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Farmers and nomads take to violence in drought-stricken Chad 08 Apr 2019 - 05:21 pm
Farmers find a shelter under a mango tree to avoid the heat and the sun, on the road between Adre and Farchana, in the region of Ouaddaï, on March 25, 2019.  AFP / Amaury Hauchard
The horns of the Broto, a Central African tradition under threat 08 Apr 2019 - 05:21 pm
A Broto musician blows into the side of his wooden instrument to produce a deep, resonant sound from the bell.  AFP / Florent Vergnes
Hungarian Roma designer fights stereotypes with fashion 07 Apr 2019 - 11:39 pm
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Anti-apartheid activists laid to rest in peace, 50 years on 07 Apr 2019 - 09:48 pm
Pulane Koboekae looks at a picture of her older brother Richard Motsoahae during a tour of the gallows at Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Facility in Pretoria, South Africa on August 15, 2018. AFP / Phill Magakoe
In Aleppo, the fate of a legendary hotel hangs in balance 07 Apr 2019 - 09:48 pm
A picture taken in Aleppo shows the Baron Hotel. (AFP file photo)
Africa's richest man withdrew $10 million just to look at it 07 Apr 2019 - 12:44 pm
File picture of Dangote Industries tycoon Aliko Dangote at the Bloomberg Business Forum. Reuters
Mary Quant: queen of the mini-skirt 04 Apr 2019 - 09:37 pm
Garments are displayed during a photocall for the first international retrospective on the iconic fashion designer Dame Mary Quant, exploring the years between 1955 and 1975, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in central London on April 3, 2019.  AFP / Adr
The Sudanese cartoonist reaching out to the world 04 Apr 2019 - 09:37 pm
A video screengrab of Sudanese political cartoonist Khalid Albaih in Copenhagen, Denmark. PHOTO | AFP
Roads deadlier than guns in Libya 04 Apr 2019 - 06:48 pm
Libyan traffic police direct cars during an operation at the Martyrs Square in the Libyan capital Tripoli, on March 12, 2019.  AFP / Mahmud Turkia
Heaven sent: Taiwan honours dead with lavish paper models 04 Apr 2019 - 06:38 pm
This picture taken on March 16, 2019 shows a relative (R) watching a 'villa' paper model, used as an offering for the dead, burn during a ceremony in Shanshia district in New Taipei City. AFP/Sam Yeh
At Athens pinball museum, arcade gamers go back in time 04 Apr 2019 - 12:19 pm
Pinball machines are seen at the Athens Pinball Museum in Athens, Greece March 2, 2019. Picture taken March 2, 2019. REUTERS/Costas Baltas
We feel free: South Africans cycle through apartheid's spatial divides 03 Apr 2019 - 09:49 pm
Maria Kgatitsoe, the only female cyclist to ride to Durban in South Africa with the Stokvel group, strikes a pose in the town of Ladysmith. Handout picture courtesy of: Lesego Button Konupi
Scottish 'Holocaust heroine' who saved Jewish girls lauded in book 03 Apr 2019 - 09:49 pm
Jane Haining, who looked after Jewish girls in Hungary during the Second World War, is seen with girls from the Scottish Mission School in Budapest on holiday at Lake Balaton in Hungary in this undated photo probably from the late 1930s.  Photo: Church of
Pope: Church should admit history of abuse of women, male domination 02 Apr 2019 - 10:22 pm
Pope Francis arrives to hold a mass at Prince Moulay Abdellah sports complex in Rabat, Morocco, March 31, 2019. Reuters/Remo Casilli
Costa Rica seeks to free 'trapped' communities from protected area 02 Apr 2019 - 09:23 pm
Farmers plough the land with the help of their horse on a plantation in Tierra Blanca de Cartago, east of San Jose May 15, 2012. Reuters/Juan Carlos Ulate
Murder of child maid forces Pakistan to soul search 02 Apr 2019 - 06:51 pm
In this picture taken on March 13, 2019, a Pakistani boy walks past the house where 16-year-old Uzma worked as a maid, in Lahore, before being killed and dumped in a city canal. AFP / Arif Ali
Downtown Cairo battles to keep cosmopolitan heritage alive 02 Apr 2019 - 01:29 pm
This picture taken on March 8, 2019 shows a view of the central Talaat Harb square in the Egyptian capital Cairo's downtown district. AFP/Khaled Desouki
A roundup of Monday's April Fools: Danes to build Brexit 'herring wall' and other pranks 01 Apr 2019 - 10:21 pm
People attend the Silly Walk Parade, emulating a sketch from British comedy group Monty Python's television series to mark April Fool's day in Budapest, Hungary, April 1, 2019. Reuters/Bernadett Szabo