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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

AFGHANISTAN - HELMAND

US Marines in Helmand


A  US Marine looks out of the back of a transport helicopter onto another helicopter as they fly over Helmand Province, Afghanistan on the 29th March, 2010.

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Saturday, April 03, 2010

AFGHANISTAN - HELMAND

US Marines and Afghan Civilians


A US marine takes the blood pressure of an Afghan woman that has been brought to the Marines health post by her husband at the Forward Operating Base in Mian Poshteh, Helmand, Afghanistan on the 27th March, 2010. Mian Poshteh was an extremely hostile region of Helmand province , being a major  trading centre for opium and weapons that supplied the Taliban. 2/2 of the US Marines arrived in the area in October 2009 and have succeded in bringing a degree of security and economic stability to the region despite extreme opposition by insurgent forces.

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Sunday, March 21, 2010

AFGHANISTAN - KANDAHAR

Malnutrition in Kandahar


A woman waits with her severely malnourished baby in a therapeutic feeding centre in Kandahar, Afghanistan on the 17th March, 2010. The US coalition leader in Afghanistan General McCrystal has announced a major offensive in Kandahar over the next few months to rid it of Taliban insurgents. It remains the Taliban heartland, despite having over 30000 foreign troops stationed there. Few humintarian organisations can operate safely due to the insurgency, and life for the majority of Afghans in the city remains dire. 

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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

CHAD


A woman holds her young baby in a therapeutic feeding centre, supported by UNICEF in Goz BaEda, Eastern Chad, Chad on the 2nd March, 2010. Mia Farrow, a UNICEF Ambassador, is on a week long visit to Chad to highlight the start of a nationwide polio vaccination campaign that it being launched at the end of this week. Chad had 65 cases of polio diagnosed last year amongst children and there is fear that it could spread.

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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

AFGHANISTAN

Arghandab - On patrol with the 82nd Airborne Division of the US Army



Staff Sgt Donny Kuehner from 2-508 of the  82nd Airborne Division of the US Army has tea with Haji Jhapor, a local businessmen, while on foot patrol in Sakari Bagh, Arghandab, Afghanistan on the 2nd February, 2010. The US government has sharply increased the number of civilian workers in Southern Afghanistan to try to bolster local government and provide economic projects to undermine support for the Taliban insurgency.

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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

AFGHANISTAN

Arghandab - Building Local government




An Afghan Government Soldier sits guard outside of the office of the District Governor in Arghandab,  Kandahar Province, Afghanistan on the 31st January, 2010. 

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