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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Friday, December 18, 2009

KENYA

POST ELECTION VIOLENCE


Joseph, who lost his parents, two brothers, wife, two children and during Kenya's election violence two years ago, looks out of his window in a room he has been lent in Mombasa, Kenya, on the 18th December, 2009. After his parents and brothers were brutally murdered he fled with his wife and two young daughters - they were separated and he has not seen them since. He was captured and forced to rape a woman with nine other men, and has now discovered he is HIV positive.

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Afghanistan

Jalalabad - Refugees Return to Afghanistan



A young woman listens to a Health Education talk at Woch Tangai Health Centre that is run by the IMC in Jalalabd Afghanistan on the 16th November, 2009. Thousands of refugees have returned from Pakistan in the last year, to settle in camps around Jalalabad but many have been unable to register as refugees upon their return as they do not have the necessary documentation.

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Wednesday, November 04, 2009

KENYA

DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP


Somali women wait behind barbed wire at a supplementary feeding centre run by NGO GTZ with their malnourished children in Ifo Refugee Camp, Dadaab, Kenya on the 4th November, 2009. Dadaab is Africa's biggest refugee camp and is home to over 250, 000 people who have fled ongoing conflict in Somalia.

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Friday, October 02, 2009

AFGHANISTAN

KABUL

Sakidada, 70 years old and from the Hazari Region of Afghanistan, poses for a photograph in his house in Sector 3, Kabul, Afghanistan on the 29th September, 2009. He is taking part in a work for Cash programme that is being run by Care International to build drainages systems, and gives the 800 participants a cash income from which they can buy food.

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