maurer in Syria, September 2015
    ICRC President Peter Maurer (centre)
  • A shoeshine boy in Kabul
    Many poor families send their children to work like this boy shining shoes in Kabul
  • A display outside the 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in Geneva shows an ambulance that has been attacked. The states party to the Geneva Convention and national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies adopted a resolution to
    À l’extérieur de la Conférence internationale de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge à Genève, une affiche montre une ambulance ayant été attaquée.
  • Flooding in Chennai, India, on 3 December 2015
    At least 280 people have died in floods in Chennai since last month
  • Hanif, 28, spent over a month travelling from Peshawar to the Greece-Macedonia border, only to be turned back because of new restrictions that only allow certain nationalities to cross.
    Hanif was caught trying to travel through Macedonian and beaten by police before being returned to Greece
  • Migrants disembark from buses at Athens' Taekwondo Stadium after being forcibly removed from the Greece-Macedonia border
  • Sharif, 39, a farmer from Algeria, has been returned to Athens after being barred from crossing Greece's border with Macedonia
  • Many Cameroonians who rely on the Logone River for their survival have been forced to flee to dryer lands, as flooding and storms destroy their homes and fishing boats.
  • Past 11pm the day before a deadline for agreement, states party to the Geneva Convention negotiate a draft proposal to strengthen compliance with international humanitarian law at the 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in Gene
  • As water levels continue to rise along the Logone River in northern Cameroon, and as heavy rains flood local communities, many residents will soon be forced to move further inland.
  • Maroua, in Cameroon's Far North, suffered bad floods in June 2015.
  • The slums of Douala are now home to an increasing number of climate change refugees, whose homes have been destroyed by tropical storms and flooding.
  • On Cameroon's Manoka Island, which is threatened by flooding, residents say there is little they can do to protect their homes.
  • Locals in Tebikenikora, a village in the Pacific island nation of Kiribati that is on the frontline of climate change
  • Countless schools have been destroyed by Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria since 2009.
  • Pırıl Erçoban, coordinator of Mülteci-Der, behind a desk
    Pırıl Erçoban, coordinator of Mülteci-Der
  • Syrian children among a group of refugees at Basmane bus station who were returned to Izmir after their boat was turned back
    Syrian children among a group of refugees at Basmane bus station who were returned to Izmir after their boat was turned back
  • Refugees disembark from a bus after having been intercepted by coastguards and returned to Izmir
    Refugees disembark from a bus after having been intercepted by coastguards and returned to Izmir
  • Many shops in Basmane stock lifejackets as a lucrative side-line
    Many shops in Basmane stock lifejackets as a lucrative side-line
  • A Syrian refugee buys lifejackets in the streets of Basmane
    A Syrian refugee buys lifejackets in the streets of Basmane
  • Syrian children among a group of refugees intercepted by Turkish coast guard and sent back to the coast city of Izmir
  • Ranbanda Wijesinghe stands in his field in Pollonaruwa, Sri Lanka, during floods in 2011.
    Ranbanda Wijesinghe stands in his field in Pollonaruwa, Sri Lanka, during floods in 2011

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