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  • An extended family and neighbourhood friends of 21 people share one tent at the Tundikhel IDP camp in the Nepali capital Khatmandu
  • Workers load Red Cross relief supplies arriving at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu as part of the response to the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit on 25 April 2015.
    Workers load Red Cross relief supplies at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu
  • Workers load Red Cross relief supplies arriving at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu as part of the response to the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit on 25 April 2015.
  • Spanish rescue specialist firefighters arrive in Kathmandu, Nepal to assist in relief efforts after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit the country on 25 April 2015.
    Spanish rescue specialist firefighters arrive in Kathmandu to assist in relief efforts
  • Poor sanitation is becoming a concern for many families living in temporary camps set up to house Nepalis after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit the country on 25 April 2015.
  • A young father looks with concern at his wife, a new mother with her two-month-old child. They live with 20 other person in the same tented camp. Thousands of Nepalis feel safer sleeping in the open after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit the country on 25 A
  • A dilapidated house in the Nepali capital Kathmandu. It has become a common scene in many parts of the city after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit the country on 25 April - the worst in 80 years.
  • Nearly two million Nepali migrants work abroad, mostly in India and the Gulf states. The remittances they send home account for 29 percent of Nepal's GDP, according to the World Bank.
  • The in-flight tracker on Qatar Airways flight 652 shows the plane circling for two hours waiting to land due to congestion at Tribhuvan International Airport in the wake of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal on 25 April 2015.
    In-flight tracker shows plane circling for two hours waiting to land due to airport congestion
  • An Afghan child at a trauma hospital run by the Italian NGO Emergency
    A child is carried by a nurse at the Kabul hospital
  • Six year-old Gulalay had both her legs blown off when she stepped on an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan
    Gulalay will undergo surgery in the coming weeks
  • Gulalay, a six year old Afghan child, had both her legs blown off when she stepped on an improvised explosive device
    Gulalay, a six year old Afghan child, had both her legs blown off when she stepped on an improvised explosive device
  • A mass of tented camps at the Tundhikhel area, in the centre of the Nepali capital Kathmandu, is home to the largest number of displaced families after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck on 25 April 2015. Local NGOs estimate more than 40,000 families live
    Makeshift camps have been springing up all over Kathmandu after Saturday's earthquake
  • Concerns around food shortages are growing in Nepal, as food prices rise, in the wake of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake on 25 April 2015, that drove thousands of people to sleep in the open in fear of more tremors.
  • UNICEF provides water purifiers and buckets and raises awareness about water and sanitation after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Nepal on 25 April 2015 causes thousands of people to lose their homes or sleep out in the open in fear of more tremors.
    UNICEF is one of several agencies focussing its early efforts on the camps
  • Aid agencies try to provide safe drinking water in tented areas in and around the capital Kathmandu housing people who have lost their homes or are afraid sleep indoors after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal on 25 April 2015.
  • Maurice Ouendeno (on the right) stands outside the memorial sanctuary they built for his father in lieu of having a real burial plot. Guineans, like Maurice, waited more than a year to bury loved ones who had died from Ebola due to the clash between gover
  • Drummers and dancers often come dressed in costume or masks as part of traditonal funeral rites in Guinea. Tamba Lamine Ouendeno was buried in April 2015, more than a year after his death from Ebola due to the clash between government restrictions on publ
  • Some Guineans waited a year to bury their Ebola dead because of local customs and government restrictions on public gatherings. As part of traditional rituals, friends and family impersonate the career or characteristics of someone who died. In this case,
  • A Red Cross worker tends to an injured Nepali man after an earthquake on Saturday
  • Rescue workers clear debris from collapsed monuments in search of survivors in Basantapur in Central Kathmandu on 27 April 2015 Nepal.
    Rescue workers clear debris from collapsed monuments in search of survivors in Basantapur
  • A man walks on top of debris from collapsed monuments in Basantapur in Central Kathmandu on 27 April 2015 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Nepal was struck by a powerful earthquake on 25 April
    Un homme marche sur les décombres des monuments de la place du Darbar, au centre de Katmandou.
  • Nepal
    Un travailleur humanitaire soigne une Népalaise blessée au lendemain du séisme qui a dévasté Katmandou
  • Zimbabweans fleeing xenophobic attacks in South Africa arrive at the border town of Beitbridge in government-provided transport
  • Zimbabweans fleeing xenophobic attacks in South Africa arrive at the border town of Beitbridge in government-provided transport
  • The bodies of victims of the earthquake that hit Nepal on 25 April, 2015 are cremated at the main cremation site in Bhaktapur on 26 April.
    The bodies of victims of the earthquake are cremated in Bhaktapur
  • Men run past a collapsed building in Basantapur in central Kathmandu during an aftershock on 25 April 2015. Nepal was struck by a 7.8 earthquake that destroyed historic buildings and crucial infrastructure.
    Men run past a collapsed building in Basantapur in central Kathmandu during an aftershock
  • A Red Cross worker helps an injured Nepalese man after an earthquake hit the capital Kathmandu
  • An image shared by Oxfam showing a house destroyed in Yemen
    Airstrikes began last March and have devastated the country's infrastructure
  • IRIN reporter Kristy Siegfried
  • Students learn inside a school built by the local community with support from the IRC’s Tuungane program, with funding from USAID. In the absence of state support, communities in North Kivu and remote areas of eastern Congo are taking it upon themselves
  • Parents and teachers in front of a school built by local communities with support from the IRC’s Tuungane program funded by UK Aid in North Kivu, eastern Congo

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