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  • Displaced people wait in line to receive coupons at a non-food item fair at the Miketo IDP settlement, Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday February 19, 2012. Displaced people who have lost most of their belongings as they fleed their homes receive coupons their can exchange for goods at a fair held in partnership with local traders.
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  • Ramata Ouedraogo waits under a tree while her sheep eat leaves in the village of Weotenga, Plateau-Centre region, Burkina Faso on Wednesday March 28, 2012. In the absence of grass during the dry season, Ramata sometimes uses  a long stick to break branches off trees so that her sheep can eat.
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  • Aminata Sisay, who says she's 15, lies on the operation table after undergoing c-section surgery at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone on Monday April 26, 2010. Aminata waited too long before coming to the hospital, and lost her child, who needed to be removed from her womb through surgery.
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  • Aminata Sisay, who says she's 15, lies on the operation table after undergoing c-section surgery at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone on Monday April 26, 2010. Aminata waited too long before coming to the hospital, and lost her child, who needed to be removed from her womb through surgery.
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  • Dr. Kamson Kamara cleans up Aminata Sisay, who says she's 15, after performing a c-section operation at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone on Monday April 26, 2010. Aminata waited too long before coming to the hospital, and lost her child, who needed to be removed from her womb through surgery.
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  • Dr. Kamson Kamara performs a c-section operation on Aminata Sisay, who says she's 15, at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone on Monday April 26, 2010. Aminata waited too long before coming to the hospital, and lost her child, who needed to be removed from her womb through surgery.
    SLE10.0426.HEALTH0361.JPG
  • An electronic monitor tracks the vital signs of Aminata Sisay, who says she's 15, during a c-section operation at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone on Monday April 26, 2010. Aminata waited too long before coming to the hospital, and lost her child, who needs to be removed from her womb through surgery..
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  • Fishermen stand on their boats while cleaning nets under the towering former slave fort of Cape Coast castle in Cape Coast, roughly 120km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday April 9, 2009. Cape Coast's slave-trading days may be long gone but the town is no stranger to modern exploitation. Pirate fishing vessels and illegally-operating foreign trawlers are raping the seas, stealing the town's biggest commodity - its fish.
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  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, uses a blade mounted on a long stick to cut cocoa pods of a tree on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The tool is used to cut off cocoa pods that grow at various heights and are sometimes unreachable by hand. The pods are then collected by another farm worker and carried out of the plantation to a location where the pods will be cracked.
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  • Aminata Sisay, who says she's 15, lies on a stretcher after undergoing c-section surgery at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone on Monday April 26, 2010. Aminata waited too long before coming to the hospital, and lost her child, who needed to be removed from her womb through surgery.
    SLE10.0426.HEALTH0482.JPG
  • The lifeless child of Aminata Sisay, who says she's 15, lies in a metal bin after it was removed from her womb during a c-section operation at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone on Monday April 26, 2010. Aminata waited too long before coming to the hospital, and lost her child, who needed to be removed from her womb through surgery.
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  • Dr. Kamson Kamara struggles to extirpate the lifeless baby from the womb of Aminata Sisay, who says she's 15, during a c-section operation at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone on Monday April 26, 2010. Aminata waited too long before coming to the hospital, and lost her child, who needs to be removed from her womb through surgery.
    SLE10.0426.HEALTH0320.JPG
  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, uses a blade mounted on a long stick to cut cocoa pods of a tree on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The tool is used to cut off cocoa pods that grow at various heights and are sometimes unreachable by hand. The pods are then collected by another farm worker and carried out of the plantation to a location where the pods will be cracked.
    GHA07.0120.COCOA035.jpg
  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, uses a blade mounted on a long stick to cut cocoa pods of a tree on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The tool is used to harvest cocoa pods that grow at various heights and are sometimes unreachable by hand.
    GHA07.0120.COCOA016.jpg
  • A woman helps young men cover themselves with talcum powder as they prepare for wrestling matches during the yearly evala festival in the town of Houde, northern Togo, on Thursday July 12, 2007. The powder, fighters say, makes it more difficult for their opponent to get a firm grasp.<br />
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During the week-long tourney, young men wrestle against peers from their own and other villages. The evala festival is not only a sporting event, but also part of the rites of passage young men from the KabyŽ ethnic group will complete as they become full-grown men. The fighters, called evalo, will wrestle on three consecutive years to show their strength and their worth as they become full members of the community. <br />
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Wrestlers cover themselves with talcum powder to allegedly make it more difficult for their opponent to get a firm grasp. Rubbing hands with dirt is also a popular technique which many believe helps counter the slippery effect of talcum powder. On the eve of the first day of fighting, the father of each evalo will buy a dog for his son to eat. It is believed that the meat of the animal will endow the young man with the strength and courage characteristic to the animal.<br />
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While the wrestling is reserved to young men in their early to mid-twenties, younger boys also take part in unofficial matches as they prepare to become the next evalo. Even though supporters often become infuriated when their fighter is denied the victory they think he deserves, the outcome of the wrestling matches has little importance. Winners celebrate alongside those who are defeated and more than anything else, the evala festival is a social gathering where KabyŽs come to meet each other. Many KabyŽs in the diaspora even come home to attend the event. <br />
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The first day of fighting pits evalos from two halves of a same village against each other. On the next day, fighters from an entire village wrestle against their peers from a neighbor settlement before joining them and facing together a similar gr
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  • Young men covered with talcum powder (used to make it more difficult for opponents to get a firm grasp) wait for wrestling matches to start during the yearly evala festival in the town of Houde, northern Togo, on Thursday July 12, 2007.<br />
<br />
During the week-long tourney, young men wrestle against peers from their own and other villages. The evala festival is not only a sporting event, but also part of the rites of passage young men from the KabyŽ ethnic group will complete as they become full-grown men. The fighters, called evalo, will wrestle on three consecutive years to show their strength and their worth as they become full members of the community. <br />
<br />
Wrestlers cover themselves with talcum powder to allegedly make it more difficult for their opponent to get a firm grasp. Rubbing hands with dirt is also a popular technique which many believe helps counter the slippery effect of talcum powder. On the eve of the first day of fighting, the father of each evalo will buy a dog for his son to eat. It is believed that the meat of the animal will endow the young man with the strength and courage characteristic to the animal.<br />
<br />
While the wrestling is reserved to young men in their early to mid-twenties, younger boys also take part in unofficial matches as they prepare to become the next evalo. Even though supporters often become infuriated when their fighter is denied the victory they think he deserves, the outcome of the wrestling matches has little importance. Winners celebrate alongside those who are defeated and more than anything else, the evala festival is a social gathering where KabyŽs come to meet each other. Many KabyŽs in the diaspora even come home to attend the event. <br />
<br />
The first day of fighting pits evalos from two halves of a same village against each other. On the next day, fighters from an entire village wrestle against their peers from a neighbor settlement before joining them and facing together a similar group on the third day of the event. After one day
    TGO108.jpg
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