One of the centres for internally displaced people in the city of Aksum, northern Ethiopia, houses a large number of orphans under the age of 13. Pictured here with Shewit Gebrewahd, 25, who takes care of them, is Merhawit Nuguse, 12, Haymaot Gebrewhad, 13, Liyunesh Khsay, 12, Natnael Atalay, 12, Robel Getachew, nine, and Adyam, five. Some of the children’s parents died during the war; others are in Sudan but, owing to the armed conflict, the children do not know if they are still alive. Every day the orphans go out alone to beg in the city as a means to survive
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