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Thiona Joseph sits with her daughters on her aunt’s stoop on Cork Street. While disagrees with Dominicans opting to abandon the island at such a critical moment, Thiona has chosen instead to stay and help rebuild the island -
The Sandy sisters wait on the dock ferry before sailing to St Lucia. An outbreak of diarrhea is spreading quickly through their village, prompting their flight from the island -
Though mostly calm, tensions occasionally flare up as the sun beats down on travelers trying to get on the sole ferry to St Lucia -
A mother grows frustrated when authorities at the military manned port refuse her and her children entry -
At least 15,000 people are confirmed to have left the island after Maria. Either for a short period or an indeterminate return date. Those who stay worry that the people who are leaving might never come back -
A devastated coconut plantation devastated by Hurricane Maria. Agriculture represents Dominica’s second industry -
A laid off hotel worker looks out onto the debris strewn beach of Mero. Before Maria, tourism was Dominica’s main source of income -
Volunteers use fire hoses to clear mud from the streets of Roseau -
Fell trees and torn roof paneling litter the ravines of a village in Dominica -
Kenny Charles stands guard of Salybia primary school, now serving as a displaced people’s shelter in the Kalinoga Territory -
Vendors resume the sale of local staple foods. The devastation was such that not even the cassava roots survived Maria’s path -
A mother brushes her daughter’s hair as the pre-storm routine slowly resumes. Classes, however, remain halted -
Mervin Henderson stands in a neighbour’s house destroyed by the Pointe Michel landslide -
The landslide triggered by Maria caused a landslide that flowed down Pointe Michel’s ravine, taking houses and trees into the sea -
Newly arrived refugee women hold their young children in Nguenyyiel Camp. Amongst the over 400,000 South Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia, 78% are women and children. -
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Goats can be picky eaters. Getting the right kind of grass often entails long journeys -
Uvira came under attack from speedboats -
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Rebecca Ekale, who lost 16 goats to drought, doubts oil will make her life easier -
UNHCR uses biometrics such as iris scans to register refugees -
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Without water points like this, many more animals would die -
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In Kenya's Turkana County alone, drought has killed an estimated half million head of livestock -
A general map of the Caribbean -
Local women cast their vote in one of Tuz Khurmatu's largest polling stations -
A map by humanitarian agencies in Bangladesh shows the outlines of a planned new camp for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar. The dotted line shows the camp’s borders; areas marked red show the locations of some of the new arrivals after 25 August. -
Kurdish fighters gather outside a Tuz Khurmatu polling station after a peshmerga was shot dead -
A pro-referendum even in Erbil, days before the vote