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  • A mother with her child is waiting her turn to get drinking water at Keroma Kebele where a water truck is distributing to the people in Gewane woreda (district), Afar region, Ethiopia.
  • Cartoon published in 1938 by the Daily Express newspaper in Britain showing refugees from Nazi occupied territories and the unwillingess of any countries to take them.
  • FARC guerrillas training at a camp in Meta, Colombia in November 2015
  • MSF hospital South Sudan
  • Displaced girls sleep in the floor in a rented house in Yola. IDPs share overcrowded houses and are often left to fend for themselves.
  • Edwinge Nana, 19, after vaccination in the village of Koubri. Edwinge’s little brother Charles died of meningitis at age 7.
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    A leaflet the Nigerian government has been distributing in Adamawa State, urging IDPs to return home
  • Boko Haram displacement map
    More than two million people are currently displaced within Nigeria because of Boko Haram.
  • Mamuna was held captive by Boko Haram in Bama for several weeks. She managed to escape and she now lives in the Girl's College Camp in Maiduguri with four of her six children.
  • A leaflet the Nigerian government has been distributing in Adamawa State, urging IDPs to return home.
  • The African meningitis belt
    The African meningitis belt runs across the continent.
  • Aboud Dandachi, a Syrian blogger and refugee, who lives in Istanbul
  • The Bahn refugee camp in Liberia's Nimba County is still home to more than 5,500 Ivorian refugees.
  • Ivorian refugees in Liberia learn skills, such as carpentry, in order to earn a living as they wait to be repatriated following border closures due to Ebola.
  • China is the second-least charitable country in the world, according to the World Giving Index
  • Rising sea levels are increasing eroding the coast of Togo and destroying home and businesses
  • Al-Amin and Fatima in a slum in the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka in October 2015 where they moved when their farmland was lost to river erosion
    Al-Amin and Fatima outside their new home in a slum in Dhaka
  • Unable to fish, and with their businesses destroyed, many people in Togo are now collecting gravel to earn a living, further accelerating coastal erosion
  • Many Togolese families put fetishes outside their homes to protect them, but they are no match for rising seas
  • From left to right, Macky Sall, President of Senegal, Donald Tusk, President of the European Council and Joseph Muscat, Maltese Prime Minister at the Valletta Summit on migration
  • On 04 November a man fixes water pipes while standing in floodwater behind a set of shelters in Nabi Younis IDP camp in Nahrawan, a suburb of Baghdad. Heavy rain in Iraq in late October inundated several areas of the country considered vulnerable to the s
  • On 03 November a worker at a primary school for girls in Baghdad sweeps flood water out of a classroom. Heavy rain in Iraq in late October inundated several areas of the country considered vulnerable to the spread of cholera. Extensive flooding near Baghd
  • On 03 November a worker at a primary school for girls in Baghdad sweeps flood water in the courtyard. Heavy rain in Iraq in late October inundated several areas of the country considered vulnerable to the spread of cholera. Extensive flooding near Baghdad
  • Acehnese fisherman, Karim, who was involved in the rescue of hundreds of Rohingya and Bangladeshi "boat people" in May, serves 'iftar' juice for the breaking of fast during the month of Ramadhan in the temporary refugee camp in Langsa, Aceh.
  • Afghans start their journey to Europe in trucks on this road in Afghanistan's Nimruz Province near the border of Iran in October 2015

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