The many faces of displacement in Africa

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Arkoum displaced persons camp, eastern Chad. Villagers and displaced people collect water from a well built by the ICRC.

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Arkoum internally displaced persons camp, eastern Chad. A small child being treated at a healthcare centre built by the ICRC in 2007.

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Food distribution at Eldoret camp for the displaced, which hosted 12,000 people during the post-election violence in Kenya in early 2008.

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Gereida camp, Darfur, Sudan. An Australian Red Cross nurse and her team go around the camp checking children for malnutrition (by measuring the circumference of their arms).

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Gereida camp, Darfur, Sudan. People carrying goods received during an ICRC distribution in November 2007.

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Internally displaced persons camp in Mogadishu, Somalia. Portrait of a woman preparing peanuts to sell in town.

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Palaro displaced persons camp, Uganda. The ICRC distributing urgently needed household items to camp residents.

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Internally displaced persons camp in Arkoum, eastern Chad, February 2008. The site consists of the village plus people displaced by fighting near the Sudanese border. The camp now houses over 10,000 displaced persons, the first of whom arrived at the end of 2005.

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Eldoret camp, Kenya, January 2008. ICRC food distribution at the camp that housed 12,000 displaced people following post-election violence in early 2008.

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Near Kaga Bandoro, Central African Republic. Displaced families carrying household items received from the ICRC.

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Internally displaced persons camp in Mogadishu, December 2006. 800,000 people – refugees and displaced persons – were living in huts and ruined buildings in the capital.

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Lower Juba region, Afmadow district, Somalia. Internally displaced people in front of their shelter.

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Kitgum District, Uganda. ICRC staff presenting to residents of Ngomoro displaced persons camp as part of a cholera awareness campaign.