Kitgum district, November 2 2009
Children playing near the camp for displaced people in Madi Opei.

Rutshuru, North Kivu Province – September 2009
Françoise Kavira and her mother in the hospital of Rutshuru. Françoise is recovering from severe burn wounds after bandits set fire to her house.
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Brussels – November18, 2009
A kosovar family eats lunch at the soup kitchen organised by CIRÉ and Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen at the Saint-Roch church in Brussels.
At this moment, more than 1,000 asylum seekers have nowhere to go and survive in the streets, with winter rapidly approaching.

El Geneina, West Darfur – November 2004
A little girl is running though the streets of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state in Sudan.

Kassala, Sudan – 1985
A biblical looking scene, a mother with her children in search of food and shelter in the camp of Wad Sherifad, near the town of Kassala, which contained over 70.000 refugees at the time. In total, some 600,000 Ethiopians fleeing drought, famine and fighting in their country had found refuge in Sudan.

Mweso, North Kivu – October 20, 2009
A woman carries a load of firewood with her child balanced on top as she walks along a dirt road in the village of Mweso in North Kivu Province.

Nyanzale, North Kivu – September 15, 2009
In Kikuku IDP camp near Nyanzale. Three days before this photo, the camp had been scene of a 4-hour gun battle at night. All the inhabitants of the camp fled down into the valley and, when they returned the next day, many found the few possessions they had brought with them to the camp had been looted.

Koysha Shewkare – July 2008
Koysha Shewkare, in the area of Wolayita (SNNP region), Kindo Didaye district.