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[Abdulkadir Mohamed/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS34765_DSC09192-1777276683.jpg","media_credit":"Abdulkadir Mohamed/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-27T10:57:41","published_at_display":"27 Apr 2026, 10:57 GMT","title":"Habiba Abdi Nishow, 43, sits outside her shelter at Wayamo displacement camp in Baidoa, after a long journey from the Bakool region, hoping to receive humanitarian assistance. She says she has received none. [Abdulkadir Mohamed/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS34770_DSC08912-1777276713.jpg","media_credit":"Abdulkadir Mohamed/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-27T10:57:41","published_at_display":"27 Apr 2026, 10:57 GMT","title":"Shukri Adan Hassan, 23, builds a temporary shelter from branches and tarpaulins at Qaydar-adde displacement camp in Baidoa. [Abdulkadir Mohamed/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS34768_DSC09220-1777276705.jpg","media_credit":"Abdulkadir Mohamed/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-27T10:57:41","published_at_display":"27 Apr 2026, 10:57 GMT","title":"Farhia Isack, 28, prepares a simple broth made from acacia tree branches in Baidoa. Displaced from the Bay region after a prolonged drought wiped out her rainfed farm and livestock, she arrived in the town with her five children and has received no income or humanitarian assistance. [Abdulkadir Mohamed/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS34774_DSC09247-1777276735.jpg","media_credit":"Abdulkadir Mohamed/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-27T10:57:41","published_at_display":"27 Apr 2026, 10:57 GMT","title":"Newly arrived families at Wayamo displacement camp in Baidoa, in Somalia\u2019s Southwest state, construct temporary shelters from plastic sheets, sticks, and scraps of cloth that offer little protection from the intense heat and almost no privacy or safety. [Abdulkadir Mohamed/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS34771_DSC09244-1777276718.jpg","media_credit":"Abdulkadir Mohamed/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-27T10:57:41","published_at_display":"27 Apr 2026, 10:57 GMT","title":"Hassan Adan, 47, stands outside his shelter at Wayamo displacement camp in Baidoa, three months after fleeing the Bakool region when the drought destroyed his pastoral livelihood. Every morning, he wakes before sunrise and walks to the Baidoa meat market - not to buy food, but to collect discarded goat legs from butchers for cooking. [Abdulkadir Mohamed/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS34767_DSC08516-1777276698.jpg","media_credit":"Abdulkadir Mohamed/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-27T10:57:41","published_at_display":"27 Apr 2026, 10:57 GMT","title":"Shamsa Abdiwahab, 27, holds her six-month-old baby at a displacement camp in Dollow, in Somalia\u2019s Gedo region. A mother of seven, she fled her home after the drought destroyed the family\u2019s livelihood and sought refuge at the camp, where they survive on a single meal a day. [Abdulkadir Mohamed/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS34776_DSC09284-1777276741.jpg","media_credit":"Abdulkadir Mohamed/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-27T10:57:41","published_at_display":"27 Apr 2026, 10:57 GMT","title":"Ibrahim Ebdow, 83, sits outside a shelter at Wayamo displacement camp in Baidoa. An elderly man with no children, he fled the Bakool region alongside neighbours after losing more than 40 goats - his entire livelihood - to the drought. 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[KCNA via AFP]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026-04-27T031255Z_553970021_RC2BXKAUW5QS_RTRMADP_3_NORTHKOREA-RUSSIA-MEMORIAL-1777271573.jpg","media_credit":"KCNA via Reuters","published_at":"2026-04-27T09:01:45","published_at_display":"27 Apr 2026, 09:01 GMT","title":"Balloons fly overhead as soldiers stand in position next to memorial stones during the opening ceremony of the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats. [KCNA via Reuters]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026-04-27T031252Z_1936944801_RC2CXKAG81WT_RTRMADP_3_NORTHKOREA-RUSSIA-MEMORIAL-1777271557.jpg","media_credit":"KCNA via Reuters","published_at":"2026-04-27T09:01:45","published_at_display":"27 Apr 2026, 09:01 GMT","title":"Kim, Belousov and Russia's State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin raise a toast during a banquet hosted for the Russian delegation visiting North Korea to attend the opening ceremony. [KCNA via Reuters]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026-04-27T031253Z_1047346962_RC2BXKAL4TXF_RTRMADP_3_NORTHKOREA-RUSSIA-MEMORIAL-1777271560.jpg","media_credit":"KCNA via Reuters","published_at":"2026-04-27T09:01:45","published_at_display":"27 Apr 2026, 09:01 GMT","title":"North Korea \u201cwill as ever fully support the policy of the Russian Federation to defend the national sovereignty, territorial integrity and security interests\u201d, Kim told Belousov, according to the KCNA. [KCNA via Reuters]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026-04-27T031249Z_1151913000_RC2BXKAS3VLD_RTRMADP_3_NORTHKOREA-RUSSIA-MEMORIAL-1777271545.jpg","media_credit":"KCNA via Reuters","published_at":"2026-04-27T09:01:45","published_at_display":"27 Apr 2026, 09:01 GMT","title":"Kim has reaffirmed North Korea's support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, promising to help Moscow achieve victory in its \u201csacred\u201d war, state media reported on Monday. [KCNA via Reuters]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026-04-27T031254Z_1086292813_RC2BXKA9A7NX_RTRMADP_3_NORTHKOREA-RUSSIA-MEMORIAL-1777271568.jpg","media_credit":"KCNA via Reuters","published_at":"2026-04-27T09:01:45","published_at_display":"27 Apr 2026, 09:01 GMT","title":"In a speech, Kim paid tribute to their \u201cunrivalled bravery, mass heroism, indomitable fighting spirit and noble sacrifice\u201d, KCNA said. [KCNA via Reuters]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026-04-27T031252Z_456089055_RC2BXKAK910I_RTRMADP_3_NORTHKOREA-RUSSIA-MEMORIAL-1777271554.jpg","media_credit":"KCNA via Reuters","published_at":"2026-04-27T09:01:45","published_at_display":"27 Apr 2026, 09:01 GMT","title":"Kim expressed belief that the \u201cRussian army and people would surely win a victory in the just sacred war\u201d, KCNA reported. [KCNA via Reuters]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026-04-27T031254Z_227235149_RC2BXKA800W3_RTRMADP_3_NORTHKOREA-RUSSIA-MEMORIAL-1777271564.jpg","media_credit":"KCNA via Reuters","published_at":"2026-04-27T09:01:45","published_at_display":"27 Apr 2026, 09:01 GMT","title":"He took part in a ceremony to bury the victims of war, recalling their \u201clast heroic moments\u201d and covering the remains of a soldier with earth. [KCNA via Reuters]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026-04-27T031246Z_793732730_RC2BXKAZ0LPH_RTRMADP_3_NORTHKOREA-RUSSIA-MEMORIAL-1777271537.jpg","media_credit":"KCNA via Reuters","published_at":"2026-04-27T09:01:45","published_at_display":"27 Apr 2026, 09:01 GMT","title":"Kim joins Belousov as he inaugurates the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at the Overseas Military Operations, honouring North Korean troops killed while fighting for Russia in the war against Ukraine, in Pyongyang, North Korea. [KCNA via Reuters]"}],"sequence_kind":"gallery","source_name":"aljazeera_gallery","source_name_label":"Al Jazeera Gallery","source_type":"section","summary":"Russia and North Korea deepen ties with plans for military cooperation and a symbolic memorial museum in Pyongyang.","title":"Photos: North Korea opens museum for troops killed fighting for Russia","topic":"gallery","translation_language":"","url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026/4/27/north-korea-opens-museum-for-troops-killed-fighting-for-russia","video_url":null},{"author":"Al Jazeera","downloadable_assets":[],"embed_url":null,"id":3570,"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260426__A8Z33KW__v1__HighRes__ColombiaCrimeAttackExplosion-1777230862.jpg","item_type":"gallery","item_type_label":"Gallery","media_credit":"Al Jazeera","micro_label":"Photo gallery","micro_label_kind":"gallery","published_at":"2026-04-26T20:15:29","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 20:15 GMT","sequence_badge_label":"Gallery","sequence_count":9,"sequence_count_label":"9 photos","sequence_frames":[{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260426__A8Z33KW__v1__HighRes__ColombiaCrimeAttackExplosion-1777230862.jpg","media_credit":"Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP","published_at":"2026-04-26T20:15:29","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 20:15 GMT","title":"The highway bomb attack in Colombia's southwestern Cauca department killed 19 people and injured at least 38. [Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260425__A8YR8CV__v1__HighRes__ColombiaCrimeAttackExplosion-1777230855.jpg","media_credit":"Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP","published_at":"2026-04-26T20:15:29","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 20:15 GMT","title":"People stand next to victims covered with white sheets at the site of the blast. [Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260425__A8YV3CZ__v1__HighRes__ColombiaCrimeAttackExplosion-1777230848.jpg","media_credit":"Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP","published_at":"2026-04-26T20:15:29","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 20:15 GMT","title":"The attack comes just over one month ahead of national elections, in which voters will pick a successor to President Gustavo Petro. [Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260425__A8YR8CF__v1__HighRes__ColombiaCrimeAttackExplosion-1777230840.jpg","media_credit":"Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP","published_at":"2026-04-26T20:15:29","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 20:15 GMT","title":"Red Cross workers carry an injured person. [Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260425__A8YR8BZ__v1__HighRes__ColombiaCrimeAttackExplosion-1777230832.jpg","media_credit":"Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP","published_at":"2026-04-26T20:15:29","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 20:15 GMT","title":"President Gustavo Petro blamed the bombing on Ivan Mordisco, the South American country's most-wanted criminal, whom the president has compared to late cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar. [Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260426__A8Z33L2__v1__HighRes__ColombiaCrimeAttackExplosion-1777230823.jpg","media_credit":"Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP","published_at":"2026-04-26T20:15:29","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 20:15 GMT","title":"The violence came after a bomb attack on Friday on a military base in Cali, Colombia's third-largest city, injured two people. [Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260425__A8YR8CB__v1__HighRes__ColombiaCrimeAttackExplosion-1777230796.jpg","media_credit":"Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP","published_at":"2026-04-26T20:15:29","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 20:15 GMT","title":"Military chief Hugo Lopez said on Saturday that 26 attacks have been recorded in Valle del Cauca and Cauca departments over the last two days. [Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260425__A8YR8BW__v1__HighRes__ColombiaCrimeAttackExplosion-1777230818.jpg","media_credit":"Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP","published_at":"2026-04-26T20:15:29","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 20:15 GMT","title":"Security is one of the central issues of the May 31 presidential election. [Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260425__A8YR8BJ__v1__HighRes__ColombiaCrimeAttackExplosion-1777230803.jpg","media_credit":"Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP","published_at":"2026-04-26T20:15:29","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 20:15 GMT","title":"Authorities have boosted military and police presence in the areas, Defence Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Saturday. 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He suffered from headaches for the rest of his life. Returning now, he stopped at Pripyat, the nearby city for Chornobyl's workers, which has been abandoned since the accident. \\\"It's heartbreaking to see Pripyat now,\\\" he said. \\\"I remember those houses when they were full of life, and now everything is overgrown and in ruins. It was such a beautiful city.\\\" [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26113372052186-1777188568.jpg","media_credit":"Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-26T08:52:51","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Stanislav Tolumnyi, 65, left, and Mykola Chudak, 66, walk with fellow workers who helped clean up contamination from the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear disaster, in the nearby abandoned town of Prypiat. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26113372102480-1777188703.jpg","media_credit":"Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-26T08:52:51","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Bumper cars sit idle at an overgrown amusement park in Pripyat, Ukraine, a town abandoned following the nearby 1986 Chornobyl nuclear disaster. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26113371740823-1777188459.jpg","media_credit":"Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-26T08:52:51","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Anatolii Prylipko, 66, first arrived nine days after the accident and drove a fire truck for a month, working two-hour shifts to limit his exposure. He initially was unaware of the risks but suffered a health crisis in 1990 and could not work for a year. Returning now for the first time since that deployment, he found the landscape disorienting, with villages erased and the reactor sealed under protective layers. \\\"Back then, the whole place was packed: machinery, helicopters, they were everywhere,\\\" he said. \\\"The road to Kyiv was so crowded you couldn't pass anyone.\\\" [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26113371781094-1777188488.jpg","media_credit":"Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-26T08:52:51","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Volodymyr Vechirko, 62, one of the workers who helped decontaminate the area around the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant after the 1986 accident, rides in a bus with fellow workers for a visit to the region before the 40th anniversary of the disaster in Chornobyl, Ukraine. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26113371761706-1777188474.jpg","media_credit":"Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-26T08:52:51","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"In summer 1986, Anatolii Krutik, 63, was deployed as part of an army battalion to fence off contaminated territory and designate \\\"exclusion zones\\\". He first went to villages in what is now Belarus, which also received heavy radioactive fallout, before he headed to Chornobyl to clean areas around the remaining reactors that were still running. At the time, he said, there was little sense of fear. \\\"No one really thought about it. We didn't know what it was, this invisible enemy,\\\" he said, adding his comrades saw it simply as their duty after being mobilised. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26113371764438-1777188696.jpg","media_credit":"Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-26T08:52:51","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Paintings of deer decorate a wall in the abandoned town of Prypiat, Ukraine, near the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26113372026963-1777188645.jpg","media_credit":"Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-26T08:52:51","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Viktor Hluhovtsov, 66, was sent to Ukraine and Belarus, where large areas had to be fenced off due to radiation in the soil and abandoned buildings. With dark humour, he jokes about his many illnesses. \\\"As my wife says, I have a whole bouquet of ailments,\\\" he says. After being hospitalised for weeks this year, he recovered and said he hopes to see Ukraine push back the Russian invasion. \\\"The doctors didn't know what to do with me, but thank God I survived,\\\" he said. \\\"Now I just hope to live long enough to see the end of this war - long enough to see victory.\\\" [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26113372020488-1777188699.jpg","media_credit":"Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-26T08:52:51","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Volodymyr Vechirko, 62, was sent to Chornobyl in summer 1986 to clear away topsoil, clean buildings and make the other still-functioning reactors on the site safe. He has been ill for much of his life, which he attributes to working at the disaster site, including chronic dizziness, weakness and frequent pain. Because of his poor health, he said, he lost touch with colleagues from that time. \\\"Being back here now, the emotions are overwhelming,\\\" he said. \\\"It's incredibly sad to compare what this place was to what it is now.\\\" [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26113372138829-1777188617.jpg","media_credit":"Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-26T08:52:51","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"In 1989, Anatolii Taranenko, 62, was a security officer, guarding facilities and abandoned homes. Deployments were short due to radiation, and orders were followed without question. He has returned several times since, despite the grief that accompanies each visit. \\\"Back then, that was just how it was: If you were needed, you went,\\\" he said. He said he is still being treated for health problems at a veterans' hospital in Poltava and does his best to stay fit. \\\"We are military people - once a soldier, always a soldier. That's how I live my life. You have to hold yourself together,\\\" he said. \\\"You can't just give up.\\\" [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26113372130988-1777188593.jpg","media_credit":"Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-26T08:52:51","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Serhii Buriak, 60, served in a special Interior Ministry unit in 1988, patrolling Pripyat and nearby areas to guard against looting. His duties included securing abandoned buildings. He said his return visit reconnected him with the sense of duty he felt, while many liquidators still struggle for recognition. \\\"Returning here after 40 years is a massive adrenaline rush for me. It brings back so many memories of my youth and what life was like during those times,\\\" he said. \\\"It was important for me to come back to remember those years and to show my son where I fulfilled my duty to my country.\\\" [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26113372131820-1777188707.jpg","media_credit":"Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-26T08:52:51","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Workers who were sent to clean up contamination from the 1986 Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident pass through a radiation inspection point at the plant in Chornobyl, Ukraine. 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