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Category: World Understanding Award

Winner
Jan Grarup
Freelance
"Somalia in transition"

Judges' Special Recognition
Ryan Spencer Reed
Independent
"Despite similarities to reality"

Finalist
Edu Ponces
RUIDO Photo
"Sala Negra. Daily violence in Central America"

Finalist
Paula Bronstein
Freelance for Getty Images
"Between Life and War: The Struggles of Afghan Women"

Finalist
Renée Byer
The Sacramento Bee
"Living on a Dollar a Day: The Lives and Faces of the World's Poor"

 
Winner
Jan Grarup
Freelance

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"Somalia in transition"

An old woman overlooking the Badbado IDP camp in the outskirts of the city. Badbado is the largest of the many IDP camps in the city. More than 200.000 refugees are believed to live in the city. Mogadishu;SomaliaThe Horn of Africa is facing a severe crisis due to the convergent effects of the worst droughts in decades, and the persistent effects of armed conflict in Somalia, which has combined to trigger one of the sharpest refugee outflows in a decade to Kenya and Ethiopia. Over ten million people are at high risk including 2.85 million persons in Somalia, 3.2 million in Ethiopia and 3.5 million in Kenya.

 

 

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