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Here, the works of selected photojournalists all tell a story that not many people in the world have ever known or seen, thereby sending general messages about peace and environmental protection. Let's take a look at some of the impressive works displayed at this year's festival.
Every week, more than a hundred vehicles carry young men from Nigeria and other West African countries across the vast Ténéré desert to Libya, facing numerous dangers along the way. (Photo: The Sahel In Danger - A Time Bomb - Pascal Maitre)
At night, dealers – who have already purchased animals at the livestock market – take camels, sheep and goats to the slaughterhouse in Agadez. Their meat is then delivered to butchers in the city. (Photo: The Sahel In Danger - A Time Bomb - Pascal Maitre)
Indian families rest in a ward reserved for women recovering from caesarean sections at Tezpur Hospital. Assam has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in India. Many public health facilities are overcrowded and unhygienic, suffer from a lack of senior doctors and often have patients lying on floors and in corridors. (Photo: Maternal Mortality - Lynsey Addario)
Migrants from Honduras heading to the United States stop at a basketball court in San Pedro Tapanatepec, Oaxaca state, southern Mexico, October 2018. A week earlier, Mexico announced that Central American migrants staying in two southern states would receive health care, education for their children and access to temporary jobs. (Photo: Guillermo Arias)
A five-man cell at Poggioreale Prison in Naples. The poorly maintained prison is one of the oldest and most overcrowded in Italy, with 2,000 inmates. (Photo: Valerio Bispuri)
The photo was taken at the Donnelly Training Area near Fort Greely, the US Army's anti-ballistic missile launch site, just below the Arctic Circle. Here, 400 paratroopers are undergoing cold-weather training. (Photo: Louie Palu)
A polar bear with trainer Yulia Denisenko in Kazan, Russia. The Polar Bear Circus is believed to be the only circus in the world that features polar bears. The entire show is performed on ice and the bears are muzzled. (Photo: The Dark Side Of Wildlife Tourism - Kirsten Luce)
Giant storks scavenge for fish scraps from the trash left by previous fishmongers. Lake Victoria, the world’s second largest freshwater lake, is in dire straits. In 2018, the Governor of Kisumu County in Kenya said that if drastic action was not taken, the lake would be destroyed by human-caused pollution within 50 years. (Photo: Lake Victoria, Slowly Dying - Frédéric Noy)
A man washes plastic bags in a landfill in a wetland where blue dye from the plastic has seeped into the lake water in Uganda. (Photo: Frédéric Noy)
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