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Panama City Snapshots

September 1, 2021

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City centre skyline and Bay.

View of Panama City.

A View of Balboa Avenue.

Old Panama City ruins. The Old City was declared a Unesco world heritage site 1997.

Panama Old Quarters (Casco Viejo), a city founded in 1673 to replace Old Panama City.

Selling fruits in the street.

Kuna women in their traditional dress.

Red Devil Bus (Diablo Rojo), public transport in a street of Panama City at sunset.  Photo: Tiagofernandezphotography/123RF

An ice cream seller in Panama City. Photo: chrispictures/123RF

The Pollera the national costume of Panama.

The Bridge of the America is a 1.5 km long structure that unites east and west of the isthmus of Panama.

The Panama Canal. “ The Eighth World Wonder”.

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The hidden victims of the Yemen war

August 3, 2021

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Dinka Postcards

July 1, 2021

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The Dinka people are a Nilotic ethnic group native to South Sudan.

The Dinka mostly live along the Nile, from Jonglei to Renk, in the region of Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile and the Abyei Area of the Ngok Dinka in South Sudan.

They number around 4.5 million people, constituting about 12 percent of the population of the entire country.

The Dinka constitute the largest ethnic group in South Sudan.

The Dinka set up big cattle camps near the Nile to make sure their animals are close to grazing pastures.

The cattle play a central role in Dinka culture and survival.

Elder Dinka. Age is an important factor in Dinka culture

The Dinka and Nuer. Long-time rivals who had battled over land and resources since at least the 19th century.

The Dinka have a diverse vocabulary with which to describe their world. It is estimated that they have more than 400 to refer to cattle alone.

Dinka mother with her little child.

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Water For All

June 3, 2021

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Little boy pumping water for his sister. Some 2.2 billion people do not have access to clean water at home.

People carrying laundry home from a water source where they were washed.

A genuine gift is like water from the tap; when it flows out, it does not flow back. (Zambian proverb).

Two young boys carry water next to a camp for displaced people near the town of Jowhar, Somalia.

Uganda. Girls carry jerry cans to the wells to fetch water.

A girl on her way home with a bucket of water.

A solar-powered borehole provides water to more than 6,000 residents in a camp for displaced people in Maiduguri in north-eastern Nigeria.

Children carrying water containers home from a water source.

Children fill their cups at a water point built by UNICEF at Kanyosha III primary school in Bujumbura, Burundi.

A girl draws water from a fountain in Kano, Nigeria.

It is never the earth that gives its gift to the rain, but the rain that gives its gift to the earth. (Congolese proverb).

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Mali. Along the Niger River

May 5, 2021

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Mopti, Mali. Large passenger canoes (pinasses) leave the city's Niger River port for surrounding towns and villages.

Kabara, Mali. A canoe ferries a woman across the Niger River, passing a barge loaded (a large canoe known as a pinasse) with jerry cans and oil barrels.

Mopti, Mali. People, including two soldiers, queue to boars a ferry boat which will take them to destinations along the Niger River.

Mopti, Mali. A group of boys and other passengers wait to depart in a ferry boat (a large canoe known as a pinasse) for a journey on the river Niger.

Women travelling with baggage in a large Niger River passenger canoe (pinasse)

Small canoes (pirogues) and larger craft (pinasses) ply the Niger River with passengers and cargo.

A Niger River ferry boat's vehicle ramp near a mud-built city gate.

Segou, Mali. Two boys wheel a cart through a mud-built city gate near the Niger River.

Mopti, Mali. Small canoes (pirogues) and larger craft (pinasses) ply the Niger River with passengers and cargo.

A woman bales water from a canoe moored on the Niger river beside large boats known as pinasses.

Karaba, Mali. The Niger River reflected in a window.

View along the Niger River.

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Cambodian Spirit

April 8, 2021

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Disturb no one, and you will be in peace. (Cambodian Proverb)

If you plant, you harvest. (Cambodian Proverb)

Cultivate a heart of love that knows no anger. (Cambodian Proverb)

Knowing yourself to be ignorant, you will eventually become wise. (Cambodian Proverb)

Active hands, full bellies. (Cambodian Proverb)

The boat sails by, the shore remains. (Cambodian Proverb)

For news of the heart ask the face. (Cambodian Proverb)

You don't have to cut a tree down to get at the fruit. (Cambodian Proverb)

Don’t take the straight path or the winding path. Take the path your ancestors have taken. (Cambodian Proverb)

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will spare yourself one hundred days of tears. (Cambodian Proverb)

You can’t claim heaven as your own if you are just going to sit under it. (Cambodian Proverb)

Hearing a thousand times does not equal seeing once. (Cambodian Proverb)

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Turkana People. Always on the move.

March 7, 2021

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Turkana live in semi-arid region, in North-Western Kenya.

Armed with Kalashnikov and G3 assault rifles bring their cattle to the river.

While the men take livestock to water or graze, families set up temporary homes.

A little girl searching for water. There are few, if any, developed wells for community and livestock drinking water.

Livestock is an important aspect of Turkana life.

Goats, camels, donkeys and zebu are the primary herd stock utilized by the Turkana people.

Turkana women wear necklaces they make themselves. They are an indication of social status.

Turkana jewellery is made of glass, seeds, shells, iron or tin.

Turkana girls. They have elaborate clothing and adornment styles.

Ostrich feather caps are worn as the ceremonial headdress.

Elder Turkana. They call themselves Ngiturkan and their land Eturkan.

Turkana homesteads are temporary and mainly made of thorny boughs.

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Asia. Images

February 4, 2021

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Nepal. Gurung girls wearing traditional costumes.

Sri Lanka. Fishermen climb higher on their poles after waves hit the shore in Weligama.

Myanmar. A man rides on an ox cart during a competition at Nay Young Pya Inn Pagoda on the outskirts of Naypytaw.

Bangladesh. Children play football in a dockyard in Dhaka.

A Nepalese Hindu devotee washes her feet as she waits to collect holy water from Bagmati River.

A Kashmiri man walks through a paddy field in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Nepal. Monks with lit candles attend an event to spread the message of 'world peace’.

Nepal. A women fills her basket with marigold flowers.

North Korea. A man reads newspapers at a subway station in Pyongyang.

Afghanistan. People sit around a fire to warm themselves after a heavy snowfall in Kabul.

Indonesia. Balinese Hindu girls wait to perform the Rejang Dewa dance in Jakarta.

Young people attend a Climate Strike rally, as Afghan security forces guard them in Kabul.

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Bangladesh, Railway as a Home

December 29, 2020

Photo: MONGCHENKYA RAKHAINE

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Christmas Time

November 27, 2020

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Nurses hold new-born babies wearing protective face shields at the Praram 9 Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand.

A migrant carrying a child waits to cross the border with Croatia near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia.

A migrant child who was picked in the Mediterranean Sea waves as she waits to disembark from a rescue boat at the port of Malaga, Spain.

A women covers her baby with a stole as they travel in a boat on Dal Lake during a snowfall in Srinagar, Indian-Administered Kashmir.

'Being born on earth is a sacred assignment' (Mayan proverb).

Demonstrator Twana Buck and her daughter Bonita sit in the street near the White House as protests triggered by the death of George Floyd while in police custody.

Demonstrators, including mothers and babies in defence of Mother Earth. London.

Diana Paola Angola, recently recovered from COVID-19, holds her son Jefferson at the neonatal room in the Versailles Clinic, in Cali, Colombia.

Afghanistan. An internally displaced Afghan girls stands outside her house at a camp in Kabul.

Honduran migrants, jump over a border fence into the US from Tijuana, Mexico.

Bangladesh. A mother with her child in Tejgao slum, Dhaka.

Pakistan. A mother with a child takes a selfie.

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