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A Burundian refugee suspected of having cholera receives IV rehydration in the health clinic at Lake Tanganyika Stadium in Kigoma, Tanzania.
Coast Trust is the first southern NGO to be certified by the Humanitarian Quality Assurance Initiative (HQAI), an independent auditing and advisory service for relief aid agencies, based in Geneva. COAST gained its certificate in January 2018.
Women in Sinjar's mountain camp say life is tough all year round.
Sinjar's old town lies in ruins
View of the UN Security Council vote in favour of the draft resolution on Syria.
A boy receives polio vaccination drops in a small neighbourhood outside Spin Boldak in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province. Building polio immunity requires repeated rounds of vaccination.
An Afghan health worker holds a bag of oral polio vaccines. Building polio immunity requires repeated rounds of vaccination, which makes consistent access to children essential.
Health worker Asadullah, 22, uses a megaphone to announce a vaccination campaign in a neighbourhood in Kandahar. He says parents sometimes refuse to vaccinate their children: “They had heard gossip that the vaccine is bad," he says.
A satellite image taken on 27 February 2018 village shows extensive new construction south of Hla Poe Kaung village in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State.
According to an analysis of satellite imagery, new construction near Hla Poe Kaung includes at least 110 new buildings and two possible helicopter landing pads. Rights groups say Myanmar has built up excessive security infrastructure in northern Rakhine.
Iraq says it will take $88b to rebuild Iraq, include Mosul's destroyed Old City
Samia Naz has started delivering babies at an NGO-run clinic, even though she has not been formally trained to do so.
Mehreen Bibi, 24, sits down at a free NGO-run health clinic near her home in Bhagwal in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Pregnant and worried, Bibi hopes to see a doctor about her pregnancy, but she can’t afford to travel to a government-run clinic.
Labourers work at a new construction site near Hla Poe Kaung village in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State in late January 2018.
A view of a Rohingya refugee settlement in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Aid groups estimate that more than 900,000 Rohingya refugees now live in the area.
Rohingya refugees have etched their fragile homes into slippery hillsides or along floodplains. Aid groups fear a cyclone or monsoon rains could be a disaster in Bangladesh’s packed refugee camps.
Asylum seekers protest Israel's deportation plan outside the Rwandan embassy
Dil Mohammed, 70, fled his village in Rakhine State in January, just before repatriations were first scheduled to begin. Between 14 and 20 January 2018, an estimated 506 new refugees arrived in Bangladesh, according to the UN’s refugee agency.
A young girl rests on a beam in her house in Sindhupalchok, which is being rebuilt after the 2015 earthquake
A Nepal Police officer looks out from an anti-trafficking check post in Sundhupalchok
Guransh Gurung of the NGO Shakti Samuha, which fights human trafficking, in the office in Chautara
Noor Mohammed was part of a wave of Rohingya refugees who fled to Bangladesh in 1991. He returned to Myanmar in the 1990s, but now he says he won't go back again.
Gum Sha Awng, who works with the Metta Development Foundation, worries that the conflict in northern Myanmar has been overshadowed.

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