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  • A man closes his eyes as he holds up his candle during a public candlelight memorial for late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, at Meskel Square in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. Thousands turned out for the first of three days of planned commemorative ceremonies. Zenawi will be buried on Sunday, Sept. 2.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • Water from a leaky fire hose rains down on neighborhood residents as they attempt to put out a fire that had already burned dozens of homes, in the New Building slum neighborhood in central Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. As firefighters struggled to get enough water pressure to make their firehoses work, residents fought the fire with buckets of waste water and used mallets to tear down homes in the fire's path. Equatorial Guinea and Gabon are currently co-hosting the African Cup of Nations soccer tournament. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • A soldier loyal to Alassane Ouattara lies wounded in the road after a deadly car accident outside Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Doctors were unable to get him to a hospital in time to safe his life. Ivory Coast's entrenched strongman Laurent Gbagbo huddled in a bunker at his home and was exploring different options for his surrender, officials said Tuesday, as forces backing the country's democratically elected leader seized the residence.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • An infant being treated for severe malnutrition rests in a sling at his mother's side at a hospital operated by the International Rescue Committee, in Hagadera Camp outside Dadaab, Kenya, Saturday, July 9, 2011. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates 1300 new refugees fleeing drought and hunger in Somalia are arriving daily in the Dadaab area. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • Supporters of incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo raise their hands in a show of support, at a pro-Gbagbo rally in the Yopougon district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011. Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo was shuttling between meetings Sunday with the country's defiant president who refuses to cede power and the internationally recognized winner in the latest effort to resolve the post-election crisis. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • In this Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012 photo, a sheep nuzzles the hand of prizewinning sheep breeder Ousmane Ndiaye as he explains the pedigree of each of his dozen animals, in the sheltered rooftop pens he has specially constructed for them atop his home in the HLM neighborhood of Dakar, Senegal. In a nation where sheep are given names and kept inside homes as companion animals, the most popular show on television is "Khar Bii," or literally, "This Sheep" in the local Wolof language. It's an American Idol-style nationwide search for Senegal's most perfect specimen ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival, known locally as Tabaski. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • In this Oct. 10, 2013 photo, Aida Diallo, whose ten-year-old son Bamba was killed when a fire struck the Dakar shack where he was sleeping along with other Quranic students, sits in her one-room home in the village of Ndame, Senegal. Bamba's older brother Cheikhou, 13, managed to escape the fire which killed Bamba and three of their cousins. For now the surviving boys and their teacher are back in Ndame, but, says Diallo, when their teacher, her brother, returns to Dakar, Cheikhou will go too. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • Senegalese security agents stand watch outside the HLM Grand Medine Primary School ahead of the arrival of U.S. first lady Laura Bush, in Dakar, Senegal, Tuesday, June 26, 2007. Bush picked vegetables and handed out mosquito nets in this West African capital Tuesday to emphasize that fighting AIDS in Africa also means tackling some of the continent's even more widespread afflictions _ malnutrition and malaria.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • In this May 23, 2012 photo, chief midwife Maria Antoneta Cabral Barbosa holds a newborn baby boy she has just delivered by flashlight, at the regional hospital in Gabu, Guinea-Bissau. In Guinea-Bissau, one of the deadliest places in the world to give birth, a woman has a 1 in 19 chance of maternal death, compared to about 1 in 2,100 in the United States. Experts say women are increasingly heading to medical centers when things go awry, but logistical, financial, and cultural barriers are still keeping many pregnant women from seeking help in time. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • In this May 24, 2012 photo, pregnant, married teenager Aissato Sanha braces herself on a hospital bed as she experiences a contraction, in the maternity ward of the regional hospital in Gabu, Guinea-Bissau. Aissato, who gave her age as 18, but medical staff believe to be as young as 15, waited out the final weeks of her first pregnancy under medical supervision at the House of Mothers. Outreach workers had identified her as high risk due to her young age, small frame, and hypertension. In Guinea-Bissau, one of the deadliest places in the world to give birth, a woman has a 1 in 19 chance of maternal death, compared to about 1 in 2,100 in the United States. Experts say women are increasingly heading to medical centers when things go awry, but logistical, financial, and cultural barriers are still keeping many pregnant women from seeking help in time. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • Cameroonians react, as Pope Benedict XVI arrives at Amadou Ahidjo stadium to celebrate a special mass, in Yaounde, Cameroon, Thursday, March 19, 2009. Pope Benedict XVI urged Cameroon's bishops Wednesday to defend the traditional African family from the dangers of modernity and secularization and to spare the poor from the impact of globalization. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • A member of an armed neighborhood defense squad, which residents say is not anti-balaka, but local Christian residents protecting themselves, carries a machete as he walks near a roadblock in Bangui, Central African Republic, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • Kids play soccer in a dusty lot as the sun goes down, in a rural community outside Rustenburg, Johannesburg, South Africa Thursday, June 24, 2010. The first soccer World Cup on the African continent is underway since June 11. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • Students attend an Arabic class at the Al-Haraiman French-Arabic School in Yaounde, Cameroon Monday, March 16, 2009. Pope Benedict XVI will meet with representatives of Cameroon's Muslim community during his first trip to Africa, the fastest-growing region for the Roman Catholic church. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • In this Wednesday, July 30, 2014 photo, a young Honduran migrant who didn't want his face to appear in photos hides behind a painting he found in a guard shack, while waiting with a group of migrants for a northbound train, in Huehuetoca, outside Mexico City. The migrant was one of three young Honduran brothers traveling north together in hopes of finding work in the U.S. Days earlier, they said, they had been robbed along with two dozen other passengers while riding a train. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • Mexican airforce aircraft, trailing the colors of the national flag fly over the National Palace during the finale of an annual Independence Day parade by Mexico's Armed Forces, in the Zocalo in central Mexico City,Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. Mexico is marking the 204th anniversary of its independence from Spain. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • In this Wednesday, June 18, 2014 photo, Daniel Reyes, 3, from Salvador lies beside his mother, Christina Castellon, in the women's section of a shelter providing temporary refuge to Central American migrants on their way north, in Arriaga, Chiapas State, Mexico. Women and children face additional risks on the journey north. It can be harder for mothers to get their children safely onto moving trains and they have to worry more about them falling once on top. Older children can be conscripted as mules by drug cartels, and women face an ever-present threat of sexual assault. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • In this June 19, 2014 photo, a Central American migrant practices scaling parked boxcars, as he awaits the arrival of a northbound freight train in Arriaga, Chiapas state, Mexico. The number of unaccompanied minors detained on the U.S. border has more than tripled since 2011. Children are also widely believed to be crossing with their parents in rising numbers, although the Obama administration has not released year-by-year figures. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • A girl standing amongst relatives waiting to be reunited with their children, stands just inside a police cordon outside The Great Family group home, in Zamora, Michoacan State, Mexico, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Mexican prosecutors said Wednesday that victims told harrowing tales of sexual abuse, beatings, hunger and filth, in a once well-regarded group home where authorities freed hundreds of adults and children in a raid. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • AP10ThingsToSee - Boys watch television in their room at The Great Family group home, in Zamora, Mexico, Thursday, July 17, 2014. After a police raid on the refuse-strewn group home Tuesday, residents of the shelter told authorities that some employees beat residents, fed them rotting food or locked them in a tiny "punishment" room. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • Migrants waiting for a northbound train gather their belongings as they hear a train whistle in Huehuetoca, outside Mexico City, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. One of the two men had been deported from Texas the day before and was already on his way back north. He said it was his third time being deported, and that he had told American authorities he was Mexican in order to have a shorter trip back to the border after deportation. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • Sisters dressed as identical "Calaveras Catrinas," pose for a photo with a little boy, dressed as wolf, during their visit to the Zocalo, where giant skulls and offerings were erected by the city to mark the Day of the Dead holiday, in Mexico City, Friday, Oct. 31, 2014. The Day of the Dead holiday honors the dead as friends and families gather in cemeteries to decorate their loved ones' graves and hold vigil through the night on Nov. 1 and 2. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • In this Feb. 26, 2015 photo, Charro Carlos Maurer, from Puebla, practices his lasso skills ahead of the roping events, during a charreada in Mexico City. In team roping, charros must lasso both the neck and the hind legs of a bull, while in horse roping a charro on foot must capture a wild horse by roping its front legs. Extra points are awarded for rope tricks. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • In this June 21, 2015 photo, empty bottles hang outside a beverage vendor's stall in Canaan, Haiti. While some see encouraging signs in Canaan’s self-reliance, others see ills familiar to the hemisphere’s poorest nation: non-existent public services; lack of decent jobs; and unsanitary conditions. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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  • In this June 29, 2015 photo, hairdresser Loavia Bienaime, 30, sits on her bed as she prepares to begin her day in the room her family occupies in an government office building that was damaged in the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Bienaime's husband, Jimmy Bellefleur, used his skill as an electrician to connect the abandoned building to the power grid, and has repaired broken televisions, fans, and a blender for the family to use. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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