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  • A Kurdish truck driver from Turkey at a yard with thousands of oil tanker trucks on their way to Iraq to bring Iraqi crude oil back to Turkey. Much of this oil export is illegal under UN sanctions against Iraq, but a blind eye has been turned toward the trade. The Kurds of Northern Iraq tax the transport of the oil through their territory. Turkey has been accused of cutting back on the trade in order to squeeze the Iraqi Kurds' unity, fearing independence claims from Turkey's own 12 million Kurds...Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan. 01/12/2002...Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A Kurdish truck driver from Turkey at the Iraqi border with hundreds of oil tanker trucks on their way to Iraq to bring Iraqi crude oil back to Turkey. Much of this oil export is illegal under UN sanctions against Iraq, but a blind eye has been turned toward the trade. The Kurds of Northern Iraq tax the transport of the oil through their territory. Turkey has been accused of cutting back on the trade in order to squeeze the Iraqi Kurds' unity, fearing independence claims from Turkey's own 12 million Kurds...Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan. 01/12/2002...Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A Kurdish truck driver from Turkey at a yard with thousands of oil tanker trucks on their way to Iraq to bring Iraqi crude oil back to Turkey. Much of this oil export is illegal under UN sanctions against Iraq, but a blind eye has been turned toward the trade. The Kurds of Northern Iraq tax the transport of the oil through their territory. Turkey has been accused of cutting back on the trade in order to squeeze the Iraqi Kurds' unity, fearing independence claims from Turkey's own 12 million Kurds...Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan. 01/12/2002...Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Tanker trucks bringing Iraqi crude oil to Turkey from Iraq at the Iraqi-Turkish border. Much of this oil export is illegal under UN sanctions against Iraq, but a blind eye has been turned toward the trade. The Kurds of Northern Iraq tax the transport of the oil through their territory. Turkey has been accused of cutting back on the trade in order to squeeze the Iraqi Kurds' unity, fearing independence claims from Turkey's own 12 million Kurds...Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan. 01/12/2002...Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Thousands of oil tanker trucks bringing Iraqi crude oil to Turkey backed up at the border waiting to enter the country. Much of this oil export is illegal under UN sanctions against Iraq, but a blind eye has been turned toward the trade. The Kurds of Northern Iraq tax the transport of the oil through their territory. Turkey has been accused of cutting back on the trade in order to squeeze the Iraqi Kurds' unity, fearing independence claims from Turkey's own 12 million Kurds...Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan. 01/12/2002...Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Truck drivers bringing Iraqi crude oil to Turkey backed up at the border waiting to enter the country. Much of the oil export is illegal under the UN sanctions against Iraq, but a blind eye has been turned toward the trade. The Kurds of Northern Iraq tax the transport of the oil through their territory. Turkey has been accused of cutting back on the trade in order to squeeze the Iraqi Kurds' unity, fearing independence claims from Turkey's own 12 million Kurds...Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan. 01/12/2002...Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Oil tankers bringing Iraqi crude oil to Turkey backed up at the border waiting to enter the country. Much of the oil export is illegal under the UN sanctions against Iraq, but a blind eye has been turned toward the trade. The Kurds of Northern Iraq tax the transport of the oil through their territory. Turkey has been accused of cutting back on the trade in order to squeeze the Iraqi Kurds' unity, fearing independence claims from Turkey's own 12 million Kurds...Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan. 01/12/2002...Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Truck drivers from Turkey wait to clear their cargo at the Turkish-Iraq border...Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan. 01/12/2002...Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Since his father died last year, Haider al-Zubaidi, 16, worked as a porter carrying packages and loading trucks. It was on one of those trucks, going to the town of al-Kut, that he lost both his legs when the truck was struck by a US cluster bomb. Here, he talks with some of the porters he used to work with in his neighborhood..Baghdad, Iraq. 13 May 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • French customs officers checking trucks bound for England at the port of Calais. Immigrants stow away in trucks and trains in attempts to cross the the English Channel to Britain..Calais, France. 21/06/2000.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A French customs officer checking trucks bound for England at the port of Calais. Immigrants stow away in trucks and trains in attempts to cross the the English Channel to Britain..Calais, France. 21/06/2000.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A French customs officer in the port of Calais finds a Romanian immigrant in the back of a truck bound for the UK. Illegal immigrants stow away on trucks and trains in an attempt to cross the English Channel to Britain where they believe they have the best chance to find work and residence..Calais, France. 21/06/2000..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A French customs officer helps a Romanian immigrant exit a truck bound for the UK where he was discovered in the port of Calais. Illegal immigrants stow away on trucks and trains in an attempt to cross the English Channel to Britain where they believe they have the best chance to find work and residence..Calais, France. 21/06/2000..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A French customs officer in the port of Calais discovers four Romanian immigrants hiding in the back of a truck bound for Britain. Illegal immigrants stow away on trucks and buses in attempts to cross the English Channel to the UK where they believe they have the best chances to find work and receive benefits..Calais, France. 21/06/2000.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • An american convoy of seven trucks transporting armoured vehicles and containers was destroyed by insurgents 40 Kms south of Baghdad..Latifiya, Iraq. 12/04/2004.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • An american convoy of seven trucks transporting armoured vehicles and containers was destroyed by insurgents 40 Kms south of Baghdad..Latifiya, Iraq. 12/04/2004.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • An american convoy of seven trucks transporting armoured vehicles and containers was destroyed by insurgents 40 Kms south of Baghdad..Latifiya, Iraq. 12/04/2004.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • An american convoy of seven trucks transporting armoured vehicles and containers was destroyed by insurgents 40 Kms south of Baghdad..Latifiya, Iraq. 12/04/2004.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • An american convoy of seven trucks transporting armoured vehicles and containers was destroyed by insurgents 40 Kms south of Baghdad.<br />
Latifiya, Iraq. 12/04/2004
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  • Overturned and stuck transport trucks along a road washed out by rains in Central Equatoria province. Decades of civil war have left the infrastructure of South Sudan in ruins..Liggi, South Sudan. 08/10/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Water from the Lumeji River being pumped into tanker trucks that transport the water to the nearby town of Luena. During the country's civil war, the area around the river was heavily mined and the bridge crossing the river destroyed, depriving the town of an important source of drinking water. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the area of mines allowing the reconstruction of the bridge and the community to once again benefit from the river..Lumeji, Moxico Province, Angola. 21/07/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Water from the Lumeji River being pumped into tanker trucks that transport the water to the nearby town of Luena. During the country's civil war, the area around the river was heavily mined and the bridge crossing the river destroyed, depriving the town of an important source of drinking water. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the area of mines allowing the reconstruction of the bridge and the community to once again benefit from the river..Lumeji, Moxico Province, Angola. 21/07/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Water from the Lumeji River being pumped into tanker trucks that transport the water to the nearby town of Luena. During the country's civil war, the area around the river was heavily mined and the bridge crossing the river destroyed, depriving the town of an important source of drinking water. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the area of mines allowing the reconstruction of the bridge and the community to once again benefit from the river..Lumeji, Moxico Province, Angola. 21/07/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Young boys handling hoses that pump water from the Lumeji River into tanker trucks that transport the water to the nearby town of Luena. During the country's civil war, the area around the river was heavily mined and the bridge crossing the river destroyed, depriving the town of an important source of drinking water. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the area of mines allowing the reconstruction of the bridge and the community to once again benefit from the river..Lumeji, Moxico Province, Angola. 21/07/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Young boys handling hoses that pump water from the Lumeji River into tanker trucks that transport the water to the nearby town of Luena. During the country's civil war, the area around the river was heavily mined and the bridge crossing the river destroyed, depriving the town of an important source of drinking water. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the area of mines allowing the reconstruction of the bridge and the community to once again benefit from the river..Lumeji, Moxico Province, Angola. 21/07/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Water from the Lumeji River being pumped into tanker trucks that transport the water to the nearby town of Luena. During the country's civil war, the area around the river was heavily mined and the bridge crossing the river destroyed, depriving the town of an important source of drinking water. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the area of mines allowing the reconstruction of the bridge and the community to once again benefit from the river..Lumeji, Moxico Province, Angola. 21/07/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Truck drivers wait in the port for ferries to take them to Britain. Illegal immigrants wait for drivers to go tol asleep in order to stow away in the back of the truck with the hopes of being driven to Dover..Calais, France. 21/06/2000.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Cotton farmers load their harvest on to a truck for transport to a processing plant..Mousobadougou, Burkina Faso. 13 December 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Haider Faisel Khadem Joad al-Zubaidi at the al-Kadisia hospital in Thora City. He worked as a porter and lost his legs in the first week of the war when a cigarette transportation truck he was working for was struck by a US cluster bomb near the town of al-Kut..Baghdad, Iraq. 05 May 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Cotton farmers load their harvest onto a truck that will transport the cotton to a processing plant..Mousobadougou, Burkina Faso. 13 December 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Cotton is packed into a container that will be picked up by a truck to taken to a Sofitex processing factory..Pad?ma, Burkina Faso. 15 December 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • School children on their way to school in the back of a truck..Morobo, South Sudan. 24/06/2011..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A technical demining team from Mines Advisory Group (MAG) loading a truck with a stockpile of weapons and ammunition recovered by the Angolan police and given to MAG to destroy. The weapons and ammunition will be transported to a site outside of town for a controlled demolition..Luena, Angola. 30/09/2010..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A truck that converts into an open-air class room provides vocational training to people in remote villages in the eastern province of Moxico. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared landmines along the road from the provincial capital Luena to Lumbalagimbo, on the border with Zambia, allowing for the reconstruction of bridges and the repair of the road..Lucusse, Moxico Province, Angola. 23/07/2009..Photo © J.B. Rusell
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  • A man waits for a bus near the burnt remains of a city garbage truck following widespread rioting and violence sparked by the deaths of two youths, Moushin, 15, and Laramy, 16. The two teenagers were killed when the motorcycle they were riding collided with a police car..Villiers-Le-Bel, France. 29/11/2007.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Special narcotics forces (UMOPAR) on a patrol search a truck for drugs on a rural road.  El Chapare, in Bolivia's central lowlands, is the country's principle coca producing region and the heart of the war on drugs.<br />
El Chapare, Bolivia, April 1996.
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  • Haider Faisel Khadem Joad al-Zubaidi at the al-Kadisia hospital in Sadr City. He worked as a porter and lost his legs in the first week of the war when a cigarette transportation truck he was working for was struck by a US cluster bomb near the town of al-Kut. Baghdad, Iraq. 05/05/2003.
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  • An Angolan laborer working for the Chinese company Sinohydro climbing up on a water truck on a bridge over the Luena River in Moxico province. The Chinese government made a multi-billion dollar loan to the Angolan government who is contracting Chinese companies to rebuild the country's infrastructure devastated by decades of civil war..Luena, Angola. 02/10/2010.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A Community Liaison team from Mines Advisory Group (MAG) giving mine risk education and security measures to truck drivers entering South Sudan from Uganda in the customs yard at the border..Kaya, South Sudan. 10/10/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A Community Liaison team from Mines Advisory Group (MAG) giving mine risk education and security measures to truck drivers entering South Sudan from Uganda in the customs yard at the border..Kaya, South Sudan. 10/10/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A man walks past a delivery truck covered with graffiti in the Barbes neighborhood of Paris..Paris, France. 06/04/2009.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Two men cross the street near a delivery truck covered with graffiti in the Barbes neighborhood of Paris..Paris, France. 06/04/2009.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A truck being loaded with cotton for transport to a processing center..Mousobadougou, Burkina Faso. 13 December 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A truck load of cotton is delivered to the Sofitex (recently privatized state cotton company) Bobo III cotton processing factory..Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. 16 December 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A coca farmer with a sac of coca leaves passes a Coca Cola truck on his way to market.  El Chapare, in Bolivia's central lowlands, is the country's principle coca producing region and the heart of the war on drugs.<br />
Villa 14 Septiembre, El Chapare, Bolivia, April 1996.
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  • Special narcotics forces (UMOPAR) on a patrol search a truck on a rural road for drugs.  El Chapare, in Bolivia's central lowlands, is the country's principle coca producing region and the heart of the war on drugs.<br />
El Chapare, Bolivia, April 1996.
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  • Special narcotics forces (UMOPAR) search a truck for drugs along a rural road.  El Chapare, in Bolivia's central lowlands, is the country's principle coca producing region and the heart of the war on drugs.<br />
El Chapare, Bolivia, April 1996.
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  • A coca producer (Cocalero) chews coca leaves next to a Coca Cola truck, which uses the leaf in its formula.  El Chapare, in the central lowlands of Bolivia, is the country's principle coca producing region.<br />
Eterazama, El Chapare, Bolivia, April 1996.
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  • Haneen Mohammed Abdullah, 19 years old, was severely burned on her face, chest and arms when she stepped out of a car to buy ice cream in Baghdad and a truck bomb exploded nearby. She sits in her room in a hotel in Amman where she is receiving medical treatment in a program run by Medécins Sans Frontières (MSF) that treats victims of violence whose injuries can not be treated inside Iraq..Amman, Jordan. 05/12/2011..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Haneen Mohammed Abdullah, 19 years old, was severely burned on her face, chest and arms when she stepped out of a car to buy ice cream in Baghdad and a truck bomb exploded nearby. She sits in her room in a hotel in Amman where she is receiving medical treatment in a program run by Medécins Sans Frontières (MSF) that treats victims of violence whose injuries can not be treated inside Iraq..Amman, Jordan. 05/12/2011..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Haneen Mohammed Abdullah, 19 years old, was severely burned on her face, chest and arms when she stepped out of a car to buy ice cream in Baghdad and a truck bomb exploded nearby. She sits in her room in a hotel in Amman where she is receiving medical treatment in a program run by Medécins Sans Frontières (MSF) that treats victims of violence whose injuries can not be treated inside Iraq..Amman, Jordan. 05/12/2011..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Haneen Mohammed Abdullah, 19 years old, was severely burned on her face, chest and arms when she stepped out of a car to buy ice cream in Baghdad and a truck bomb exploded nearby. She is receiving medical treatment in a program run by Medécins Sans Frontières (MSF) that treats victims of violence whose injuries can not be treated inside Iraq..Amman, Jordan. 02/12/2011..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A technical demining team from Mines Advisory Group (MAG) loading a truck with a stockpile of weapons and ammunition recovered by the Angolan police and given to MAG to destroy. The weapons and ammunition will be transported to a site outside of town for a controlled demolition..Luena, Angola. 30/09/2010..Photo © J.B. Russell
    Angola1009-0550.jpg
  • A Community Liaison team from Mines Advisory Group (MAG) giving mine risk education and security measures to truck drivers entering South Sudan from Uganda in the customs yard at the border..Kaya, South Sudan. 10/10/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
    Sudan0909-2800.jpg
  • A Community Liaison team from Mines Advisory Group (MAG) giving mine risk education and security measures to truck drivers entering South Sudan from Uganda in the customs yard at the border..Kaya, South Sudan. 10/10/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
    Sudan0909-2771.jpg
  • A Community Liaison team from Mines Advisory Group (MAG) giving mine risk education and security measures to truck drivers entering South Sudan from Uganda in the customs yard at the border..Kaya, South Sudan. 10/10/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
    Sudan0909-2767.jpg
  • A Community Liaison team from Mines Advisory Group (MAG) giving mine risk education and security measures to truck drivers entering South Sudan from Uganda in the customs yard at the border..Kaya, South Sudan. 10/10/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
    Sudan0909-2742.jpg
  • A Community Liaison team from Mines Advisory Group (MAG) giving mine risk education and security measures to truck drivers entering South Sudan from Uganda in the customs yard at the border..Kaya, South Sudan. 10/10/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A Community Liaison team from Mines Advisory Group (MAG) preparing to give mine risk education and security measures to truck drivers entering South Sudan from Uganda in the customs yard at the border..Kaya, South Sudan. 10/10/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A man walks past a delivery truck covered in graffiti in the Barbes neighborhood of Paris..Paris, France. 06/04/2009.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Pedestrains walk past a delivery truck covered in graffiti in the La Chapelle neighborhood of Paris..Paris, France. 06/04/2009.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A man loading a delivery truck covered in graffiti in the La Chapelle neighborhood of Paris..Paris, France. 06/04/2009.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • An Austrian border guard checking the back of a truck arriving in the EU from Hungary for illegal immigrants by using a carbon monoxide meter which detects breathing. Thousands of illegal immigrants enter the EU through the Union's newest eastern members..Nickelsdorf, Austria. 14/12/1998.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A truck load of cotton is delivered to the Sofitex (recently privatized state cotton company) Bobo III cotton processing factory..Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. 16 December 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Cotton is packed into a container that will be picked up by a truck and taken to a Sofitex processing factory..Pad?ma, Burkina Faso. 15 December 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Cotton farmers load their harvest onto a truck that will transport the cotton to a Sofitex processing plant..Mousobadougou, Burkina Faso. 13 December 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A cotton worker takes a nap under a truck that will transport the local cotton harvest to a processing plant..Mousobadougou, Burkina Faso. 13 December 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Nadège Tanier, a resident of Villiers-Le-Bel, next to a burned city garbage truck. Widespread rioting and violence erupted following the deaths of two youths, Moushin, 15, and Laramy, 16. The two teenagers were killed when the motorcycle they were riding collided with a police car..Villiers-Le-Bel, France. 29/11/2007.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Children pass the burnt remains of a city garbage truck on their way home from school following widespread rioting and violence sparked by the deaths of two youths, Moushin, 15, and Laramy, 16. The two teenagers were killed when the motorcycle they were riding collided with a police car..Villiers-Le-Bel, France. 29/11/2007.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Children surround a United Nations truck distributing radios in the lead up to the country's first democratic elections..Near Sisophon, Cambodia. April 1993.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A pregnant woman and her child arrive by a government military truck from a UNITA held area. During the Angolan government's decisive offensive against UNITA in the eastern province of Moxico, where rebel leader Jonas Savimbi was eventually killed, the government conducted a scorched earth strategy of displacing the civilian population, many of whom had been fleeing the fighting for months, placing them in rudimentary camps and burning fields and villages to flush out the rebels. This strategy added to the millions of people already displaced by years of war and provoked a serious famine in many parts of the country..Luena, Angola.  07-12-2001.Photo: © J. B. Russell
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  • A Kurdish truck driver from Turkey at a yard with thousands of oil tankers on their way to Iraq to bring Iraqi crude oil back to Turkey. Much of the oil export is illegal under the UN sanctions against Iraq, but a blind eye has been turned toward the trade. The Kurds of Northern Iraq tax the transport of the oil through their territory. Turkey has been accused of cutting back on the trade in order to squeeze the Iraqi Kurds, fearing independance claims from Turkey's own 12 million Kurds.<br />
Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan. 01/12/2002.
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  • A stockpile of 60 mm mortars recovered by the Angolan police and given to MAG to destroy in the back of a truck. The weapons and ammunition will be transported to a site outside of town for a controlled demolition..Luena, Angola. 30/09/2010..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A Community Liaison team from Mines Advisory Group (MAG) giving mine risk education and security measures to truck drivers entering South Sudan from Uganda in the customs yard at the border..Kaya, South Sudan. 10/10/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Mothers bring their children suffering from dehydration and diarrhea. There is no running water or electricity in Umm Qasr. The water trucked in is insufficient for the town, which is suffering health problems as a result. Umm Qasr is the first town in Iraq to be handed back to an interim town council. Elections to select a permanent council will be held shorlty..Umm Qasr, Iraq. 23 May 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Young boys off-load a goat from a pickup truck in a rural village in Gorgol province. Only a few decades ago, the majority of Mauritanians lived a pastoral, nomadic lifestyle. While many remain highly mobile, Mauritanian society has become increasingly sedentary, relying on agriculture as well as livestock breeding for their livelihoods. Failed rainy seasons and prolonged droughts in recent years, widely attributed to global warming and climate change, have made agriculture unsustainable in many parts of the Sahel causing widespread food insecurity. As a result, working age men have been forced to migrate to large cities and abroad in order to seek work, leaving only children, women and the elderly in rural areas to work the fields, tend to livestock and feed their communities.<br />
Djadjibiné Chorfa, Mauritanie. 05/03/2011.
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  • A barrel full of water, trucked in from the river, in an area called 4 de Fevereiro on the outskrits of the provincial capital. The area was heavily contaminated with landmines during the country's long civil war and is the region's largest minefield. Returning refugees and displaced people as well as the government's "Village Reunification Program," a program that encourages people living in remote hamlets to move into larger villages and towns so that the government can provide basic services such as education, health care, electricity and water to the population, has placed enormous pressure on the town to find safe land for people to live and to begin rebuilding their lives. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) is clearing the area of landmines and other remnents of the conflict to allow resettlement, housing and the long-term development of the country..Luena, Angola. 28/10/2010.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Cotton producers pack harvested cotton into bundles to be weighed before being trucked to the processing plant..Padéma, Burkina Faso. 10 December 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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