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Sub-Saharan Africa

Rape victim, South Africa.

Psychosocial support

“You are not crazy, your situation was”

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by Esther Mujawayo
After the civil war in Burundi, most of the rebels surrendered their weapons to the military.

Burundi

The acid test

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by Gesine Ames
by Jean-Marie Vianney ­Kavumbagu
Politically active: a woman registering for the 2010 elections in Burundi’s capital city, Bujumbura.

Peacebuilding

Great achievement

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by Anne Niyuhire
Widespread distrust makes collective action difficult: farmers in Burundi.

Gender

“There should be enough food”

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by Anthea Bethge
MSF nurse putting on protective gear in Guiniea.

Ebola epidemic

“Run into the burning building”

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by Joanne Liu
Thanks to support from VSFG, Siciido Samatar, a Somalian milk vendor, was able to buy a refrigerator.

Civil-society organisation

Depending on livestock

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by Vétérinaires Sans Frontières
Farhiyo Yusuf, shopkeeper in a camp for internally displaced persons.

Microfinance

Women’s economic empowerment

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by Abdirahim S. Gure
Kilasa Mtambalike

Nowadays

Regulating traditions

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Appropriate facilities remain the exception though they should be the rule: children at the Shashemene Centre for the Blind in Ethiopia.

Disability

The case of Amdework Yitayal

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by Abebe Yehualawork
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