https://www.bencurtis.org/photos daily 1.0 2021-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1481145605882-KNH4QWFGT3UKYBG7P5E5/Iran-05-20090609-ABC119.jpg Home - Mideast Iran Election A supporter of main challenger and reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, not wanting to be photographed, hides her face using a poster of him as she waits in the stands at an election rally at the Heidarnia stadium in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, June 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1481211694866-RI80RBP6OU0CCQP2J6L0/Egypt-01-20110202-ABC114.jpg Home - Mideast Egypt Pro-government demonstrators, below, clash with anti-government demonstrators, above, as an Egyptian Army soldier on the rooftop of the Egyptian Museum observes the scene in Tahrir square, the center of anti-government demonstrations, in Cairo, Egypt Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1481211813498-GH5XA2X3Z8NTH6QNHVQE/SSudan-01-20140102-ABC101.jpg Home - South Sudan Violence One of the few to have a mosquito net, a displaced family who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in Bor by boat across the White Nile, sit under it after waking up in the morning in the town of Awerial, South Sudan Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014. The international Red Cross said Wednesday that the road from Bor to the nearby Awerial area "is lined with thousands of people" waiting for boats so they could cross the Nile River and that the gathering of displaced is "is the largest single identified concentration of displaced people in the country so far". (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1481212030187-GUSFD7QGT6BTQ30M4HBU/Libya-01-20110414-ABC109.jpg Home - Mideast Libya Rebel fighters standing in the back of a pickup truck prepare to make an advance, in the desert on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya Thursday, April 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1481212158348-2PNFIQ3OVHIYOYYNX05V/Iran-01-20090615-ABC116.jpg Home - Mideast Iran Election A demonstrator wears a mask in the party's color of green, due to fears of being identified, as hundreds of thousands of supporters of leading opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who claims there was voting fraud in Friday's election, turn out to protest the result of the election at a mass rally in Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 15, 2009. Writing in Farsi reads "Only Mousavi, Oh Hussein (referring to the 3rd Shiite Imam), Mir Hossein (referring to opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi), and Only Mousavi". (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1481212280172-Y3IZC3I2R9EIJF0G8WDO/Rwanda-01-20140404-ABCX130.jpg Home - Rwanda Genocide Anniversary The skulls and bones of some of those who were slaughtered as they sought refuge inside the church are laid out as a memorial to the thousands who were killed in and around the Catholic church during the 1994 genocide in Ntarama, Rwanda, Friday, April 4, 2014. The country will commemorate on April 7, 2014 the 20th anniversary of the genocide when ethnic Hutu extremists killed neighbors, friends and family during a three-month rampage of violence aimed at ethnic Tutsis and some moderate Hutus, leaving a death toll that Rwanda puts at 1,000,050. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1481212801993-1EI16XHZKGBXQZGKF953/Chad-01-20120419-ABC101.jpg Home - Chad A woman carries her child amidst dusty winds in the desert near Mondo, a village in the Sahel belt of Chad, Thursday, April 19, 2012. UNICEF estimates that 127,000 children under 5 in Chad's Sahel belt will require lifesaving treatment for severe acute malnutrition this year, with an estimated 1 million expected throughout the wider Sahel region of West and Central Africa in the countries of Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Senegal and Mauritania. The organization says the current food and nutrition crisis stems from scarce rainfalls in 2011, which caused poor harvests and livestock production, though the situation in Chad has also been exacerbated by an influx of Chadians returning from Libya as a result of the conflict there. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1481212922942-LVZH6RWZ2E7SLO1F2UHZ/KenElection-01-20080128-ABC105.jpg Home - Kenya Election Violence Kenyan men from the Luo tribe armed with machetes and rocks enforce a makeshift roadblock, searching passing vehicles for Kikuyus trying to flee the town in order to kill them, on the main road to the Ugandan border near the airport in Kisumu, Kenya, Monday, Jan. 28, 2008. In Kisumu on Monday angry young men blocked roads out of the town, set some houses and buses ablaze, and one driver was burned alive in his minibus, according to a witness. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1481213040791-QDQHNKAEQ8UUF3XLEABG/Gaza-01-20090119-ABC102.jpg Home - Mideast Israel Palestinians A relative wails on learning her family member was one of the bodies dug out from rubble in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza strip, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. The bodies of four Hamas fighters from the same family - Bassem, Nashad, Sharif, and Rizek Suboh - were pulled from the rubble in the heavily hit area of Beit Lahiya and later buried in the town cemetery, as Gazans got a first closeup look at the large-scale destruction across their crowded territory. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1481213156642-H60VVATEFWFRS4ZV1VVE/Lebanon-01-20060814-ABC110.jpg Home - LEBANON MIDEAST FIGHTING A chess board and unemptied ashtrays are seen in an abandoned house in the near-deserted and heavily-bombed village of Yaroun in southern Lebanon Monday, Aug. 14, 2006. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1481213256057-LKAK5HMGEXYO1JDP3BEN/Dump-01-20151112-ABC106.jpg Home - Kenya Pope Pollution In this photo taken Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015, Joyce Njeri, 8, walks with a torn sack carrying the plastic bottles she has scavenged, at the garbage dump in the Dandora slum of Nairobi, Kenya. Men, women and children traipse through the murky sludge that weaves through mountains of garbage in Nairobi's notorious Dandora dump, hunting for anything that can be recycled to earn themselves enough for their daily bread - some of the poorest of Kenya's poor and those likely to be on Pope Francis' mind when he makes his first trip to Africa this week and brings his message of environmental stewardship and care for society's most marginal. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1481213340556-FKC71494COKK8IJELG2P/Togo-01-20050426-DKB101.jpg Home - TOGO PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS A Togolese soldier kicks a suspected looter in the head, after forcing him to kneel, as opposition supporters rampaged through the streets erecting burning barricades and clashing with security forces within minutes of Faure Gnassingbe, son of ex-dictator Gnassingbe Eyadema, being declared the winner of the Togolese presidential elections, in the capital Lome, Togo Tuesday, April 26, 2005. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1481213486919-7FQX0HVKFGUAY3ZKL5OK/Liberia-01-20030805-DKB105.jpg Home - LIBERIA0375 Older rebel fighters wrestle the gun from a young fighter reluctant to give it up, over a disciplinary matter, in the rebel-held port area of the Liberian capital Monrovia Tuesday, Aug 5th, 2003. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1481213590065-FM6Z6QQ14MR46R9QB40D/Mandela-07-20130714-ABC102.jpg Home - South Africa Mandela A young member of the Maitibolo Cultural Troupe, who said they came to dance for well-wishers in honor of Nelson Mandela, poses for well-wishers to take his photograph in front of a placard of Mandela, outside the entrance to the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa Sunday, July 14, 2013. South Africa's radio broadcaster Eyewitness News reported on Sunday that former president Thabo Mbeki said on Saturday that he expects Nelson Mandela to soon be discharged from the hospital to recuperate at home. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1481213724438-JKU1TGB4S6O21BHZQ29L/Singles-01-20071104-ABC111.jpg Home - Egypt King Tut's Mummy The sarcophagus of King Tut is placed back in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007. The mummy of the 19-year-old pharaoh, whose life and death has captivated people for nearly a century, was placed in a climate-controlled glass box in the tomb, with only the face and feet showing under the linen covering. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1481214028441-ALSZONWXLOWAXQJ28ONM/DailyLife-01-20090123-ABC103.jpg Home - Mideast Israel Palestinians A Palestinian boy carries rescued cats inside a birdcage, on a stroller on a street in Gaza City in the Gaza strip, Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1481214120714-RY8KJF5RH8LJN9APZTIG/Portraits-01-20130104-ABC101.jpg Home - Central African Republic A youth organizer speaks on his mobile phone while waiting for youths to arrive at a meeting of the National Youth Council to discuss the current crisis and the message that youth want to send to upcoming peace talks in Libreville, at the basketball stadium in the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. President Francois Bozize's government remains under threat by the rebels vowing to overthrow him, despite the presence of around 1,000 troops of a multinational central-african regional force, and a meeting in Libreville, Gabon on Jan. 8 to promote a political solution to the crisis. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1481214360047-F1RNHBM1K04CQXOEYBL8/Nature-01-20130605-ABC101.jpg Home - Kenya Elephant Orphans Two-month-old orphaned baby elephant Ajabu is given a dust-bath in the red earth after being fed milk from a bottle by a keeper, as she is too young to do it herself, at an event to commemorate World Environment Day at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, June 5, 2013. Trust founder Daphne Sheldrick said at the event, which was attended by U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec, that they are seeing an upsurge in orphaned elephants because of the poaching crisis occurring across Africa. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1481215680829-ITJLI1EVZRT1YC2VX32O/Mandela-12-20130628-ABC111.jpg Home - South Africa Mandela A group of wellwishers sing and pray for the health of Nelson Mandela at night outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa Friday, June 28, 2013. As Nelson Mandela remained in critical condition in hospital Friday, a family feud over where the 94-year-old former president should be buried went to the courts, according to South Africa's national broadcaster. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1481212331693-HOR2ILFJQHJB7XHTMLNI/KenProtest-01-20160509-ABC101.jpg Home - Kenya Electoral Commission An opposition supporter standing amidst clouds of tear gas throws a rock towards riot police, during a protest in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Monday, May 9, 2016. Kenyan police have tear-gassed opposition supporters after some pelted police with rocks during a protest demanding the disbandment of the electoral authority over alleged bias and corruption. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1537358437988-7RNDUC68LCBPNXZLTQ52/KenElex2018-01-20170813.jpg Home - Kenya Elections Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga gestures to thousands of supporters gathered in the Mathare slum of Nairobi, Kenya Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017. Odinga on Sunday condemned police killings of rioters during protests after the country's disputed election and is urging supporters to skip work Monday. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1537358808853-U4638PBPRF566Q8HBZ9J/BenCurtis-NS-Zimbabwe-01.jpg Home - Zimbabwe Political Turmoil Women residents walk past their apartment block in the low-income neighborhood of Mbare in Harare, Zimbabwe Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. Zimbabweans faced another day of uncertainty amid quiet talks to resolve the country's turmoil and the likely end of President Robert Mugabe's decades-long rule. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1537361418952-M1CN9RVPTWP5NWIDIZF8/BenCurtis-FStory-Elephants-03.jpg Home - Tanzania Africa Saving Elephants In this photo taken Tuesday, March 20, 2018, a small herd of elephants are seen from an airplane in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania. The battle to save Africa’s elephants appears to be gaining momentum in Mikumi, where killings are declining and some populations are starting to grow again. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1543772965136-2ZR1VO91PATUFY3ID67L/ABC101.jpg Home - Kenya Albino Beauty Pageant A contestant checks her makeup in a mirror as she prepares to perform in the "Mr. & Miss Albinism East Africa" contest, organized by the Albinism Society of Kenya, in Nairobi, Kenya Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. The event aims to promote social inclusion and raise the self-esteem of albinos, who frequently face discrimination and stigma. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1581344624633-7DVIKZOYKMERE3O6GS8F/002.jpg Home - Kenya Africa Locust Outbreak A farmer’s daughter waves her shawl in the air to try to chase away swarms of desert locusts from her crops, in Katitika village, Kitui county, Kenya Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Desert locusts have swarmed into Kenya by the hundreds of millions from Somalia and Ethiopia, countries that haven’t seen such numbers in a quarter-century, destroying farmland and threatening an already vulnerable region. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1634805550961-BKP9HQ2CUM8FA09MZ13O/AP_21147768758738.jpg Home - Ethiopia Tigray Eritreans in Charge A 40-year-old woman who was says she was held captive and repeatedly raped by 15 Eritrean soldiers over a period of a week in a remote village near the Eritrea border, speaks during an interview at a hospital in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on Friday, May 14, 2021. "They talked to each other. Some of them: 'We kill her.' Some of them: 'No, no. Rape is enough for her,'" she recalls. She said one of the soldiers told her: "This season is our season, not your season. This is the time for us." (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1634805451275-3NPV1BNT9930O9QVKPX9/AP_21154674446787.jpg Home - Ethiopia Tigray Caught in the Middle A fighter loyal to the Tigray People's Liberation Front mans a guard post on the outskirts of the town of Hawzen, then-controlled by the group, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on Friday, May 7, 2021. The battle for Hawzen is part of a larger war in Tigray between the Ethiopian government and the Tigrayan rebels that has led to massacres, gang rapes and the flight of more than 2 million of the region’s 6 million people. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582df371c534a5da8febd0a0/1634805384827-QPRADAC3SS3H8J5B2M5O/AP_21161662591361.jpg Home - APTOPIX Ethiopia Tigray Famine Looms An Ethiopian woman argues with others over the allocation of yellow split peas after it was distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on Saturday, May 8, 2021. In war-torn Tigray, more than 350,000 people already face famine, according to the U.N. and other humanitarian groups. It is not just that people are starving; it is that many are being starved, The Associated Press found. 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