Women in South Kivu celebrate the first successful share-out of their village savings group. Groups like this one organize weekly meetings, where women save in the form of buying shares.

Syrian women await a distribution of aid in the northern Jordanian city of Ramtha. Women and girls fleeing Syria say they have been directly targeted in the ongoing conflict.

Syrian refugees walk with their belongings on the Lebanese side of the border with Syria. A recent upsurge in violence in Syria prompted tens of thousands of Syrians to flee in just two days. 

A nine-year-old girl is making sorghum porridge for her family outside the school where they found shelter. It is estimated that more than 200,000 people in North Kivu have been driven from their homes by violence since April.