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Sudan's 'un-noticed' crisis Sudan's 21 year civil war left more than two million people dead and drove more than four million from their homes. In 2005, the mainly Muslim north signed a peace agreement with the mostly Christian south. But since then, tensions have returned along the border - which straddles the country's huge oil reserves. Today reporter Mike Thomson has been to southern Sudan - to see how decades of conflict have left people in need of food and medicine: <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="352" align="center"><tr><td><table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="30" border="0" bgcolor="#cccccc" width="100%" height="33"><tr><td bgcolor="#fafafa"><div class="font-family:Verdana;color:#666666;font-size:11px;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#333333;font-size:18px;font-weight:800;"><strong>Javascript and Flash plug-in required</strong></span><P>Either the Flash plugin was not detected on your computer or the JavaScript features of your brower have been disabled.
George Steinmetz - Salt Deserts of Iran Salt Deserts of Iran In 2003 I was given permission to take aerial photos in Iran, the first person to be given such permission since the Islamic revolution. Much like today, it was a very awkward time to be an American photographer working in Iran, as US forces were both Iraq and Afganistan, and the country was proceeding with its controversial nuclear development program.
Middle East | Lebanon war image causes controversy Thousands of pictures were taken in Lebanon during the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006, but it was a surprising picture by Spencer Platt, an American photo journalist for Getty Images, that was chosen as best news picture of the year. It was awarded the first prize in the prestigious World Press Photo awards. The award sparked a debate in Lebanon. The picture appears to neatly summarise Lebanon's contradictions - glamour amidst the destruction, seemingly careless rich kids on a voyeuristic trip. But there is much more to the picture than these cliches. Spencer Platt took his picture on 15 August, a day after the ceasefire, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, as thousands of people flocked back to homes they had fled during the Israeli shelling. The original caption accompanying the picture read: "Affluent Lebanese drive down the street to look at a destroyed neighbourhood 15 August 2006 in southern Beirut, Lebanon." She isn't in this group picture.
Healing Iraq The Haqq Agency reported that dozens of young Kurdish men descended on a hotel in Erbil in the Kurdish region Friday and attacked Yazidi workers who were staying at the hotel. The manager of the Merga Sur Hotel said that up to 50 men attempted to storm the hotel to attack Yazidis working in Erbil, and that a large number of Yazidis have slipped away back to their villages around Mosul fearing further attacks. The reactions against members of the Yazidi faith, an ancient sect in northern Iraq, Turkey, Syria and the Caucasus, which combines Islamic teachings with Zoroastrianism, were thought to be in retaliation against the murder of a Yezidi teenage woman who converted to Islam after falling in love with a Muslim Kurd. The girl was detained by the police and then sheltered by a Muslim sheikh before she was returned to her village near Mosul after assurance was received from her family that she was forgiven. Continued.
Photo Op: Child Brides in Afghanistan