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Up a tree and eight months pregnant: A woman’s ordeal in the Malawi floods

23 April 2015
Alimanda holds her two-week old daughter in the Marka Camp in Malawi. During the floods, she and her children were rescued from a tree. Six weeks later, she gave birth on her way to a health centre. © UNFPA/Jayne Chisenga
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Safe spaces offer crucial services to women displaced by Malawi’s floods

17 March 2015
Women breastfeed outside a UNFPA-supported safe space at Mpasa camp, in Phalombe, Malawi. The safe space offers counselling and services for survivors of gender-based violence, and also provides recreational and skill-building activities for women and girls. © UNFPA Malawi
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Floods hit hundreds of thousands in Southern Africa; women and girls most vulnerable

29 January 2015
People are evacuated by boats in southern Malawi. © UNDAC
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