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  • Togolese refugees work building a mud-brick house in a small village along the Togolese border, Eastern Ghana. Thousands of Togolese citizens crossed the border into Ghana after the violence that followed presidential elections in April 2005. Partly because of strong cultural ties between populations on both sides of the border, Togolese refugees were able to enjoy the relative hospitality of their Ghanaian neighbours, and are today scattered in various villages across the border. The UNHCR complains that, since the refugees aren't concentratred in large camps, media attention has been minimal, and that it has been very difficult to attract funding.
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  • Togolese refugees work building a mud-brick house in a small village along the Togolese border, Eastern Ghana. Thousands of Togolese citizens crossed the border into Ghana after the violence that followed presidential elections in April 2005. Partly because of strong cultural ties between populations on both sides of the border, Togolese refugees were able to enjoy the relative hospitality of their Ghanaian neighbours, and are today scattered in various villages across the border. The UNHCR complains that, since the refugees aren't concentratred in large camps, media attention has been minimal, and that it has been very difficult to attract funding.
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  • A man making handbags at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
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  • A man making handbags at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
    GHA08.1103.SIAO0560.jpg
  • A woman uses traditional looms to weave textile at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
    GHA08.1103.SIAO0538.jpg
  • A man sands small pieces of cow horn at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
    GHA08.1103.SIAO0410.jpg
  • A man sands small pieces of cow horn at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
    GHA08.1103.SIAO0406.jpg
  • A man sands small pieces of cow horn at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
    GHA08.1103.SIAO0405.jpg
  • A man makes a drum at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
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  • A man making statuettes from recycled metal at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
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  • A man makes wooden carvings at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
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  • A man makes wooden carvings at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
    GHA08.1103.SIAO0197.jpg
  • A man makes wooden carvings at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
    GHA08.1103.SIAO0189.jpg
  • Men make wooden carvings at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
    GHA08.1103.SIAO0185.jpg
  • A man makes wooden carvings at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
    GHA08.1103.SIAO0183.jpg
  • A man makes wooden carvings at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
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  • A man makes wooden carvings at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
    GHA08.1103.SIAO0170.jpg
  • Women use traditional looms to weave textile at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
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  • Women use traditional looms to weave textile at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
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  • Women use traditional looms to weave textile at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
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  • A woman uses traditional looms to weave textile at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
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  • Coffin makers Dennis Adjei (in green) and Daniel Kofi work on a tiger-shaped coffin, ordered for an important head of family, at the Hello Design Coffins shop in Teshie, on the outskirts of Ghana's capital Accra, on Tuesday December 9, 2008.
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  • A man making handbags at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
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  • A man making handbags at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
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  • A man making handbags at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
    GHA08.1103.SIAO0561.jpg
  • A woman uses traditional looms to weave textile at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
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  • A woman uses traditional looms to weave textile at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
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  • A man sands a cow horn at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
    GHA08.1103.SIAO0395.jpg
  • A man makes a drum at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
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  • A man making statuettes from recycled metal at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
    GHA08.1103.SIAO0224.jpg
  • A man making statuettes from recycled metal at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
    GHA08.1103.SIAO0217.jpg
  • Men make wooden carvings at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
    GHA08.1103.SIAO0186.jpg
  • Women use traditional looms to weave textile at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
    GHA08.1103.SIAO0136.jpg
  • A woman uses traditional looms to weave textile at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
    GHA08.1103.SIAO0051.jpg
  • A woman uses traditional looms to weave textile at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
    GHA08.1103.SIAO0040.jpg
  • A woman uses traditional looms to weave textile at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
    GHA08.1103.SIAO0044.jpg
  • A woman uses traditional looms to weave textile at the Village Artisanal de Ouagadougou, a cooperative that employs dozens of artisans who work in different mediums, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday November 3, 2008.
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  • Daniel Oblie, owner of Hello Design Coffins, opens the back of a tanker truck-shaped coffin at his workshop in Teshie, on the outskirts of Ghana's capital Accra, on Tuesday December 9, 2008. Is it a tradition in Ghana to bury people in coffins shaped to represent their life's work. For instance, the owner of an fuel company would be buried in a tanker-truck coffin, a cocoa farmer in one shaped as a cocoa pod.
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  • Coffins shaped as lions, cars and cocoa pods are seen on display at the Hello Design Coffins shop in Teshie, on the outskirts of Ghana's capital Accra, on Tuesday December 9, 2008.  Is it a tradition in Ghana to bury people in coffins shaped to represent their life's work. For instance, a chief would be buried in a lion-shaped coffin, a driver in a car-shaped one, and a cocoa farmer in one shaped as a cocoa pod..
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  • Women working at palm oil processing plant outside Ashaiman, one of Ghana's largest slums. The plant is set a few meters away from a large garbage dump.
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  • Women working at palm oil processing plant outside Ashaiman, one of Ghana's largest slums. The plant is set a few meters away from a large garbage dump.
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  • Women working at palm oil processing plant outside Ashaiman, one of Ghana's largest slums. The plant is set a few meters away from a large garbage dump.
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  • Women working at palm oil processing plant outside Ashaiman, one of Ghana's largest slums. The plant is set a few meters away from a large garbage dump.
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  • Women working at palm oil processing plant outside Ashaiman, one of Ghana's largest slums. The plant is set a few meters away from a large garbage dump.
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  • Women working at palm oil processing plant outside Ashaiman, one of Ghana's largest slums. The plant is set a few meters away from a large garbage dump.
    GHA05Ashaiman0006.jpg
  • Women working at palm oil processing plant outside Ashaiman, one of Ghana's largest slums. The plant is set a few meters away from a large garbage dump.
    GHA05Ashaiman0008.jpg
  • Women working at palm oil processing plant outside Ashaiman, one of Ghana's largest slums. The plant is set a few meters away from a large garbage dump.
    GHA05Ashaiman0009.jpg
  • Women working at palm oil processing plant outside Ashaiman, one of Ghana's largest slums. The plant is set a few meters away from a large garbage dump.
    GHA05Ashaiman0011.jpg
  • Women working at palm oil processing plant outside Ashaiman, one of Ghana's largest slums. The plant is set a few meters away from a large garbage dump.
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  • A boy draws water from a well in the West Point slum in Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
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  • A girl hand washes clothes in the Point Four neighborhood of Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Thursday April 5, 2012.
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  • Tarah, 7, helps her mother Edith Saysay, 35, clean dishes  outside 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, Edith 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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  • A girl watches while a woman draws water from a well in the West Point slum in Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
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  • A woman lays out fish to somke in the West Point slum of Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
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  • Women beat shea paste by hand to help form emulsion at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • Women beat shea paste by hand to help form emulsion at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • Women beat shea paste by hand to help form emulsion at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • A man uses a machine to mill shea nut grounds into a paste at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • Women pour liquid shea butter soap into a mold at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • A man uses a machine to mill shea nut grounds into a paste at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • Women mix ingredients to make 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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  • Women filter oil produced from shea nuts at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • Ground shea nuts dry in the sun at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • A woman pours shea nuts into a grinder at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • A woman spreads shea nuts on a concrete floor to dry them in the sun at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • Women pour shea nuts on a concrete floor to dry them in the sun at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • Women use water to clean shea nuts at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • Women use water to clean shea nuts at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • Roasted palm nuts.
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  • Man rubbing oil on goat leather to increase flexibility at a local tannery in Tamale, Northern Ghana.
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  • A worker nails cow hides to the ground to stretch them as they dry at a local tannery in Tamale, Northern Ghana.
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  • A woman lays out fish to somke in the West Point slum of Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
    LBR12.0402.NUT1088.JPG
  • Women beat shea paste by hand to help form emulsion at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
    MAL10.0116.SHEA0656.JPG
  • Women mix ingredients to make shea butter soap at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
    MAL10.0116.SHEA0464.JPG
  • Women mix ingredients to make shea butter soap at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
    MAL10.0116.SHEA0458.JPG
  • Women pile sacks of dried shea nuts in a storage room at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • A girl does her homework in the West Point slum of Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
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  • A woman filters oil produced from shea nuts at the Dembayouma shea processing center in the village of Bankoumana, near Bamako, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • Girls carry water containers they filled from a water pump outside their village.
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  • Girls carry water containers they filled from a water pump outside their village.
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  • A girl uses a hand pump to get water.
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  • A girl uses a hand pump to get water.
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  • Three boys help a man push a wooden scooter (chikudu) loaded with logs in Rutshuru, 70km north of Goma, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on Thursday December 11, 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 man carves wooden statues of giraffes in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • Drum-maker Michael Odametey carves a traditional drum in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
    GHA09.0616.GATES0482.jpg
  • Drum-maker Michael Odametey carves a traditional drum in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • A boy pounds palm nuts at home in a rural area near Kpong, Ghana on Wednesday June 17, 2009.
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  • Children sell papayas by the roadside near Kpong, Ghana on Wednesday June 17, 2009.
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  • A woman carries a large plate of peanuts on her head while offering them for sale in Kpong, Ghana on Wednesday June 17, 2009.
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  • Workers pack mangoes in plastic crates at Domescho farms in Somanya, Ghana on Wednesday June 17, 2009.
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  • A farm worker picks mangoes at Domescho farms in Somanya, Ghana on Wednesday June 17, 2009.
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  • A farm worker picks mangoes at Domescho farms in Somanya, Ghana on Wednesday June 17, 2009.
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  • Farm workers sit on crates at Domecho mango farms in Somanya, Ghana on Wednesday June 17, 2009.
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  • Boys fill plastic containers with water at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
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  • A boy ties a plastic container full of water to the back of his bike as he prepares to head home at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
    GHA07.0310.GUINEAWORM418.jpg
  • Apprentice coffin maker Jonathan Aduful  adjusts the lid of a chicken-shaped coffin, ordered for a poultry farmer, at the Hello Design Coffins shop in Teshie, on the outskirts of Ghana's capital Accra, on Tuesday December 9, 2008.
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  • Coffin maker Adjei Dennis carves the nose of a tiger-shaped coffin, ordered for an important head of family, at the Hello Design Coffins shop in Teshie, on the outskirts of Ghana's capital Accra, on Tuesday December 9, 2008.
    GHA08.1206.COFFINS0001.jpg
  • Children clean dishes in the village of Lalo, Benin on Tuesday September 18, 2007.
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  • Worker taking at pause at a rice packing plant in Asutsuare, Ghana.
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