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In this file photo taken on November 21, 2014 Guinean Red Cross workers wearing protective suits carry the corpse of a victim of Ebola in Macenta. (Photo: AFP)

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A woman pose for photograph in the city of Gorom-Gorom in Burkina Faso’s northern region near the Niger border on June 13, 2012. (Photo: AFP)

Thousands of women and children flee Burkina Faso massacre

Jun 09,2021 | Africa

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Jun 06,2021 | Africa
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Jun 06,2021 | Africa
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Jun 03,2021 | Africa

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May 31,2021 | Africa
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May 23,2021 | Africa
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May 23,2021 | Africa
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May 23,2021 | Africa
A view of Mogadishu, Somalia, January 2, 2020. Somali leaders began negotiations Saturday aimed at organizing new elections after the postponement of recent polls sparked one of the country’s worst po

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May 23,2021 | Africa
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May 20,2021 | Africa
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May 19,2021 | Africa
Southern Sudanese women, displaced from the contested border town of Abyei by the military offensive, collect food rations in Turalei, southern Sudan, June 1, 2011. (Photo: NYTimes)

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May 18,2021 | Africa
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Ethiopia says fighters, not civilians killed in Tigray massacre

May 11,2021 | Africa
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May 10,2021 | Africa
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May 02,2021 | Africa
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People drive past a Chad army tank near the presidential palace, after Chad’s President Idriss Deby death.

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Apr 25,2021 | Africa
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Apr 23,2021 | Africa