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Five-year-old triplets, Karen, Dorgas, and Deborah, in the makeshift camp in Kitale, Rift Valley.
Five-year-old triplets, Karen, Dorgas, and Deborah, in the makeshift camp in Kitale, Rift Valley. © Anna Husarska
As the political reconciliation process advances, tens of thousands of Kenyans are forced to live in makeshift shelters while receiving humanitarian aid from relief organizations working on the ground. In today's features, a series of vivid photographs introduces us to some of these refugees and the hardships they face as they struggle to continue with their lives during this daunting limbo.

In news, a former top official in Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence comes clean about the agency's manipulation of the 2002 elections in favor of President Musharraf and urges the army to be less involved in politics. And, in analysis, Michael Renner discusses what he considers the UN's overstretched and grossly underfunded peacekeeping capacity.
A former high-ranking official from Pakistan's "shadowy but powerful" Inter Services Intelligence admitted to having manipulated the 2002 elections in favor of President Musharraf and is now saying the organization's political activities should be laid down.
From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
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As many as half a million Sri Lankans could be affected in 2008 alone as violence between the secessionist group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam, and the government continues to intensify.
From: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
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At risk: Nepali children at a WFP feeding programme
The World Food Programme is to hold an emergency meeting this week to discuss how to respond to "a perfect storm" of circumstances that have pushed food prices so high that the UN warns that it does not have enough money to keep global malnutrition at bay.
+ Skyrocketing food prices threaten nutritional crisis for Central Americans
From: Guardian Unlimited
Image: At risk: Nepali children at a WFP feeding programme © Naresh Newar / United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
Plan's operations in Pakistan have been suspended after four people - including three staff members - were killed by gunmen in Mansehra in the North West Frontier district.
From: Plan UK
Babubhai Parmar, Fairtrade cotton farmer, India
Sales of Fairtrade products in Britain last year hit a record high of £493m ($971m), an 81 per cent increase over the previous year.
From: Fairtrade Foundation
Image: Babubhai Parmar, Fairtrade cotton farmer, India
UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2003.
"In 2006, the world spent $1,232 billion on its militaries, or 228 times the U.N. peacekeeping budget," writes Michael Renner, noting that the organization continues to take on more and increasingly complex peacekeeping operations.
From: Worldwatch Institute
Image: UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2003. © Refugees International
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A boy forced to flee his home by post-election violence in Kenya.
Photographs from the 'front lines' of an international refugee agency's work in Kenya encapsulates the uncertainty and desperation of families and individuals displaced by the post-election uprisings.
From: openDemocracy
Image: A boy forced to flee his home by post-election violence in Kenya. © Anna Husarska
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In Chajul, Guatemala, where most inhabitants are Ixil.
In harrowing testimony, survivors recount the Guatemalan military's scorched earth campaign of the 1980s and 90s that forced indigenous communities to face death, life in hiding, or the confines of ghetto-like controlled villages.
From: North American Congress on Latin America
Image: In Chajul, Guatemala, where most inhabitants are Ixil. © North American Congress on Latin America
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Chinese e-waste scrap yard, seen through a discarded monitor (© Greenpeace)
Fred Pearce's journey to understand what happens to his old computers revealed success stories, but also children working with acid.
Image: Chinese e-waste scrap yard, seen through a discarded monitor (© Greenpeace)


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