Photo of the Week
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Lesotho’s night before the elections: Photo of the Week/Explainer
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 ... -
Photo of the Week: The shifting sands of Chad
A sandstorm on the banks of the Chari river in Chad. Photograph taken by Arnauld Kara. For more on Chad, see: The Habré trial: ... -
Photo of the Week: Hitching a ride in Liberia
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 ... -
Photo of the Week: Getting your goat in Eritrea
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, ... -
Photo of the Week: Striking a note for peace in Darfur
On 12 April 2017, the United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and Youth Union held a peace festival in the Al Salam camp for ... -
Photo of the Week: Senegal’s Salt Lakes
Seydou is a worker at Lac Rose, the largest salt flat in Senegal and one of the most important in the region. Hundreds of ... -
Photo of the Week: Luanda Sunset
A family walks at sunset along Avenida 4 de Fevereiro, also known as Avenida Marginal, the beautiful waterfront of the Angolan capital. Luanda was ... -
Photo of the Week: The Burundi Coup
On 13 May 2015, General Godefroid Niyombare declared on Burundian radio that President Pierre Nkurunziza had been overthrown. In the preceding weeks, protesters had ...
