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  • Shea butter in a large barrel at "La Maison du Karité" shea processing center in Siby, near Bamako, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • Shea products in the stock room at "La Maison du Karité" shea processing center in Siby, near Bamako, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • Finished shea butter soap at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • Finished shea butter soap at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • Gate of the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • Habsita Moussa, 30, (in blue) stands with other women as they watch while CELIAF president Maimouna Moussa demonstrates how to prepare a nutritional porridge for children from local ingredients during a training session in Mongo, Guera province, Chad on Wednesday October 17, 2012. Local NGO CELIAF is trained by UNICEF to in turn provide women with trainings on nutrition and health issues.
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  • Fishermen clean their nets after returning from sea in Cape Coast, roughly 120km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday April 9, 2009. "Local jobs are collapsing" says the Ministry of Fisheries' Isiah Amoukouandoh. "It's a difficult balance for the government because foreign trawlers contribute to government funds. If the trawlers stuck to regulations, there would be less of a problem. But they are fishing in the waters reserved for the local fishermen, stealing their fish."
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  • Beads worn by members of a local shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Beads worn by members of a local shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Young girls from the Krobo tribal group walk to a local shrine during the puberty rites - locally called dipo - held in Somanya, Eastern Region, Ghana.
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  • Young girls from the Krobo tribal group line up as they prepare to walk to a local shrine during the puberty rites - locally called dipo - held in Somanya, Eastern Region, Ghana.
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  • Young girls from the Krobo tribal group eat boiled yam and tomato sauce, a traditional local dish, as they undergo puberty rites - locally called dipo - in Somanya, Eastern Region, Ghana.
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  • Young girls from the Krobo tribal group line up as they prepare to walk to a local shrine during the puberty rites - locally called dipo - held in Somanya, Eastern Region, Ghana.
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  • Young girls from the Krobo tribal group line up as they prepare to walk to a local shrine during the puberty rites - locally called dipo - held in Somanya, Eastern Region, Ghana.
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  • Young girls from the Krobo tribal group walk to a local shrine during the puberty rites - locally called dipo - held in Somanya, Eastern Region, Ghana.
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  • Young girls from the Krobo tribal group line up as they prepare to walk to a local shrine during the puberty rites - locally called dipo - held in Somanya, Eastern Region, Ghana.
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  • A woman makes pupusas, a local snack, outside a restaurant in the town of Valle de Angeles, Honduras on Friday April 26, 2013.
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  • Two men sit on the steps of the local market in the town of Valle de Angeles, Honduras on Friday April 26, 2013.
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  • Health worker Rigoberto Martinez hands medicine to treat Leichmaniasis to local health volunteer Nosmara Mendez at her home in Coyolito, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013. The medicine is intended for a patient who lives in the area.
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  • Health worker Rigoberto Martinez hands medicine to treat Leichmaniasis to local health volunteer Nosmara Mendez at her home in Coyolito, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013. The medicine is intended for a patient who lives in the area.
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  • Children sit at the counter of a local cafe in the village of Popoko, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire on Tuesday March 6, 2012.
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  • Maria Mchele holds freshly-harvested sweet potatoes on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009..
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  • Maria Mchele holds freshly-harvested sweet potatoes on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009..
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  • Maria Mchele (R) and Theresa Mathias (L) harvest sweet potatoes on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009..
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  • Sweet potato farmers Mwanaidi Ramadhani (L) and Maria Mchele (R) work on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009.
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  • Sweet potato farmer Mwanaidi Ramadhani and fellow farmers walk through a field as they head to a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009.
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  • Satta Fahnbulleh, 17, interviews a woman while Karn B. Sherman, 17, takes notes as they work on producing a UNICEF-sponsored youth radio program that will air on a local radio station in the town of Sinje, Grand Cape Mount county, Liberia on Friday April 6, 2012. The program is entirely run by teenagers, and discusses various issues related to children's rights, health, education, etc.
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  • Satta Fahnbulleh, 17, interviews a woman while Karn B. Sherman, 17, takes notes as they work on producing a UNICEF-sponsored youth radio program that will air on a local radio station in the town of Sinje, Grand Cape Mount county, Liberia on Friday April 6, 2012. The program is entirely run by teenagers, and discusses various issues related to children's rights, health, education, etc.
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  • A staff from a local bank holds a handfull of money during a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme distribution in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Beneficiary households receive monthly transfers that vary according to the size of the household, with additional sums provided for each child enrolled in school. Families are selected for participation in the programme based on two key criteria: they must be both extremely poor and labour-constrained.
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  • A staff member from a local bank counts money during a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme distribution in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Beneficiary households receive monthly transfers that vary according to the size of the household, with additional sums provided for each child enrolled in school. Families are selected for participation in the programme based on two key criteria: they must be both extremely poor and labour-constrained.
    LBR12.0403.NUT0036.JPG
  • A woman shops for plastic containers during a non-food item fair in 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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  • A girl holding a UNHCR issued card waits in line to receive coupons during 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.
    COD12.0219.FARROW0583.JPG
  • A man and teenage girl play a local game called awale (owari) outside their home in the village of Ligaleu, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday May 4, 2011.
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  • A woman cooks for her family outside the tent where they now live after their home was destroyed by floods in the village of Kpoto, Benin on Tuesday October 26, 2010. Waters have receded in Kpoto, but most of the village was literally flattened by floods that have hit Benin over the past few weeks. Almost all of the village's 1500 people have moved to a location near the local church, located about 500 meters away, where they now live in basic shelters.
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  • A woman holds her child in a spontaneous settlement where they now live after their home was destroyed by floods in the village of Kpoto, Benin on Tuesday October 26, 2010. Waters have receded in Kpoto, but most of the village was literally flattened by floods that have hit Benin over the past few weeks. Almost all of the village's 1500 people have moved to a location near the local church, located about 500 meters away, where they now live in basic shelters.
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  • Children in a spontaneous settlement near the village of Kpoto, Benin on Tuesday October 26, 2010. About 1500 people have settled here after their village was almost entirely destroyed by floods that have hit Benin over the past few weeks. Almost all of the village's 1500 people have moved to a location near the local church, located about 500 meters away, where they now live in basic shelters.
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  • A child sits on the ground in a spontaneous settlement near the village of Kpoto, Benin on Tuesday October 26, 2010. About 1500 people have settled here after their village was almost entirely destroyed by floods that have hit Benin over the past few weeks. Almost all of the village's 1500 people have moved to a location near the local church, located about 500 meters away, where they now live in basic shelters.
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  • A woman and her children stand in front of the tent where they now live after their home was destroyed by floods in the village of Kpoto, Benin on Tuesday October 26, 2010. Waters have receded in Kpoto, but most of the village was literally flattened by floods that have hit Benin over the past few weeks. Almost all of the village's 1500 people have moved to a location near the local church, located about 500 meters away, where they now live in basic shelters.
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  • Group of tourists and local guide resting while hiking down Pico Fogo, Fogo Island, Cape Verde, West Africa.
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  • UNICEF staff and local health officials look at a vaccination micro-plan at the health district directorate in Salaga, northern Ghana on Thursday March 26, 2009.
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  • UNICEF staff and local health officials look at a map from a vaccination micro-plan at the health district directorate in Salaga, northern Ghana on Thursday March 26, 2009.
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  • People wait outside the James Town Mantse Palace, the home of a local traditional chief, during presidential elections in Accra, Ghana on Sunday December 28, 2008.
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  • A woman and her child prepare attieke, a local staple made of cassava, in Tano Akakro, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday June 20, 2009.
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  • A woman and her child prepare attieke, a local staple made of cassava, in Tano Akakro, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday June 20, 2009.
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  • Customers of a local bar take photos of the production crew in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Fish is laid out for sale at the market in Elmina, about 130km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday April 9, 2009. In Ghana, women are usually responsible for selling the fish caught by their husbands. Some local fishermen complain that the recent reduction in fish populations is not only making it more difficult for them to support their family, but also often a cause of tension and conflict between husband and wife.
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  • Fishermen pull in their catch into their small wooden boat a few hundred meters away from shore near Cape Coast, roughly 120km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday April 9, 2009. Unlike traditional fishing boats, industrial trawlers are required by law to operate in waters deeper than 30 meters. However, local fishermen frequently report that foreign vessels come much closer to the coast, often destroying their nets and causing important damage to the ocean floor by dragging their nets to maximize their catch.
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  • A local chief and a young girl sit in a palanquin carried by followers during the parade held on the occasion of the annual Oguaa Fetu Afahye Festival in Cape Coast, Ghana on Saturday September 6, 2008.
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  • Women chanting during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • A priestess possessed by spirits chants over past and current shrine servants during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Current and past shrine servants bound with rope during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Shrine servant possessed by spirits during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Head priest about to sacrifice a chicken during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Shrine servant kneeling during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Offering of gin made during "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • A woman makes pupusas, a local snack, outside a restaurant in the town of Valle de Angeles, Honduras on Friday April 26, 2013.
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  • Health worker Rigoberto Martinez hands medicine to treat Leichmaniasis to local health volunteer Nosmara Mendez at her home in Coyolito, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013. The medicine is intended for a patient who lives in the area.
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  • Health worker Rigoberto Martinez hands medicine to treat Leichmaniasis to local health volunteer Nosmara Mendez at her home in Coyolito, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013. The medicine is intended for a patient who lives in the area.
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  • Health worker Rigoberto Martinez hands medicine to treat Leichmaniasis to local health volunteer Nosmara Mendez at her home in Coyolito, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013. The medicine is intended for a patient who lives in the area.
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  • Health worker Rigoberto Martinez hands medicine to treat Leichmaniasis to local health volunteer Nosmara Mendez at her home in Coyolito, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013. The medicine is intended for a patient who lives in the area.
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  • Health worker Rigoberto Martinez hands medicine to treat Leichmaniasis to local health volunteer Nosmara Mendez at her home in Coyolito, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013. The medicine is intended for a patient who lives in the area.
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  • Health worker Rigoberto Martinez hands medicine to treat Leichmaniasis to local health volunteer Nosmara Mendez at her home in Coyolito, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013. The medicine is intended for a patient who lives in the area.
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  • Health worker Rigoberto Martinez hands medicine to treat Leichmaniasis to local health volunteer Nosmara Mendez at her home in Coyolito, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013. The medicine is intended for a patient who lives in the area.
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  • Health worker Rigoberto Martinez hands medicine to treat Leichmaniasis to local health volunteer Nosmara Mendez at her home in Coyolito, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013. The medicine is intended for a patient who lives in the area.
    HND13.0425.SABIN627.JPG
  • Maria Mchele holds freshly-harvested sweet potatoes on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009..
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  • Mwanaidi Ramadhani (C) and Theresa Mathias (L) harvest sweet potatoes on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009..
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  • A woman harvests sweet potatoes on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009..
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  • Women harvest sweet potatoes on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009..
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  • Sweet potato farmers work on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009..
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  • Sweet potato farmers Mwanaidi Ramadhani (L) and Maria Mchele (R) transplant sweet potato plantlets on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009.
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  • Sweet potato farmers Mwanaidi Ramadhani (L) and Maria Mchele (R) transplant sweet potato plantlets on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009.
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  • Habsita Moussa, 30, stirs nutritional porridge she and other women are learning to prepare during a training session in Mongo, Guera province, Chad on Wednesday October 17, 2012. Local NGO CELIAF is trained by UNICEF to in turn provide women with trainings on nutrition and health issues.
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  • A staff member from a local bank counts money during a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme distribution in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Beneficiary households receive monthly transfers that vary according to the size of the household, with additional sums provided for each child enrolled in school. Families are selected for participation in the programme based on two key criteria: they must be both extremely poor and labour-constrained.
    LBR12.0403.NUT0100.JPG
  • A woman carries a suitcase she purchased at a non-food item fair in 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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  • A woman with a mattress and a suitcase she bought during 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.
    COD12.0219.FARROW0618.JPG
  • 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.
    COD12.0219.FARROW0606.JPG
  • Displaced people wait in line to receive coupons during 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.
    COD12.0219.FARROW0593.JPG
  • A woman holds a sheet of coupons she's received during 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.
    COD12.0219.FARROW0554.JPG
  • A man and teenage girl play a local game called awale (owari) outside their home in the village of Ligaleu, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday May 4, 2011.
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  • Tents where villagers have been displaced by floods near the village of Kpoto, Benin on Tuesday October 26, 2010. Waters have receded in Kpoto, but most of the village was literally flattened by floods that have hit Benin over the past few weeks. Almost all of the village's 1500 people have moved to a location near the local church, located about 500 meters away, where they now live in basic shelters.
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  • A young child sleeps in a tent set up in a spontaneous settlement near the village of Kpoto, Benin on Tuesday October 26, 2010. Almost all of the village's 1500 people have moved to a location near the local church, located about 500 meters away, where they now live in basic shelters. Some tents were donated by the Benin government, but they aren't waterproof and don't provide adequate shelter with the rainy season still going strong.
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  • A boy sits on a bench in a spontaneous settlement near the village of Kpoto, Benin on Tuesday October 26, 2010. Almost all of the village's 1500 people have moved to a location near the local church, located about 500 meters away, where they now live in basic shelters.
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  • UNICEF staff and local health officials look at results from ongoing vaccination during a national polio immunization exercise in the village of Wantugu, northern Ghana on Friday March 27, 2009..
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  • Local transportation awaits passengers at a ferry terminal on the shore of Lake Volta in Makango, northern Ghana on Thursday March 26, 2009.
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  • A local imam speaks to mosque attendees about an upcoming national polio immunization exercise after evening prayers at a mosque in Tamale, Ghana on Tuesday March 24, 2009.
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  • Traditional healer Kama Mbagnick holds a handful of wooden chips from a local tree used for its healing properties as he explains their usage to patient Ndeye Sarr (left) at the traditional medicine center in Fatick, Senegal on August 6, 2009. Sarr was visiting the center because of skin problems she said doctors elsewhere were unable to help resolve.
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  • Traditional healer Kama Mbagnick holds a handful of wooden chips from a local tree used for its healing properties at the traditional medicine center in Fatick, Senegal on August 6, 2009. The center mixes modern medicine techniques with African medicine provided by traditional healers.
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  • A woman and her child prepare attieke, a local staple made of cassava, in Tano Akakro, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday June 20, 2009.
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  • A woman prepares attieke, a local staple made of cassava, in Tano Akakro, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday June 20, 2009.
    CIV09.0620.GATES0108.jpg
  • Women sell fish at the market in Elmina, about 130km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday April 9, 2009. Ghanaian women are usually responsible for selling the fish caught by their husbands. Some local fishermen complain that the recent reduction in the amount of fish they catch is not only making it more difficult for them to support their family, but can also be a cause of tension and conflict between husband and wife..
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  • Fish and crustaceans lay in a bucket after being brought back from sea by fishermen in Cape Coast roughly 120km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday April 9, 2009. Local fishermen say that the volume of fish has severely dwindled in recent years with the increased presence of international fishing vessels in Ghanaian waters.
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  • Women grind cassava to make gari - a local staple - in the village of Alandohou, Benin on Monday September 10, 2007. The women are part of a unicef-sponsored micro-credit programme that helps them make income to send their children to school.
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  • Former MLB player Tony Torchia (second from left) discusses with a local coach before an exhibition baseball game in the city of Tema, roughly 35 km east of Ghana's capital Accra on Saturday February 3, 2007. The game was being held on the occasion of the visit of a delegation from the American Major League Baseball Association made possible by the African Development Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports little league projects in selected African countries.
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  • Head priest spitting gin on shrine servant to purify her during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Current and past shrine servants have their wrists bound with rope during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Current and past shrine servants being beaten to purify their sins during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Dead chicken sacrificed during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Both chickens lay on their left side, indicating that the shrine servant is free to go. One or both of the chickens laying on their right side would mean the servant needs to spend another three months at the shrine. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Head priest about to sacrifice a chicken during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Head priest about to sacrifice a chicken during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Priestess receiving a gin offering during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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