Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs), refugees from the conflict with Boko Haram, carry building materials across the dried up bed of Lake Chad. Lake Chad, which spanned 9,652sqm in 1963, has shrunk...

People helping take suitcases to a point from where their friends will be evacuated to safety. Due to extensive shelling, several people with their pet cats decided to leave for safety.

Women cry when saying goodbye to their friends during their evacuation. They have been living together in a cellar for months during heavy shelling by Russian forces and now they decided to leave for...

A couple from Mykolayiv say their goodbyes and embrace before boarding a Lviv bound train at Odessa's railway station.

Refugees from Mykolayiv embrace before boarding a Lviv bound train at Odessa's railway station.

Refugees from Mykolayiv boarding a Lviv bound train at Odessa's railway station.

A family of refugees from Mykolayiv make their way along a platform of Odessa's railway station prior to boarding a Lviv bound train.

A young refugee child from Mykolayiv cries as they walk with an adult along a platform of Odessa's railway station prior to boarding a Lviv bound train.

A train guard helps a family of refugees from Mykolayiv board a train at Odessa's railway staton, bound for Lviv.

Dayis Amin and his father, refugees from Ethiopia. Dayis Amin and Suldan have been here in an IDP camp in Boroma with their eight children for two weeks. They fled from Ethiopia for a combination of...

It took 12 days on foot for Anajow Abane to reach Boroma from Walo, Kamise. 'We fled from fighting and drought,' she said, 'The fighting was bad and they killed my husband and two of my children.'...

Refugees from the fighting in Ethiopia scrambling for bread distributed in the town centre.

Boucri Coulibaly (50), from Ogossagou village, with his wives and children. Thousands of Fulani (semi-nomadic herders of the Sahel) have been displaced by fighting with the Dogon people and have fled...

A drinks shop owner gives out free tea to refugees who have crossed th eborder from Ethiopia. Restaurant and tea shop owners feel obliged to help out with the situation.

Suldan with her children in their 'kitchen' in an informal refugee camp. Dayis Amin (not pictured) and Suldan have been here in an IDP camp in Boroma with their eight children for two weeks. They fle...

Refugees shelter in the shadows, away from the piercing sunlight when the sun is high.

Suldan with her children in an informal refugee camp. Dayis Amin (not pictured) and Suldan have been here in an IDP camp in Boroma with their eight children for two weeks. They fled from Ethiopia for...

Refugees shelter in the shadows, away from the piercing sunlight when the sun is high.

The leader of the camp, the 'chairperson', Koos Mohammmed. ''I have personal experience of dangerouse explosives'', she said, ''next to my house, I was burning rubish. Suddenly there was a big explosi...

Hundreds of people sleeping rough in downtown Boroma, having crossed the border to escape the conflict in Ethiopia.

Hundreds of people sleeping rough in downtown Boroma, having crossed the border to escape the conflict in Ethiopia.

Hundreds of people sleeping rough in downtown Boroma, having crossed the border to escape the conflict in Ethiopia.

The EOD police have an explosive store built for them by MAG in 2010. Unfortunately it is full as the team don't have the capacity to conduct demolitions. They receive calls from the community on a da...

An elderly man with cataracts in both eyes at a displaced persons camp Leer town. Since the end of 2013, conflict has cost almost 400,000 lives and left six million people, of a population of 11 mill...

Dar es Salaam Refugee camp which houses refugees from the conflict with Boko Haram. Lake Chad, which spanned 9,652sqm in 1963, has shrunk by 90 per cent in recent decades. Climate change is to blame,...

Dar es Salaam Refugee camp which houses refugees from the conflict with Boko Haram. Lake Chad, which spanned 9,652sqm in 1963, has shrunk by 90 per cent in recent decades. Climate change is to blame,...

Village elders discuss the situation they find themselves in. Jipril Farah: ''We are overwhelmed, there are so many people coming. It has never been like this before. People are very worried about the...

There is a large water point about 10 kilometres from Buroa where herds of goats, sheep and camels wait for a turn at the water trough. There are thousands of animals. Camel herders sing loudly and at...

Abdi Akim walked for three days with four of his children to get here. ''I left my wife at home with the two youngest children and a couple of milking goats. I hope they will be ok. I had to save our...

There is a large water point about 10 kilometres from Buroa where herds of goats, sheep and camels wait for a turn at the water trough. There are thousands of animals. Camel herders sing loudly and at...

There is a large water point about 10 kilometres from Buroa where herds of goats, sheep and camels wait for a turn at the water trough. There are thousands of animals. Camel herders sing loudly and at...

There is a large water point about 10 kilometres from Buroa where herds of goats, sheep and camels wait for a turn at the water trough. There are thousands of animals. Camel herders sing loudly and at...

Anti-personnel landmines, heavy calibre ammunition, anti-vehicle mines, mortar bombs, projectiles and a SAM (surface to air) missile in the overflowing explosive store. Lieutenant Khadar is proud of...

Raho (left) is the leader of the women's group in the camp and is the MAG focal point regarding weapons safety and EORE.

A group of volunteers from the UK and Ukraine, help an elderly woman board an evacuation bus near Bakhmut. With Russian forces less than 10 miles from the city, more people are deciding to leave for f...

Miana, a refugee from Mauriupol, arrives at a makeshift reception centre in a Zaporizhzhia supermarket car park.

A boy looks out of a bus door which has brought refugees from Mauriupol to Zaporizhzhia.

A man holding a pet cat sits with refugees from Mauriupol at a makeshift reception centre in a Zaporizhzhia supermarket.

Ludmilla Rodichkina (84), a refugee from Mauriupol, arrives, with her daughter (not pictured) at a makeshift reception centre in a Zaporizhzhia supermarket car park.

Ludmilla Rodichkina (84), a refugee from Mauriupol, arrives, with her daughter (not pictured) at a makeshift reception centre in a Zaporizhzhia supermarket car park.

Ludmilla Rodichkina (84), with daughter Natalia. Refugees from Mauriupol arrive at a makeshift reception centre in a Zaporizhzhia supermarket car park.

Dar es Salaam Refugee camp which houses refugees from the conflict with Boko Haram. Lake Chad, which spanned 9,652sqm in 1963, has shrunk by 90 per cent in recent decades. Climate change is to blame,...

Reed huts built by Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs), refugees from the conflict with Boko Haram, on the dried up bed of Lake Chad. Lake Chad, which spanned 9,652sqm in 1963, has shrunk by 90 per...

Reed huts built by Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs), refugees from the conflict with Boko Haram, on the dried up bed of Lake Chad. Lake Chad, which spanned 9,652sqm in 1963, has shrunk by 90 per...

Reed huts built by Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs), refugees from the conflict with Boko Haram, on the dried up bed of Lake Chad. Lake Chad, which spanned 9,652sqm in 1963, has shrunk by 90 per...

Volunteers from the UK and Ukraine, working with the NGO Vostok-SOS, carry Nina Zakharenko (72) during an evacuation mission in the city of Bakhmut. As Russian forces continue their offensive in easte...

A refugees from the conflict with Boko Haram, Diche Ibrahim (30), with her one-year-old twins, Hassan and Husseina, who recently failed the camp clinic's nutrition test and have been put on a treatmen...

Retired railway worker, Nina Zakharenko (72) is emotional having left her home in Bakhmut during an evacuation mission run by Vostok-SOS. As Russian forces continue their offensive in eastern Ukraine,...

Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs), refugees from the conflict with Boko Haram, carry building materials across the dried up bed of Lake Chad. Lake Chad, which spanned 9,652sqm in 1963, has shrunk...

Volunteers from the UK and Ukraine, working with the NGO Vostok-SOS, lift Oleksandr Samoilenko (44) into a minivan during an evacuation mission in the city of Bakhmut. As Russian forces continue the...

Volunteers from the UK and Ukraine, working with the NGO Vostok-SOS, prepare to carry Petro Boreyko (90) from his home during an evacuation mission in the city of Bakhmut. As Russian forces continue t...

A man working in a vegetable field. Lake Chad, which spanned 9,652sqm in 1963, has shrunk by 90 per cent in recent decades. Climate change is to blame, with population growth and unplanned irrigation...

Mykhaylo Silichkin (62) leaves his home in Bakhmut during an evacuation mission run by Vostok-SOS. As Russian forces continue their offensive in eastern Ukraine, a range of mostly volunteer groups are...

Hinba Elmi with her camels. Three years ago authorities gathered large thorn barriers people had placed as land boundaries and collected them into a big pile and burnt them. No one knew there was an e...

Petro Boreyko (90) is put on an evacuation train run by the French NGO MSF. As Russian forces continue their offensive in eastern Ukraine, a range of mostly volunteer groups are working to evacuate si...

Pavlo Boreyko, stands beside his father, Petro Boreyko (90), while they wait for him to be put on an evacuation train run by the French NGO MSF. As Russian forces continue their offensive in eastern U...

Hawa and Hussain are from one of around eighty families that have recently travelled to this area with their goats, sheep and camels. ''We are in despair'', she said, ''when the drought came, we trav...

Families struggle to receive limited handouts of bread in the centre of Boroma. The families follow a daily routine moving from the bakery in the morning to tea shops and market corners hoping for sus...

Miuco Watle family, from Amhara, who have crossed the border to escape the conflict in Ethiopia.

Hawa and Hussain are from one of around eighty families that have recently travelled to this area with their goats, sheep and camels. ''We are in despair'', she said, ''when the drought came, we trav...

Elderly and sick civilians, along with their children and carers, board an MSF run medical evacuation train in Pokrovsk.

Elderly and sick civilians, along with their children and carers, board an MSF run medical evacuation train in Pokrovsk.

Evacuees arrive at a hospital in Sloviansk where they were to stay overnight before being sent further west by train. As Russian forces continue their offensive in eastern Ukraine, a range of mostly v...

Nuur Hassan, ''I left my family living in terrible conditions, I had to save the animals or we would all die. I don't know if I will see them again.''

Maria Alefirenko (31), who was injured in a mortar attack during the war in eastern Ukraine in 2014, arrives at a hospital in Sloviansk where evacuees were to stay overnight before being sent furthe...

Haniid and Bakaa building a shelter outside Buroa. People are arriving every day to escape the worst effects of the drought.

Elderly and sick civilians, along with their children and carers, board an MSF run medical evacuation train in Pokrovsk.

Maria Alefirenko (31), who was injured in a mortar attack during the war in eastern Ukraine in 2014, is lifted into a car, while her father looks on and says goodbye. As Russian forces continue thei...

Volunteers from the UK and Ukraine, working with the NGO Vostok-SOS, prepare to carry Petro Boreyko (90) down five flights of stairs from his home during an evacuation mission in the city of Bakhmut....

Volunteers from the UK and Ukraine, working with the NGO Vostok-SOS, pause in the doorway of Vadym Turchyn's apartment building during a barrage of seemingly nearby explosions. As Russian forces conti...

Volunteers from the UK and Ukraine, working with the NGO Vostok-SOS, prepare to lift Mykhaylo Bondarenko (73) during an evacuation mission near the city of Sloviansk. As Russian forces continue their...

Zinaida (77), who is blind and struggled to walk, rests in a minibus after being carried from her apartment during an evacuation mission in the city of Bakhmut. As Russian forces continue their offens...

Elderly and sick evacuees from the city of Bakhmut lie in the back of a minivan during an evacuation mission run by Vostok-SOS. As Russian forces continue their offensive in eastern Ukraine, a range o...

Volunteers from the UK and Ukraine, working with the NGO Vostok-SOS, help Zinaida (77), who is blind and struggled to walk, carrying her down five flights of stairs during an evacuation mission in the...

A man sits beside the tracks at Lviv Central railway station.

A woman refugee looks out of train carriage window at Lviv Central railway station.

Volunteers from the UK and Ukraine, working with the NGO Vostok-SOS, help Zinaida (77), who is blind and struggled to walk, onto a fabric stretcher before lifting her down five flights of stairs durin...

A child wearing a pink coat waiting among a crowd of refugees at Lviv Central railway station.

A woman makes a V-for-vistory sign while waiting among a crowd of refugees at Lviv Central railway station.

There is a large water point about 10 kilometres from Buroa where herds of goats, sheep and camels wait for a turn at the water trough. There are thousands of animals. Camel herders sing loudly and at...

A man and a child run along a platform at Lviv Central railway station.

A group of refugees at Lviv Central railway station.

People are camped all around the area. There is water not far away and there is also a very large reserved grazing area for animals in emergencies such as this. The land has not been grazed on since 2...

Refugees find temporary accommodation in the Les Kurbos theatre.

Refugees find temporary accommodation in the Les Kurbos theatre.

A couple from Mykolayiv say their goodbyes and embrace before the woman boards a Lviv bound train at Odessa's railway station.

Maria Alefirenko (31), who was injured in a mortar attack during the war in eastern Ukraine in 2014, arrives at a hospital in Sloviansk where evacuees were to stay overnight before being sent furthe...

A couple from Mykolayiv say their goodbyes and embrace before the woman boards a Lviv bound train at Odessa's railway station.

Couples from Mykolayiv say their goodbyes and embrace before the women board a Lviv bound train at Odessa's railway station.

A boy scavenging on a rubbish dumps at an IDP camp. Thousands of Fulani (semi-nomadic herders of the Sahel) have been displaced by fighting with the Dogon people and have fled to refugee camps in Ba...