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Photos of Somalia, north east Africa: Landscape, cattle, people, livestock, Gahan, Mendishi

Gahan escarpment, Gulf of Aden, cattle, Gebdeleh, Mendishi, local pottery, Bulhar, women chatting 
SOM85PF13_01 Gahan / Gacaan Libax escarpment (Lions Paw), vegetated cliffs, hazy green shrubby mountains. N.W.Somalia. Copyright Tropix (P. Frances) SOM85PF14_02 High view shallow wavelets, low slanting sunlight on sandy seashore. Berbera Beach, Gulf of Aden, coastal Somalia. Copyright Tropix (P. Frances) SOM85PF10_16 Thin, bony bullocks, beef cattle, grazing on thin grass cover, eroding soil; shady trees. Gedebleh, N.W.Somalia. Copyright Tropix (P. Frances) SOM85PF10_15 Thin cow grazing green grass; natural spring pool; bullrushes; man; thorn fence; hillside erosion. Mendishi, N.E.Somalia Copyright Tropix (P. Frances) SOM87PF6_18 Pottery water container in wooden stand, enamel lid; traditional crafts; mosquito and dirt protection. N.W.Somalia. Copyright Tropix (P. Frances) SOM85PF9_24 Boys holds goat while vet does vaccination with syringe; UNICEF funding; livestock, arid land. Bulhar, N.W.Somalia. Copyright Tropix (P. Frances) SOM84PF10_12 Three well dressed smiling women (1 pregnant?) standing by laden dromedary camel, chatting; desert. Somalia.

Women: Basket weaving, carrying firewood, washing baby, smiling girl, at blackboard, butchers, smart
SOM85PF11_07 Older refugee woman sits in tent weaving grass basket; handicrafts; sick grandchild on naso-gastric drip. Somalia. SOM84PF12_04 Two women, huge firewood loads on back and on donkey, walking on tarmac road; fuel, deforestation, energy. Somalia. Copyright Tropix (P. Frances) SOM85PF6_02 Hygiene. Crying toddler girl is bathed in basin bath, woman soaping, lather on hair, arm. Hargeysa Orphanage, Somalia. SOM85PF1_02 Smiling young Somali girl; missing tooth, fluffy hair, fly on forehead; from Hargeisa (Hargeysa) Orphanage. Somalia. SOM84PF11_09 Young man, teacher, painting blackboard, no brush, using bare hand; Koranic school; work, religion, Islam. Somalia. Copyright Tropix (P. Frances) SOM84PF11_03 Women butchers / market vendors in headscarves, long dresses, hold fresh meat, stretched goat hides. Geebiley, Somalia. Copyright Tropix (P. Frances) SOM85PF8_11 Refugees from Ethiopia arrive with bundles at Borama, to be registered and sent to refugee camps; Somalia Copyright Tropix (P. FRANCES)

Bixin Duule refugee camp: aid, relief, malnutrition, marasmus, dehydration, feeding and migration. 
SOM84PF3,23 Hungry women and children refugees stand together. Bixin Duule Refugee Camp, N.W. Somalia. Copyright and Credit: www.tropix.co.uk (P. Frances) SOM84PF4,19 US food aid: sacks of soya milk and grain, famine relief, disaster caused by war. Bixin Duule Refugee Camp, N.W.Somalia. Copyright and Credit: www.tropix.co.uk (P. Frances) SOM85PF7,16 Malnutrition: emaciated child with marasmus; burns on stomach traditional treatment. Bixin Duule refugee camp, Somalia. Copyright and Credit: www.tropix.co.uk (P. Frances) SOM85PF7,12 Malnutrition. Child suffering from marasmus has classical old man's face. Bixin Duule refugee camp, Somalia. Copyright and Credit: www.tropix.co.uk (P. Frances) SOM85PF1,09 Flies on refugee child's face, (lack of water); Bixin Duule Refugee Camp, Somalia. Copyright and Credit: www.tropix.co.uk (P. FRANCES) SOM85PF2,13 Children queue for food, carry tin cups & firewood to exchange for ration. Bixin Duule Refugee Camp, N.W.Somalia. Copyright and Credit: www.tropix.co.uk (P. Frances) SOM84PF5,13 Refugees walk down dirt road to Agabar camp situated at foot of hills, near Ethiopian border, Somalia. Copyright and Credit: www.tropix.co.uk (P. Frances)

Livestock and animals: Land tortoise, Somali pigeons,  camel train. Youth: with policeman, labour. 
SOM84PF13_17 Wildlife: shy land tortoise crossing empty tarmac road, withdrawn head emerging; transport; slowness. Geebiley, Somalia. Copyright Tropix (P. Frances) SOM85PF13_15 Birds: pair of Somali Pigeon Columba oliviae, perched on metal roof; endemic species; eye ring; comical. Somalia. Copyright Tropix (P. Frances) SOM86PF10_13 Camel (dromedary) train, Berbera Beach; livestock trade area; former lighthouse now collapsed. Gulf of Aden, N.Somalia. Copyright Tropix (P. Frances) SOM85PF11_10 Policeman, blue beret, friendly smile, walks towards teenage boy; scrubby semi-desert; dromedary camel. Somalia. Copyright Tropix (P. Frances) SOM84PF12_07 Twelve refugee boys carrying firewood on heads, collected for koranic school; arid, treeless; deforestation. Somalia. Copyright Tropix (P. Frances)

Land: deforestation with well, farming maize, Shebelle River. People: Market, waiting at Health Centre
SOM85PF6_16 Protected (covered) well with handpump, clean water supply; village; deforested arid land, soil erosion. N.W.Somalia. Copyright Tropix (P. Frances) SOM85PF10_20 Somali youth using slingshot, scaring bird from healthy maize crop; farming, pest control. Mendishi, N.E.Somalia. Copyright Tropix (P. Frances) SOM86PF14_20 Canoe on Shebelle River (Schebelle / Shabele / Shabell), permanent waterway; distant vegetation. Kismayo, S.Somalia. Copyright Tropix (P. Frances) SOM84PF11_01 Smiling man leans by leafy acacia tree in market square; women traders chat; 1 stretching hide to dry. Gebileh, Somalia. Copyright Tropix (P. Frances) SOM85PF8_10 Women, long dresses, headscarves, holding babies, sitting waiting outside health centre. Agabar Refugee Camp, Somalia. Copyright Tropix (P. FRANCES)

Northern Somalia: Erigavo, agriculture, Berbera Beach, Mendishi, Gedebleh, boy under giant fig tree
SOM84PF11,16 Men sit reading outside blue painted stone house; other homes, 1 being built. Erigavo, N.E.Somalia. Copyright and Credit: www.tropix.co.uk (P. Frances) SOM85PF10_22 Cheerful women walking in low yield crop of sorghum, subsistence farming, staple crop; arid weedy soil. N.W.Somalia. SOM85PF14,17 Sunset over Berbera beach, reflections in rippling sands; Gulf of Aden, Somalia. Copyright and Credit: www.tropix.co.uk (P. Frances) SOM85PF10,19 Girl drives ox-plough, weeds cassava plot; hilly, arid land; subsistence farming. Mendishi, North East Somalia. Copyright and Credit: www.tropix.co.uk (P. Frances) SOM85PF10_18 View under branch of giant fig tree to small boy, cowherd, and bullock walking; shady trees. Gedebleh, N.W.Somalia. Copyright Tropix (P. Frances)

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