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  • A group of men carry a motorcycle across an overflowing river near the town of Amakpa, Benin on Tuesday September 18, 2007. International NGO Plan said at least 50 villages in Benin had been destroyed by floods that affected at least 1.5 million people in 18 countries across Africa.
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  • A group of men carry a motorcycle across an overflowing river near the town of Amakpa, Benin on Tuesday September 18, 2007. International NGO Plan said at least 50 villages in Benin had been destroyed by floods that affected at least 1.5 million people in 18 countries across Africa.
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  • Fisherman carrying ropes on his head on a beach near Aflao.
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  • Young Ghanaian boy carrying basket on his head.
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  • A boy carries a jerrican of water on his head in the Clara Town slum of Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Thursday April 5, 2012.
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  • A girl carries a bucket of water she just filled from a well in the West Point slum in Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
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  • A woman carries a suitcase she purchased at a non-food item fair in the Miketo IDP settlement, Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday February 19, 2012. Displaced people who have lost most of their belongings as they fleed their homes receive coupons their can exchange for goods at a fair held in partnership with local traders.
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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 man carries a bicycle on his shoulder across an overflowing river near the town of Amakpa, Benin on Tuesday September 18, 2007.
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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 a load on top of her head in N'Djamena, Chad on Thursday June 10, 2010.
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  • An internally displaced boy carries a mattress on his head in 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 carries another on his back across an overflowing river near the town of Amakpa, Benin on Tuesday September 18, 2007.
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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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  • Refugee women from Central African Republic in the village of Tongo Gandima, near Bertoua, Cameroon, on Tuesday September 15, 2009.
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  • Papaya harvest at Dansak Farms, Nsawam, Ghana.
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  • Girls carry away a container they just had filled during a UNICEF-sponsored drinking water distribution to flood victims in Cotonou, Benin on Sunday October 24, 2010. The city's water network has been rendered unusable in flooded parts of the city, and many people rely on such water distributions that are carried out by the fire service.
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  • Boys try to direct chicken to enter a basket used to carry the birds near the Anglican Primary School in the Savelugu-Nanton district, northern Ghana on Wednesday June 6, 2007. One of the boys carries the chickens from home in the basket, then releases them near the school where they will roam freely until he comes to pick them up after class..
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  • A group of girls carry water buckets on their heads as they walk back home from a borehole situated 15 minutes away from the village of Ying, in the Savelugu-Nanton district, northern Ghana on Monday June 4, 2007.
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  • A girl balances buckets of water on both ends of a stick as prepares to carry them back home from a UNICEF-sponsored pump in the village of Game, Guera province, Chad on Tuesday October 16, 2012.
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  • Girls carry buckets of water they just filled froma UNICEF-sponsored, pedal-activated pump in the village of Game, Guera province, Chad on Tuesday October 16, 2012.
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  • Girls balance buckets of water on both ends of a stick as they prepare to carry them back home from a UNICEF-sponsored pump in the village of Game, Guera province, Chad on Tuesday October 16, 2012.
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  • Girls balance buckets of water on both ends of a stick as they prepare to carry them back home from a UNICEF-sponsored pump in the village of Game, Guera province, Chad on Tuesday October 16, 2012.
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  • Women carry water buckets on their heads as they walk back home from 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 group of girls carry water buckets on their heads as they walk back home from a borehole situated 15 minutes away from the village of Ying, in the Savelugu-Nanton district, northern Ghana on Monday June 4, 2007.
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  • A group of girls carry water buckets on their heads as they walk back home from a borehole situated 15 minutes away from the village of Ying, in the Savelugu-Nanton district, northern Ghana on Monday June 4, 2007.
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  • A group of girls carry water buckets on their heads as they walk back home from a borehole situated 15 minutes away from the village of Ying, in the Savelugu-Nanton district, northern Ghana on Monday June 4, 2007.
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  • A group of girls carry containers on their head as they head out to fetch water after coming home from school in the village of Ying, in the Savelugu-Nanton district, northern Ghana on Monday June 4, 2007..
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  • A girl balances water buckets on both ends of a stick as she prepares to carry them home from a UNICEF-sponsored, pedal-activated pump in the village of Game, Guera province, Chad on Tuesday October 16, 2012.
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  • A girl balances water buckets on both ends of a stick as she prepares to carry them home from a UNICEF-sponsored, pedal-activated pump in the village of Game, Guera province, Chad on Tuesday October 16, 2012.
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  • Children prepare to carry jericans of water back home in Goma, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday December 15, 2008. Goma's Majengo neighborhood is almost entirely built on lava, after the nearby volcano erupted in 2002. As a result, there is no working water supply network, and residents, often children, must sometimes walk several kilometers to go buy water from tanks spread around the area.
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  • Mesh filters use to prevent guinea worm lay on the ground while two boys drive the donkey-pulled cart they use to carry large barrels of 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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  • Baimba Sesay and his cousin Ibrahim Sesay, both 15, in the town of Makeni, Sierra Leone, on Friday February 27, 2009. The boys were arrested and spent 6 days in jail after being caught stealing goods from a catholic mission. They say friends came to ask them for help to carry the goods, but that they were unaware that they were in fact stealing them. When the police showed up, their friends ran away, but Baimba and Sesay, not knowing what was going on, stayed put and got caught. Their family paid the bail, both boys are now attending school.
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  • Young men carry drums on top of their heads during the parade held on the occasion of the annual Oguaa Fetu Afahye Festival in Cape Coast, Ghana on Saturday September 6, 2008.
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  • A group of girls carry water buckets on their heads as they walk back home from a borehole situated 15 minutes away from the village of Ying, in the Savelugu-Nanton district, northern Ghana on Monday June 4, 2007.
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  • Workers carry UNICEF-sponsored domestic kits to be distributed to displaced populations across eastern DRC at a UNICEF depot in Goma, Eastern Democratic of Congo on Monday December 15, 2008. The kits contain blankets, a mosquito net, fabric, tarp, soap, cookware, floor mats and a jerican.
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  • Two girls hold hands while they carry a bucket in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • Health workers carry out a house-to-house survey to make sure children were vaccinated in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Health workers carry out a house-to-house survey to make sure children were vaccinated in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Health workers carry out a house-to-house survey to make sure children were vaccinated in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Health workers carry out a house-to-house survey to make sure children were vaccinated in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Health workers carry out a house-to-house survey to make sure children were vaccinated in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Health workers carry out a house-to-house survey to make sure children were vaccinated in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Health workers carry out a house-to-house survey to make sure children were vaccinated in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Health workers carry out a house-to-house survey to make sure children were vaccinated in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Tanic Kouakou, 8, (R) and some friends carry palm nuts on their fathers cocoa plantation near the town of Moussadougou, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire on Monday March 5, 2012. Tanic goes school but helps his father on his off days.
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  • Boys carry palm nuts on a cocoa plantation near the town of Moussadougou, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire on Monday March 5, 2012.
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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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  • A health pulls ice packs from a freezer to fills ice boxes that will be used to carry polio vaccines at the beginning of a second day of vaccination during a national polio immunization execise in Savelugu, northern Ghana on Friday March 27, 2009.
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  • Rafael Yeboah, 13, waits to fill his plastic containers with water from a tap in a poor neighborhood of Accra, Ghana's capital, on Monday Mar 5, 2007. Only when Rafael will have finished transporting the water home will he be able to head to school. Most parts of the city are plagued with intermittent water shortages, and people buy water from the few running taps. They then have to carry the containers to their homes over distances that often reach several hundred meters. Meanwhile, Ghana is preparing to celebrate its 50 years of independence from the UK on March 6th.
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  • Young girls from the Krobo tribal group hold calabashes used to carry rain water on their heads as they undergo puberty rites - locally called dipo - in Somanya, Eastern Region, Ghana.
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  • Health workers carry out a house-to-house survey to make sure children were vaccinated in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Health workers carry out a house-to-house survey to make sure children were vaccinated in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Health workers carry out a house-to-house survey to make sure children were vaccinated in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Health workers carry out a house-to-house survey to make sure children were vaccinated in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Health workers carry out a house-to-house survey to make sure children were vaccinated in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Health workers carry out a house-to-house survey to make sure children were vaccinated in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Children stand by while health workers carry out a house-to-house survey to make sure they were vaccinated in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Health workers carry out a house-to-house survey to make sure children were vaccinated in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Health workers carry out a house-to-house survey to make sure children were vaccinated in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Firimin Kouassi, 13, (L) and some cousins and friends carry palm nuts on their Firimin's uncle's cocoa plantation near the town of Moussadougou, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire on Monday March 5, 2012. Firimin decided to stop going to school.
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  • A man drives a group of donkeys who carry large loads of hay on their backs in Mao, Kanem region, Chad on Monday February 13, 2012.
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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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  • 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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  • Children carry jericans of water on their backs in the Mugunga II IDP camp on the outskirts of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Wednesday December 17, 2008.
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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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  • A man fills plastic containers with water from a tap in a poor neighborhood of Accra, Ghana's capital, on Monday Mar 5, 2007. Most parts of the city are plagued with intermittent water shortages, and people buy water from the few running taps. They then have to carry the containers to their homes over distances that often reach several hundred meters. Meanwhile, Ghana is preparing to celebrate its 50 years of independence from the UK on March 6th.
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  • Sarah Adjrokor, 18, fills plastic containers with water from a tap in a poor neighborhood of Accra, Ghana's capital, on Monday Mar 5, 2007. Most parts of the city are plagued with intermittent water shortages, and people buy water from the few running taps. They then have to carry the containers to their homes over distances that often reach several hundred meters. Meanwhile, Ghana is preparing to celebrate its 50 years of independence from the UK on March 6th.
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  • Health workers carry out a house-to-house survey to make sure children were vaccinated in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Health workers carry out a house-to-house survey to make sure children were vaccinated in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Large tractor carrying pienapple crates in warehouse.
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  • Large tractor carrying pienapple crates in warehouse.
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  • Large tractor carrying pienapple crates in warehouse.
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  • Health workers carrying cold boxes arrive back at the health center after carrying out house-to-house vaccination in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Health workers unpack vaccines from cold boxes as they arrive back at the health center after carrying out house-to-house vaccination in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Community Health Nurse Isatu Djalloh carries two-year-old Blackie on her lap as he's transported aboard an emergency speedboat from the village of Yoni, on Sherbro Island, to the district hospital in Bonthe, Sierra Leone on Thursday April 22, 2010. Suffering from severe dehydration, the boy needed to be referred to the district hospital.
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  • A woman carries a bucket of water atop her head and her child on her back.
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  • A woman carrying her child on her back walks down a street in central Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • Health workers unpack vaccines from cold boxes as they arrive back at the health center after carrying out house-to-house vaccination in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Health workers unpack vaccines from cold boxes as they arrive back at the health center after carrying out house-to-house vaccination in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Ghana: 25 April 2012, A woman carries her daughter on her back as she waits to have her weighed and vaccinated at the Dodowa new town health outreach point in Dodowa.The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership that brings together developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.  Set up in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI's mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
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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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  • Habsita Moussa, 30, carries her son Abdelnassir Haroun, 6 mo., as she walks back home from a meeting at CELIAF in Mongo, Guera province, Chad on Wednesday October 17, 2012.
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  • A girl waits to fill a container during a UNICEF-sponsored drinking water distribution to flood victims in Cotonou, Benin on Sunday October 24, 2010. The city's water network has been rendered unusable in flooded parts of the city, and many people rely on such water distributions that are carried out by the fire service..
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  • A child carrying a bucket full of beans walks across the street in the village of Portela, below 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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  • A health worker carrying polio vaccines walks through the village of Wantugu, northern Ghana, during a national polio immunization exercise on Friday March 27, 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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  • Chief Nana Kweku Ennu III sits in a palaquin carried by followers during the parade held on the occasion of the annual Oguaa Fetu Afahye Festival in Cape Coast, Ghana on Saturday September 6, 2008..
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  • King Nana Kodwo Conduah VI, from the nearby town of Elmina, stands in a palanquin carried by supporters during the parade held on the occasion of the annual Oguaa Fetu Afahye Festival in Cape Coast, Ghana on Saturday September 6, 2008.
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  • One of four porters carrying a palanquin occupied by a traditional chief during the parade held on the occasion of the annual Oguaa Fetu Afahye Festival in Cape Coast, Ghana on Saturday September 6, 2008..
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  • A boy carries a load of cables and wires from computers and other electronics as he prepares to set them on fire to recover copper near the Agbogboloshie market in Accra, Ghana on Thursday August 21, 2008.
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  • A girl carries a younger child on her back in the village of Nyologu, northern Ghana, on Wednesday June 6, 2007.
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  • Pick up truck carrying a large load of small tree branches in Tamale, northern Ghana, on Sunday June 3, 2007.
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  • A farm worker carries a basket full of cocoa pods on his head at a farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007.
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  • A nurse carries Kambou Sansan, 4, a malnourished boy, during a visit at the Panzarani health center in the village of Panzarani, Zanzan region, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday November 25, 2011.
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  • A woman carrying a child on her back pushes her bicycle as she walks down the main road in Katiola, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday July 13, 2013.
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  • Christine Koné, 26, carries a cooking pot as she walk out of her home in the town of Katiola, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday July 12, 2013. Christine underwent FGM as a child and now suffers from incontinence. She says she would never allow her daughter to undergo the procedure.
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  • Health workers unpack vaccines from cold boxes as they arrive back at the health center after carrying out house-to-house vaccination in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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  • Health workers unpack vaccines from cold boxes as they arrive back at the health center after carrying out house-to-house vaccination in San Esteban, Honduras on Thursday April 25, 2013.
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