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    Lesotho’s night before the elections: Photo of the Week/Explainer

    By James Wan
    June 2, 2017
    Lesotho, the mountainous kingdom surrounded by South Africa, heads to the polls on Saturday 3 June. It will vote in a snap general election called ...
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    Photo of the Week: The shifting sands of Chad

    By Arnaud Kara
    May 26, 2017
    A sandstorm on the banks of the Chari river in Chad. Photograph taken by Arnauld Kara. For more on Chad, see: The Habré trial: ...
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    Photo of the Week: Hitching a ride in Liberia

    By Together Liberia
    May 19, 2017
    On the road to Liberia‘s capital Monrovia, a boy wearing a pink motorcycle helmet scrambles to get on a truck as it pulls back onto the ...
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    Photo of the Week: Getting your goat in Eritrea

    By Andrea Moroni
    May 12, 2017
    In Eritrea’s second largest city of Keren, the picturesque regional capital surrounded by granitic mountains, cattle is traded in the market. For more on Eritrea, ...
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    Photo of the WeekSudan

    Photo of the Week: Striking a note for peace in Darfur

    By Amin Ismail
    May 5, 2017
    On 12 April 2017, the United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and Youth Union held a peace festival in the Al Salam camp for ...
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  • Photo of the WeekSenegal

    Photo of the Week: Senegal’s Salt Lakes

    By Sebastian Gil Miranda
    April 28, 2017
    Seydou is a worker at Lac Rose, the largest salt flat in Senegal and one of the most important in the region. Hundreds of ...
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    Photo of the Week: Luanda Sunset

    By Nicola Sacco
    April 21, 2017
    A family walks at sunset along Avenida 4 de Fevereiro, also known as Avenida Marginal, the beautiful waterfront of the Angolan capital. Luanda was ...
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    Photo of the Week: The Burundi Coup

    By Igor Rugwiza
    April 10, 2017
    On 13 May 2015, General Godefroid Niyombare declared on Burundian radio that President Pierre Nkurunziza had been overthrown. In the preceding weeks, protesters had ...
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