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  • An employee helps a customer browse the internet at the Busy Internet internet cafe in Accra, Ghana on Thursday February 1, 2007. Founded five years ago, the company offers the services of a standard internet cafe, but also provides internet access to 90,000 residential and commercial clients. Busy Internet has grown 30-35% since its creation, and has over 120 employees..
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  • Customers browse the internet at the Busy Internet internet cafe in Accra, Ghana on Thursday February 1, 2007. Founded five years ago, the company offers the services of a standard internet cafe, but also provides internet access to 90,000 residential and commercial clients. Busy Internet has grown 30-35% since its creation, and has over 120 employees.
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  • Customers browse the internet at the Busy Internet internet cafe in Accra, Ghana on Thursday February 1, 2007. Founded five years ago, the company offers the services of a standard internet cafe, but also provides internet access to 90,000 residential and commercial clients. Busy Internet has grown 30-35% since its creation, and has over 120 employees.
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  • Customers browse the internet at the Busy Internet internet cafe in Accra, Ghana on Thursday February 1, 2007. Founded five years ago, the company offers the services of a standard internet cafe, but also provides internet access to 90,000 residential and commercial clients. Busy Internet has grown 30-35% since its creation, and has over 120 employees..
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  • Customers browse the internet at the Busy Internet internet cafe in Accra, Ghana on Thursday February 1, 2007. Founded five years ago, the company offers the services of a standard internet cafe, but also provides internet access to 90,000 residential and commercial clients. Busy Internet has grown 30-35% since its creation, and has over 120 employees..
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  • Administrative assistant Nana Ama Bentsi-Enchill (front) and a group of students use laptops to browse the internet over a wireless network at the Kokrobitey Institute in the town of Kokrobitey, 30km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sunday January 18, 2009.
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  • Students use laptops to browse the internet over a wireless network at the Kokrobitey Institute in the town of Kokrobitey, 30km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sunday January 18, 2009. From left to right Patrick Tetteh Tamatey, Reuben Sekpona, Abass Aryee, Nana Ama Bentsi-Enchill, Simon Mensah.
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  • Students use laptops to browse the internet over a wireless network at the Kokrobitey Institute in the town of Kokrobitey, 30km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sunday January 18, 2009. From left to right Reuben Sekpona, Abass Aryee, Nana Ama Bentsi-Enchill, Simon Mensah.
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  • Abass Aryee (L) and Oti Dodoo use laptops to browse the internet over a wireless network at the Kokrobitey Institute in the town of Kokrobitey, 30km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sunday January 18, 2009.
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  • Students use laptops to browse the internet over a wireless network at the Kokrobitey Institute in the town of Kokrobitey, 30km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sunday January 18, 2009. From left to right Abass Aryee, Oti Dodoo, Nana Ama Bentsi-Enchill, Kenful Agbemenya, Simon Mensah.
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  • Students use laptops to browse the internet over a wireless network at the Kokrobitey Institute in the town of Kokrobitey, 30km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sunday January 18, 2009. From left to right Joshua Sarbah, Oti Dodoo, Abass Aryee.
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  • Students use laptops to browse the internet over a wireless network at the Kokrobitey Institute in the town of Kokrobitey, 30km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sunday January 18, 2009. From left to right Oti Dodoo, Patrick Tetteh Tamatey, Reuben Sekpona, Kenful Agbemenya, Simon Mensah, Abass Aryee, Joshua Sarbah.
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  • Customers browse the internet at the Busy Internet internet cafe in Accra, Ghana on Thursday February 1, 2007.
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  • Students use laptops to browse the internet over a wireless network at the Kokrobitey Institute in the town of Kokrobitey, 30km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sunday January 18, 2009. From left to right Patrick Tetteh Tamatey, Reuben Sekpona, Abass Aryee, Nana Ama Bentsi-Enchill, Simon Mensah.
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  • Students use laptops to browse the internet over a wireless network at the Kokrobitey Institute in the town of Kokrobitey, 30km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sunday January 18, 2009. From left to right Reuben Sekpona, Abass Aryee, Nana Ama Bentsi-Enchill, Simon Mensah.
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  • Students use laptops to browse the internet over a wireless network at the Kokrobitey Institute in the town of Kokrobitey, 30km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sunday January 18, 2009. From left to right Joshua Sarbah, Nana Ama Bentsi-Enchill, Kenful Agbemenya, Simon Mensah.
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  • Students use laptops to browse the internet over a wireless network at the Kokrobitey Institute in the town of Kokrobitey, 30km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sunday January 18, 2009. Sitting on the ground are Abass Aryee (L) and Oti Dodoo.
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  • Students use laptops to browse the internet over a wireless network at the Kokrobitey Institute in the town of Kokrobitey, 30km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sunday January 18, 2009. From left to right Joshua Sarbah, Oti Dodoo, Abass Aryee.
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  • Students use laptops to browse the internet over a wireless network at the Kokrobitey Institute in the town of Kokrobitey, 30km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sunday January 18, 2009. From left to right Reuben Sekpona, Patrick Tetteh Tamatey, Kenful Agbemenya, Abass Aryee, Joshua Sarbah, Dana Aama.
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  • Students use laptops to browse the internet over a wireless network at the Kokrobitey Institute in the town of Kokrobitey, 30km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sunday January 18, 2009. From left to right Oti Dodoo, Reuben Sekpona, Patrick Tetteh Tamatey, Kenful Agbemenya, Abass Aryee, Joshua Sarbah.
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  • Students use laptops to browse the internet over a wireless network at the Kokrobitey Institute in the town of Kokrobitey, 30km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sunday January 18, 2009. Clockwise from bottom-left Oti Dodoo, Reuben Sekpona, Kenful Agbemenya, Abass Aryee, Joshua Sarbah, Dana Aama, Simon Mensah, Patrick Tetteh Tamatey.
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  • Students use laptops to browse the internet over a wireless network at the Kokrobitey Institute in the town of Kokrobitey, 30km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sunday January 18, 2009. Clockwise from bottom, Oti Dodoo, Reuben Sekpona, Kenful Agbemenya, Abass Aryee.
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  • Students use laptops to browse the internet over a wireless network at the Kokrobitey Institute in the town of Kokrobitey, 30km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sunday January 18, 2009. From bottom clockwise Patrick Tetteh Tamatey, Reuben Sekpona, Abass Aryee, Nana Ama Bentsi-Enchill, Simon Mensah.
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  • Young men covered with talcum powder (used to make it more difficult for opponents to get a firm grasp) wait for wrestling matches to start during the yearly evala festival in the town of Houde, northern Togo, on Thursday July 12, 2007.<br />
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During the week-long tourney, young men wrestle against peers from their own and other villages. The evala festival is not only a sporting event, but also part of the rites of passage young men from the KabyŽ ethnic group will complete as they become full-grown men. The fighters, called evalo, will wrestle on three consecutive years to show their strength and their worth as they become full members of the community. <br />
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Wrestlers cover themselves with talcum powder to allegedly make it more difficult for their opponent to get a firm grasp. Rubbing hands with dirt is also a popular technique which many believe helps counter the slippery effect of talcum powder. On the eve of the first day of fighting, the father of each evalo will buy a dog for his son to eat. It is believed that the meat of the animal will endow the young man with the strength and courage characteristic to the animal.<br />
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While the wrestling is reserved to young men in their early to mid-twenties, younger boys also take part in unofficial matches as they prepare to become the next evalo. Even though supporters often become infuriated when their fighter is denied the victory they think he deserves, the outcome of the wrestling matches has little importance. Winners celebrate alongside those who are defeated and more than anything else, the evala festival is a social gathering where KabyŽs come to meet each other. Many KabyŽs in the diaspora even come home to attend the event. <br />
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The first day of fighting pits evalos from two halves of a same village against each other. On the next day, fighters from an entire village wrestle against their peers from a neighbor settlement before joining them and facing together a similar group on the third day of the event. After one day
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  • A woman helps young men cover themselves with talcum powder as they prepare for wrestling matches during the yearly evala festival in the town of Houde, northern Togo, on Thursday July 12, 2007. The powder, fighters say, makes it more difficult for their opponent to get a firm grasp.<br />
<br />
During the week-long tourney, young men wrestle against peers from their own and other villages. The evala festival is not only a sporting event, but also part of the rites of passage young men from the KabyŽ ethnic group will complete as they become full-grown men. The fighters, called evalo, will wrestle on three consecutive years to show their strength and their worth as they become full members of the community. <br />
<br />
Wrestlers cover themselves with talcum powder to allegedly make it more difficult for their opponent to get a firm grasp. Rubbing hands with dirt is also a popular technique which many believe helps counter the slippery effect of talcum powder. On the eve of the first day of fighting, the father of each evalo will buy a dog for his son to eat. It is believed that the meat of the animal will endow the young man with the strength and courage characteristic to the animal.<br />
<br />
While the wrestling is reserved to young men in their early to mid-twenties, younger boys also take part in unofficial matches as they prepare to become the next evalo. Even though supporters often become infuriated when their fighter is denied the victory they think he deserves, the outcome of the wrestling matches has little importance. Winners celebrate alongside those who are defeated and more than anything else, the evala festival is a social gathering where KabyŽs come to meet each other. Many KabyŽs in the diaspora even come home to attend the event. <br />
<br />
The first day of fighting pits evalos from two halves of a same village against each other. On the next day, fighters from an entire village wrestle against their peers from a neighbor settlement before joining them and facing together a similar gr
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  • A health worker holds up a guinea worm after pulling it out of the leg of Fatima Sayibu, 4, at the guinea worm case containment center in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. A parasite transmitted through water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body nine months after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 1 meter, it can only be pulled out a few cm every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. Despite a widespread eradication program Ghana has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan..
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  • Jeanne Kahindo, 35, stands in front of her home with her children and the  12 displaced people she shelters in Goma, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday December 14, 2008. All of them come from Kibumba, 40km north of Goma, and have been living with Kahindo for two months. "The people were suffering, under the rain, that's why I offered them to come in", she says. She explains that when someone finds something to eat they bring it back to share it with others. Is it estimated that only 30% of the displaced people in Eastern DRC have found refuge in organized IDP camps. The rest are living in schools, churches, or with host families...
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  • Bandaged leg of a young boy suffering from guinea worm at the guinea worm case containment center in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. A parasite transmitted through water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body nine months after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 1 meter, it can only be pulled out a few cm every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. Despite a widespread eradication program Ghana has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan.
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  • Information sign on guinea worm outside the guinea worm case containment center in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. A parasite transmitted through water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body nine months after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 1 meter, it can only be pulled out a few cm every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. Despite a widespread eradication program Ghana has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan..
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  • Bandaged foot of a boy suffering from guinea worm at the guinea worm case containment center in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. A parasite transmitted through water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body nine months after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 1 meter, it can only be pulled out a few cm every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. Despite a widespread eradication program Ghana has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan..
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  • Assana Mohammed, 10, cries as a health worker extracts a guinea worm her ankle at the guinea worm case containment center in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. A parasite transmitted through water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body nine months after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 1 meter, it can only be pulled out a few cm every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. Despite a widespread eradication program Ghana has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan..
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  • Dawoda Idrissu, 17, sits at the guinea worm case containment center in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. A parasite transmitted through water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body nine months after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 1 meter, it can only be pulled out a few cm every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. Despite a widespread eradication program Ghana has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan..
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  • Amina Abukari, 7, lies on a wooden bench as as a health worker extracts a guinea worm from her buttocks at the guinea worm case containment center in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. A parasite transmitted through water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body nine months after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 1 meter, it can only be pulled out a few cm every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. Despite a widespread eradication program Ghana has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan..
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  • A health worker extracts a guinea worm from the ankle of ten-year-old Assana Mohammed, at the guinea worm case containment center in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. A parasite transmitted through water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body nine months after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 1 meter, it can only be pulled out a few cm every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. Despite a widespread eradication program Ghana has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan..
    GHA07.0309.GUINEAWORM054.jpg
  • A boy with suffering from guinea worm sits at the guinea worm case containment center in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. A parasite transmitted through water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body nine months after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 1 meter, it can only be pulled out a few cm every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. Despite a widespread eradication program Ghana has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan..
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  • Aicha, 18, sits in one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. She's been working as a sex worker for two years. "I don't like this work, but I don't want to depend on someone for money", she says. Some days she earns nothing, other days she might earn 5,000 or 10,000 CFA (20$). "This money is evil", she says. "If you use it to fund a project it will bring back luck." Aicha has never been to school. Standing in the doorway is Lucie, 15, who also works at the brothel.
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  • Aicha, 18, sits in one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. She's been working as a sex worker for two years. "I don't like this work, but I don't want to depend on someone for money", she says. Some days she earns nothing, other days she might earn 5,000 or 10,000 CFA (20$). "This money is evil", she says. "If you use it to fund a project it will bring back luck." Aicha has never been to school.
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  • A girl uses a hoe to spread burning charcoal while another splashes it with water to cool it off at a wood charcoal production site on the outskirts of San Pedro, Bas-Sassandra region, Côte d'Ivoire on Sunday March 4, 2012. Men, women and children - who don't go to school - work here seven days a week.
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  • A boy pours water from a plastic sachet onto hot copper wire to cool it off before handling it near the Agbogboloshie market in Accra, Ghana on Thursday August 21, 2008.
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  • Aicha, 18, sits in one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. She's been working as a sex worker for two years. "I don't like this work, but I don't want to depend on someone for money", she says. Some days she earns nothing, other days she might earn 5,000 or 10,000 CFA (20$). "This money is evil", she says. "If you use it to fund a project it will bring back luck." Aicha has never been to school.
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  • Aicha, 18, sits in one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. She's been working as a sex worker for two years. "I don't like this work, but I don't want to depend on someone for money", she says. Some days she earns nothing, other days she might earn 5,000 or 10,000 CFA (20$). "This money is evil", she says. "If you use it to fund a project it will bring back luck." Aicha has never been to school.
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  • Leader of the House of Lords Baroness Valerie Amos stands in the door of return at the former slave fort of Cape Coast Castle in Cape Coast, Ghana, on Sunday Mar 4, 2007. Amos was visiting on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slave trade, which coincides with Ghana's 50th anniversary of independence. The door of return is the same gateway used by slaves as they left Africa for the New World - it is now being used by descendants of slaves who are returning to Africa.
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  • Togolese refugees stand by newly-built homes 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 at a UNHCR food distribution centre in the Ghanaian Volta region. 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 children in a crowded classroom 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 waiting by the roadside 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 refugee woman and her child 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 boy sets up a mesh filter on top a large barrel before filling it 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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  • Woman pouring rice to separate it from straw and other impurities.
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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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  • Young Togolese boy waiting at a UNHCR food distribution centre in the Ghanaian Volta region. 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 waiting at a UNHCR food distribution centre in the Ghanaian Volta region. 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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  • Man holding refugee id card at a UNHCR food distribution centre in the Ghanaian Volta region. 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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  • Portrait of young Togolese refugee girl waiting at a UNHCR food distribution centre in the Ghanaian Volta region. 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.
    GHA05TogoRefugees0008.jpg
  • Togolese refugees waiting at a UNHCR food distribution centre in the Ghanaian Volta region. 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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  • Young boy sitting on empty sugar bags at a UNHCR food distribution centre in the Ghanaian Volta region. 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 refugee man at a UNHCR registration camp near Aflao, 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 waiting at a UNHCR registration centre in the Ghanaian Volta region. 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 waiting at a UNHCR food distribution centre in the Ghanaian Volta region. 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.
    GHA05TogoRefugees0011.jpg
  • Togolese refugees waiting at a UNHCR food distribution centre in the Ghanaian Volta region. 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.
    GHA05TogoRefugees0012.jpg
  • Togolese refugees at a UNHCR food distribution centre in the Ghanaian Volta region. 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 children in a crowded classroom 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 children in a crowded classroom 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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  • Young togolese boy peeking into a classroom 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 refugee woman and her child 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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  • Aid worker unloading food bags from truck at a UNHCR food distribution centre in the Ghanaian Volta region. 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 waiting at a UNHCR food distribution centre in the Ghanaian Volta region. 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 man teaching in a classroom 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 woman rides a horse at Labadi Beach in Accra, Ghana on Sunday October 8, 2007. Also known as La Pleasure Beach, it is one of the city's most popular hangouts, especially on Sunday afternoons. For a small fee, visitors can ride horse along the ocean.
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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. Fish is a staple in the diet of most Ghanaians: it is estimated that up to 60% of animal protein nationwide is derived from fish products.
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  • A girl stands by the blackboard in a private school in the village of Popoko, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire on Tuesday March 6, 2012. A private school was opened after the public school reached it's maximum capacity.
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  • A woman pours water on hot charcoal to cool it down at a wood charcoal production site on the outskirts of San Pedro, Bas-Sassandra region, Côte d'Ivoire on Sunday March 4, 2012.
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  • Farmer Safietou Goudiaby shakes rice after pounding it to separate the shell from the grain outside her home in the village of Kagnarou, Senegal on Friday May 28, 2010. She says the process takes about two hours.
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  • A girl holds a bucket of water on top of her head to carry back home after she filled it from a handpump in the village of Moglaa, Ghana on Thursday November 11, 2010.
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  • The lifeless child of Aminata Sisay is wrapped in a piece of cloth, waiting for family to come and collect it, at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone on Monday April 26, 2010.
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  • Kadie Josiah, 16, lies in bed as she recovers after a c-section surgery that saved her and her child at the UBC hospital in the town of Mattru Jong, Sierra Leone, on Thursday April 22, 2010. It was her first pregnancy, and she lives 15 kilometers away from the hospital.
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  • Kadie Josiah, 16, lies in bed as she recovers after a c-section surgery that saved her and her child at the UBC hospital in the town of Mattru Jong, Sierra Leone, on Thursday April 22, 2010. It was her first pregnancy, and she lives 15 kilometers away from the hospital.
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  • A displaced woman lifts a jerican after filling it with water from a pipe at the Kibati IDP camp on the outskirts of Goma, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday December 12, 2008
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  • A man looks out of the window of a minibus as it drives through traffic in central Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • A man stands in the door of a bus as it drives through traffic in central Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • A man looks out of the window of a minibus as it drives through traffic in central Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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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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  • Boys stand in a cloud of smoke by burning pieces of plastic near the Agbogboloshie market in Accra, Ghana on Thursday August 21, 2008..Using pieces of plastic from computer casings and foam from old refrigerators, boys build fires to burn plastic off cables that come from computers and other electronics. They recover the copper and sell it for about $4 a kilo.
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  • A woman holds the hand of a child as he watches the waves at Labadi Beach in Accra, Ghana on Sunday October 8, 2007. Also known as La Pleasure Beach, it is one of the city's most popular hangouts, especially on Sunday afternoons.
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  • View of Labadi Beach in Accra, Ghana on Sunday October 8, 2007. Also known as La Pleasure Beach, it is one of the city's most popular hangouts, especially on Sunday afternoons.
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  • View of Labadi Beach in Accra, Ghana on Sunday October 8, 2007. Also known as La Pleasure Beach, it is one of the city's most popular hangouts, especially on Sunday afternoons.
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  • View of Labadi Beach in Accra, Ghana on Sunday October 8, 2007. Also known as La Pleasure Beach, it is one of the city's most popular hangouts, especially on Sunday afternoons.
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  • View of Labadi Beach in Accra, Ghana on Sunday October 8, 2007. Also known as La Pleasure Beach, it is one of the city's most popular hangouts, especially on Sunday afternoons.
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  • The lifeless child of Aminata Sisay, who says she's 15, lies in a metal bin after it was removed from her womb during a c-section operation at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone on Monday April 26, 2010. Aminata waited too long before coming to the hospital, and lost her child, who needed to be removed from her womb through surgery.
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  • A nurse stands next to the bed of Nafisatu Bah, 19, who recovers aftera c-section surgery at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone on Monday April 26, 2010. It was Nafisatu's first pregnancy.
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  • A man tries to control the crowd of passengers on a ferry as it approaches the terminal in Makango, northern Ghana on Thursday March 26, 2009.
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  • A man looks out of the window of a minibus as it drives through traffic in central Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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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 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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  • 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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  • Dora Amuzu and her sons Magnus Apedo, 10 (left) and Kwaku, 7 sit outside their home in the town of Amasaman, Ghana on Thursday January 17, 2008. Albinism is an hereditary genetic disorder characterized by a lack of pigmentation in the skin and eyes. It only manifests itself in children when both parents - albino or not - carry the albinism gene.
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  • View of Labadi Beach in Accra, Ghana on Sunday October 8, 2007. Also known as La Pleasure Beach, it is one of the city's most popular hangouts, especially on Sunday afternoons.
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  • View of Labadi Beach in Accra, Ghana on Sunday October 8, 2007. Also known as La Pleasure Beach, it is one of the city's most popular hangouts, especially on Sunday afternoons.
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  • View of Labadi Beach in Accra, Ghana on Sunday October 8, 2007. Also known as La Pleasure Beach, it is one of the city's most popular hangouts, especially on Sunday afternoons.
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