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  • A girl carries firewood and cassava leaves on her head in the village of Kawejah, Grand Cape Mount county, Liberia on Friday April 6, 2012.
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  • A girl carries firewood and cassava leaves on her head in the village of Kawejah, Grand Cape Mount county, Liberia on Friday April 6, 2012.
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  • Tarah 7, prepares cassava leaves as she cooks with her mother Edith at their home in the village of Jenneh, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. As part of a UNICEF sponsored social cash transfer programme, Tarah and her family receive 2650 Liberian dollars (approx. 36 USD) per month. The money has allowed her to buy cassava from which she makes fufu that she then sells for profit. She also uses some of the money to send all of her seven children to school. Before joining the programme, only 3  of her children attended school.
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  • Leaves drying outside a home in Tano Akakro, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday June 20, 2009.
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  • Pico Fogo, the country's highest mountain, an active volcano towering at 2,829m (9,281 feet) in the Fogo national park on Fogo island, Cape Verde on Wednesday January 6, 2010..
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  • Tropical waterfall, Ghana. Wli falls, highest waterfall in west africa.
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  • A boy comes out of a home holding a plastic teapot typically used for going to the bathroom and hand washing in the village of Kawejah, Grand Cape Mount county, Liberia on Friday April 6, 2012.
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  • Koffi Yao Franck, 12, uses a machete to clear dry leaves under cocoa trees on his family's cocoa plantation near the village of Soumaorodougou, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday March 3, 2012. He goes to school but helps with farming chores on weekends.
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  • Koffi Yao Franck, 12, uses a machete to clear dry leaves under cocoa trees on his family's cocoa plantation near the village of Soumaorodougou, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday March 3, 2012. He goes to school but helps with farming chores on weekends.
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  • Farm workers collect dried jatropha fruits from trees at a farm outside the town of Lolito, roughly 80km east of Ghana's capital Accra, on Thursday Dec. 12, 2006. Jatropha - which grows naturally in Ghana and other parts of Africa - can be used to make biodiesel. The tree is drought-resistant and loses its leaves during the dry season.<br />
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  • Marielle Gnabrayou Digbeto, 28, puts a pill bottle into her purse as she leaves the pharmacy at the Koumassi general hospital in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire on Friday July 19, 2013. Marielle is pregnant with her first child and HIV positive. She's taking drugs for eMTCT, but doesn't want people to know for fear of being rejected. She lives across town but comes to the Koumassi hospital so that nobody will find out.
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  • Marielle Gnabrayou Digbeto, 28, puts a pill bottle into her purse as she leaves the pharmacy at the Koumassi general hospital in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire on Friday July 19, 2013. Marielle is pregnant with her first child and HIV positive. She's taking drugs for eMTCT, but doesn't want people to know for fear of being rejected. She lives across town but comes to the Koumassi hospital so that nobody will find out.
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  • A woman holds her baby girl as she leaves after a vaccination session at the primary school in the town of Coyolito, Honduras on Wednesday April 24, 2013.
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  • A woman holds her baby girl as she leaves after a vaccination session at the primary school in the town of Coyolito, Honduras on Wednesday April 24, 2013.
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  • A boy who doesn't know his age and doesn't attend school carries a bunch of leaves in the town of Faye, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire on Monday March 5, 2012.
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  • Koffi Affoue Ange, 10, uses a machete to clear dry leaves under cocoa trees on her family's cocoa plantation near the village of Soumaorodougou, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday March 3, 2012. She goes to school but helps with farming chores on weekends.
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  • Koffi Affoue Ange, 10, (L) and Drissa Amoin Rose, 11, (R) use machetes to clear dry leaves under cocoa trees on their family's cocoa plantation near the village of Soumaorodougou, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday March 3, 2012. They go to school but help with farming chores on weekends.
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  • Koffi Affoue Ange, 10, (R) and Drissa Amoin Rose, 11, (L) use machetes to clear dry leaves under cocoa trees on their family's cocoa plantation near the village of Soumaorodougou, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday March 3, 2012. They go to school but help with farming chores on weekends.
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  • Kouassi Konan Cedric, 12, uses a machete to clear dry leaves under cocoa trees on his family's cocoa plantation near the village of Soumaorodougou, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday March 3, 2012. He goes to school but help with farming chores on weekends.
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  • Kouassi Konan Cedric, 12, uses a machete to clear dry leaves under cocoa trees on his family's cocoa plantation near the village of Soumaorodougou, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday March 3, 2012. He goes to school but helps with farming chores on weekends.
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  • Drissa Amoin Rose, 11, uses a machete to clear dry leaves under cocoa trees on her family's cocoa plantation near the village of Soumaorodougou, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday March 3, 2012. She goes to school but help with farming chores on weekends.
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  • Koffi Yao Franck, 12, uses a machete to clear dry leaves under cocoa trees on his family's cocoa plantation near the village of Soumaorodougou, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday March 3, 2012. He goes to school but helps with farming chores on weekends.
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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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  • Patience Nsona harvests cassava leaves to bring back home for cooking in the village of Kinsiesi, Bas-Congo province, Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday June 18, 2011.
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  • A boy sits on the ground inside the basic shelter made of palm leaves where he lives after his home was destroyed by floods in the village of Kpoto, Benin on Wednesday October 27, 2010.
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  • A woman stands between tents and basic shelters made of palm leaves where people now live after their homes were destroyed by floods in the village of Kpoto, Benin on Wednesday October 27, 2010.
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  • A man leaves his sandals outside as he enters a mosque in Tamale, northern Ghana on Tuesday March 24, 2009.
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  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, holds a cocoa pod he just cracked open to display the seeds on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The seeds will then be wrapped in banana leaves and left to ferment for six days before being sun-dried.
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  • Farm workers use machetes to crack cocoa pods open on a farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The seeds will then be wrapped in banana leaves and left to ferment for six days before being sun-dried.
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  • Farm workers collect dried jatropha fruits from trees at a farm outside the town of Lolito, roughly 80km east of Ghana's capital Accra, on Thursday Dec. 12, 2006. Jatropha - which grows naturally in Ghana and other parts of Africa - can be used to make biodiesel. The tree is drought-resistant and loses its leaves during the dry season.<br />
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  • Photo illustration representing blood on leaves left by genital mutilation on girls in the town of Katiola, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday July 13, 2013.
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  • A woman leaves with her daughter after attending a vaccination session at the primary school in the town of Coyolito, Honduras on Wednesday April 24, 2013.
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  • Koffi Affoue Ange, 10, uses a machete to clear dry leaves under cocoa trees on her family's cocoa plantation near the village of Soumaorodougou, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday March 3, 2012. She goes to school but helps with farming chores on weekends.
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  • Koffi Affoue Ange, 10, uses a machete to clear dry leaves under cocoa trees on her family's cocoa plantation near the village of Soumaorodougou, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday March 3, 2012. She goes to school but help with farming chores on weekends.
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  • Koffi Yao Franck, 12, uses a machete to clear dry leaves under cocoa trees on his family's cocoa plantation near the village of Soumaorodougou, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday March 3, 2012. He goes to school but helps with farming chores on weekends.
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  • Drissa Amoin Rose, 11, uses a machete to clear dry leaves under cocoa trees on her family's cocoa plantation near the village of Soumaorodougou, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday March 3, 2012. She goes to school but help with farming chores on weekends.
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  • Amelie Adoko, 42, two of a friend's children while sitting in a basic shelter made of palm leaves near the village of Kpoto, Benin on Wednesday October 27, 2010. Most of the village was destroyed by floods that have hit the country over the past few weeks, forcing its 1500 to flee. They now live in a makeshift camp located about 500 meters from the village. Amelie looks after a friend's children while she's gone to the market.
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  • A boy sits on the ground while his younger sibling lies on a mat inside the basic shelter made of palm leaves where they live after their home was destroyed by floods in the village of Kpoto, Benin on Wednesday October 27, 2010.
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  • A man leaves a voting booth after filling his ballot during presidential elections in Accra, Ghana on Sunday December 28, 2008. Voters were back at the polls to decide on a new leader after none of the candidates was able to obtain a 50 percent plus one vote majority during the election's first round on Dec 7.
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  • Farm workers use machetes to crack cocoa pods open on a farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The seeds will then be wrapped in banana leaves and left to ferment for six days before being sun-dried.
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  • Nicole, 16, stands in the doorway of one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. Nicole started working as a sex worker after running away from home, where her mother used to beat her. She says she can have up to 10 or 20 clients in a day; each of them pays 1000 CFA (2$). "When I started I went for a whole week without using condoms. I was new, I didn't know", she says. "Sometimes the police come to catch us. We have to pay them 3000, 5000 or 10,000 so that they leave us alone. Other times you have to sleep with them." Nicole went to school up to grade 5.
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  • Nicole, 16, stands in the doorway of one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. Nicole started working as a sex worker after running away from home, where her mother used to beat her. She says she can have up to 10 or 20 clients in a day; each of them pays 1000 CFA (2$). "When I started I went for a whole week without using condoms. I was new, I didn't know", she says. "Sometimes the police come to catch us. We have to pay them 3000, 5000 or 10,000 so that they leave us alone. Other times you have to sleep with them." Nicole went to school up to grade 5.
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  • Nicole, 16, sits in one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. Nicole started working as a sex worker after running away from home, where her mother used to beat her. She says she can have up to 10 or 20 clients in a day; each of them pays 1000 CFA (2$). "When I started I went for a whole week without using condoms. I was new, I didn't know", she says. "Sometimes the police come to catch us. We have to pay them 3000, 5000 or 10,000 so that they leave us alone. Other times you have to sleep with them." Nicole went to school up to grade 5.
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  • Elizabeth Farma, 16, carries her two-month-old son Emmanuel on her back near the Bonthe district hospital in Bonthe, Sierra Leone on Wednesday April 21, 2010. Elizabeth still attends high school, and leave the child with her grandmother while she is in class.
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  • Elizabeth Farma, 16, holds her two-month-old son Emmanuel near the Bonthe district hospital in Bonthe, Sierra Leone on Wednesday April 21, 2010. Elizabeth still attends high school, and leave the child with her grandmother while she is in class.
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  • Visitors hang out near Cape Coast castle in Cape Coast, Ghana on Saturday September 6, 2008. The fort was used during the slave trade as one of several exit points for slaves leaving Africa for the New World.
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  • A group of young men hang out near Cape Coast castle, in Cape Coast, Ghana on Sunday September 7, 2008. The fort was used during the slave trade as one of several exit points for slaves leaving Africa for the New World.
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  • Girls leave classrooms at lunch time at the Mame Diarra Bousso koranic school in the village of Porokhane, Senegal, on Monday June 18, 2007.
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  • Nicole, 16, stands in the doorway of one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. Nicole started working as a sex worker after running away from home, where her mother used to beat her. She says she can have up to 10 or 20 clients in a day; each of them pays 1000 CFA (2$). "When I started I went for a whole week without using condoms. I was new, I didn't know", she says. "Sometimes the police come to catch us. We have to pay them 3000, 5000 or 10,000 so that they leave us alone. Other times you have to sleep with them." Nicole went to school up to grade 5.
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  • Nicole, 16, stands in the doorway of one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. Nicole started working as a sex worker after running away from home, where her mother used to beat her. She says she can have up to 10 or 20 clients in a day; each of them pays 1000 CFA (2$). "When I started I went for a whole week without using condoms. I was new, I didn't know", she says. "Sometimes the police come to catch us. We have to pay them 3000, 5000 or 10,000 so that they leave us alone. Other times you have to sleep with them." Nicole went to school up to grade 5.
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  • Nicole, 16, sits in one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. Nicole started working as a sex worker after running away from home, where her mother used to beat her. She says she can have up to 10 or 20 clients in a day; each of them pays 1000 CFA (2$). "When I started I went for a whole week without using condoms. I was new, I didn't know", she says. "Sometimes the police come to catch us. We have to pay them 3000, 5000 or 10,000 so that they leave us alone. Other times you have to sleep with them." Nicole went to school up to grade 5.
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  • Marielle Gnabrayou Digbeto, 28, puts a pill bottle into her purse as she prepares to leave the pharmacy at the Koumassi general hospital in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire on Friday July 19, 2013. Marielle is pregnant with her first child and HIV positive. She's taking drugs for eMTCT, but doesn't want people to know for fear of being rejected. She lives across town but comes to the Koumassi hospital so that nobody will find out.
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  • A man tries to force Marie Tabeh, the mother of two-year-old Blackie, to get aboard the emergency speedboat that will carry her child to the district hospital from the village of Yoni, on Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone on Thursday April 22, 2010. Suffering from severe dehydration, the boy needed to be referred to the district hospital. Marie refused to follow her child without the approval of her husband; medical staff had to leave the mother behind to save the child's life.
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  • A boy leans against the fortified wall of Cape Coast castle in Cape Coast, Ghana on Saturday September 6, 2008. The fort was used during the slave trade as one of several exit points for slaves leaving Africa for the New World.
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  • Members of the #1 Asafo company wait for their chief to leave after listening to official speeches during the annual Oguaa Fetu Afahye Festival in Cape Coast, Ghana on Saturday September 6, 2008.
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  • Children leave school at the Essaout primary school in the village of Essaout, Senegal, on Thursday June 14, 2007...
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