Mbera, Mauritania Refugee camp

Zeinab Mint Hama, 25, with her children Zuber (L), Bon Oumar (2nd L) and Seydna Ali in front of her shelter at Mbera refugee camp in southern Mauritania.

سری لنکا نے پہلی بار عالمی ٹی ٹوئنٹی کرکٹ کپ جیت لیا

Refugee camp officials transport tents on a donkey-driven cart in the Mbera refugee camp, about 40 km (25 miles) from the border with Mali. About half of more than 320,000 Malians who have fled their homes due to the conflict in northern Mali have settled in refugee camps in neighbouring countries.

Kadjiatou Mint Sidi, 50, in front of her makeshift shelter at Mbera refugee camp in southern Mauritania. Sidi fled her hometown of Lerneb, Mali, in the beginning of May and rode a donkey-driven cart for six days to arrive at the camp.

Sisters Aicha (L) and Fatima Hamadi (R) and their brother 10-year-old Omar Ould Hamadi in front of their home at Mbera refugee camp in southern Mauritania. In March, the Hamadi children fled their home in Timbuktu, Mali with their parents.

Aicha Hadiya Wallet Mohamed, a 27-year-old refugee from the town of Farech in northern Mali, teaches children at a school in the Mbera refugee camp.

Malian refugee children attend a school in the Mbera refugee camp.

Timal Bara, 35, and her 5-year-old daughter Ka-Bito Bara near the Mbera refugee camp in southern Mauritania. In March, Bara and her daughter fled their home in Lere, Mali, after hearing gunshots when Tuareg rebels entered the town, and settled just outside the official Mbera camp grounds.

Malian refugee children attend a UNICEF-sponsored school in the Mbera refugee camp.

Mauritanian gendarmes patrol a desert area near the Mbera refugee camp. Mauritania has stepped up security around its borders with Mali due to the ongoing conflict there.