Best Photos of 2019

In South Sudan, Rose Asha Sillah, shown with her daughter, helped start a timber company that grew into a 35-employee operation. In Uganda's Bidibidi refugee camp, she launched a women’s center that teaches skills such as embroidery and farming to about 400 women. Without financial institutions, even innovative entrepreneurs struggle, but Sillah thinks it’s worth it. “Will we spend 10 years crying for South Sudan?” she asks. “We need to look forward.”