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OCHA on the ground at an IDP camp in Bama, Borno State, Nigeria OCHA/Yasmina Guerda

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: Gul Serah, 25, walked on an unexploded rocket when she stepped out of her house in Laghman Province.

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Afghanistan: Aid worker safeguards her community in contaminated land

Maman Issofou was displaced when his home swept away by devastating floods in Niger's Maradi Region.

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Bearing the floods: Issofou’s journey of resilience

A displaced woman prepares millet in a school’s courtyard where she and her family have taken shelter. Burkina Faso.

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Burkina Faso: What price dignity?

Mamadou, his wife and their daughter at the Boudouri site for displaced people, in Diffa, Niger

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Niger: Helping people to help themselves

Olha and her children are kept warm in a shelter in a village in the Chernihiv Region, north Ukraine, as part of a winter campaign by aid workers.

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Ukraine: Winter aid brings warmth to war-affected people

A family works in a wheat field on June 21st 2023, near the center of Gyan district, in the south-eastern Paktika province, Afghanistan.

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Afghanistan: An aid worker's resolve to choose courage over fear

A pregnant woman from the community, returns alone by canoe from the other side of the Ubangi River, Bangui, to fetch food for her family. Photo: OCHA

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Bangui: Flooded families seek drier land due to climate crisis

Two girls reading a book using a flashlight.

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Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund: 10 Years on the front lines

Centre Village displacement site in Tana River County, the Coastal Region of Kenya, hosts people who fled their homes due to floods

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After the floods: Stories of renewal and resilience in Kenya

Displacement camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

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Haiti: Delivering assistance is more important than ever

A wide view of displaced families living in a school in Minova, DRC

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DRC: “I fear cholera will consume us.”

An Afghan woman gazing into the camera, Afghanistan

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Afghanistan: Nabila’s journey to journalism