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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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  • Refugees from Central African Republic wait for food distribution at the Garga Sarali integrated health center in the town of Garga Sarali, near Bertoua, Cameroon, on Tuesday September 15, 2009..
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  • Refugees from Central African Republic wait in line for food distribution at the Garga Sarali integrated health center in the town of Garga Sarali, near Bertoua, Cameroon, on Tuesday September 15, 2009.
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  • A malnourished refugee child from Central African Republic eats Plumpy Nut therapeutic food while sitting on her mothers's lap at the Garga Sarali integrated health center in the town of Garga Sarali, near Bertoua, Cameroon, on Tuesday September 15, 2009.
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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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  • 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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  • Theresa Kollie, 24, holds her daughter Musu Kollor, 11 months old, who suffers from malnutrition, as she receives a weekly supply of ready-to-eat therapeutic food at the Slipway clinic in Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
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  • Refugees from Central African Republic wait for food distribution at the Garga Sarali integrated health center in the town of Garga Sarali, near Bertoua, Cameroon, on Tuesday September 15, 2009.
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  • A refugee woman from Central African Republic holds a card she uses to receive food rations at the Garga Sarali integrated health center in the town of Garga Sarali, near Bertoua, Cameroon, on Tuesday September 15, 2009.
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  • A refugee woman from Central African Republic waits during food distribution at the Garga Sarali integrated health center in the town of Garga Sarali, near Bertoua, Cameroon, on Tuesday September 15, 2009.
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  • Refugees from Central African Republic wait in line for food distribution at the Garga Sarali integrated health center in the town of Garga Sarali, near Bertoua, Cameroon, on Tuesday September 15, 2009.
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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 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 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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  • Chacklie Soman, 17, holds the hand of her son Leo Karsor, 8 months, who is malnourished, while feeding him ready-to-eat therapeutic food at the Pipeline health center in Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
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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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  • Fish is laid out for sale at the market in Elmina, about 130km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday April 9, 2009. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, nearly a billion people worldwide depend on fish as their primary source of protein, and  120 million people depend on fishing for all or part of their income, with both kinds of dependence highest in the developing world.
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  • A woman cooks outside the basic shelter where she lives with her family at the Miketo IDP settlement, Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday February 19, 2012.
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  • A woman breastfeeds her child. Northern Ghana, Thursday November 13, 2008.
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  • A woman breastfeeds her child. Northern Ghana, Thursday November 13, 2008.
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  • A woman and her child prepare attieke, a local staple made of cassava, in Tano Akakro, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday June 20, 2009.
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  • Patience Karkuah, 21, breast feeds her baby girl, who was born just a few hours ago, at the Redemption hospital in Monrovia, Montserrado country, Liberia  on Wednesday April 4, 2012.
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  • Fish cooks in a pot at the home of Edith Saysay in the village of Jenneh, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. As part of a UNICEF sponsored social cash transfer programme, Edith and her family receive 2650 Liberian dollars (approx. 36 USD) per month. The money has allowed her to buy cassava from which she makes fufu that she then sells for profit. She also uses some of the money to send all of her seven children to school. Before joining the programme, only 3  of her children attended school.
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  • A girl sits next to a plastic container filled with mangoes in the West Point slum in Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
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  • A woman lays out fish to somke in the West Point slum of Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
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  • Shea butter in a large barrel at "La Maison du Karité" shea processing center in Siby, near Bamako, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • A girl bites on a metal spoon.
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  • A woman breastfeeds her child. Northern Ghana, Thursday November 13, 2008.
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  • A woman breastfeeds her child. Northern Ghana, Thursday November 13, 2008.
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  • Child being breast fed by his mother. Northern Ghana, Thursday November 13, 2008.
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  • Fishing boats in the harbor of Elmina, about 130km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday April 9, 2009. Global fish stocks are running low; the advocacy group Environmental Justice Foundation says fisheries are in deep decline and could collapse within 50 years if current trends continue. Developing countries like Ghana are among the crisis' first victims.
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  • Men and boys sort nets after returning from fishing at sea at the harbor in Elmina, about 130km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday April 9, 2009. Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, losses due to illegal, unregulated or unreported fishing are estimated at US$1 billion, roughly a quarter of Africa's total yearly fisheries exports.
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  • Fish is laid out for sale at the market in Elmina, about 130km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday April 9, 2009.
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  • Fish and crustaceans lay in a bucket after being brought back from sea by fishermen in Cape Coast roughly 120km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday April 9, 2009. Local fishermen say that the volume of fish has severely dwindled in recent years with the increased presence of international fishing vessels in Ghanaian waters.
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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 small fish lies on a wooden fishing boat while fishermen pull in their catch a few hundred meters away from shore near Cape Coast, roughly 120km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday April 9, 2009.
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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.
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  • Fishermen pull nets they had left overnight 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.
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  • Ward supervisor Tengbeh Dukuly teaches Patience Karkuah, 21, how to breast feed her baby girl, who was born just a few hours ago, at the Redemption hospital in Monrovia, Montserrado country, Liberia  on Wednesday April 4, 2012.
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  • Edith Saysay, 35, pours palm oil into a pot as she cooks in the village of Jenneh, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. As part of a UNICEF sponsored social cash transfer programme, Edith and her family receive 2650 Liberian dollars (approx. 36 USD) per month. The money has allowed her to buy cassava from which she makes fufu that she then sells for profit. She also uses some of the money to send all of her seven children to school. Before joining the programme, only 3  of her children attended school.
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  • A girl eats while sitting on a doorstep in the West Point slum of Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
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  • A girl picks up a large smoked fish in the West Point slum of Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
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  • A woman breastfeeds her daughter at the Pipeline health center in Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
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  • Pascaline Bampoky, 30, waters pepper plants in the garden she keeps outside her home in the town of Bignona, Senegal on Friday May 28, 2010.
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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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  • Women beat shea paste by hand to help form emulsion at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • Women beat shea paste by hand to help form emulsion at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • Women beat shea paste by hand to help form emulsion at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • Women filter oil produced from shea nuts at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • Finished shea butter at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • A girl bites on a metal spoon.
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  • A woman breastfeeds her child. Northern Ghana, Thursday November 13, 2008.
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  • A woman breastfeeds her child. Northern Ghana, Thursday November 13, 2008.
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  • A girl sits next to her mother with she breastfeeds her other child. Northern Ghana, Thursday November 13, 2008.
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  • Child being breast fed by his mother. Northern Ghana, Thursday November 13, 2008.
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  • A woman and her child prepare attieke, a local staple made of cassava, in Tano Akakro, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday June 20, 2009.
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  • A woman and her child prepare attieke, a local staple made of cassava, in Tano Akakro, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday June 20, 2009.
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  • A woman prepares attieke, a local staple made of cassava, in Tano Akakro, Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday June 20, 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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  • 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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  • View of the fishing harbor of Elmina, about 130km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday April 9, 2009..
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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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  • Fishermen pull in their boat onto the beach after returning from sea in Cape Coast, roughly 120km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday April 9, 2009..
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  • Fishermen stand on their boats while cleaning nets under the towering former slave fort of Cape Coast castle in Cape Coast, roughly 120km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday April 9, 2009. Cape Coast's slave-trading days may be long gone but the town is no stranger to modern exploitation. Pirate fishing vessels and illegally-operating foreign trawlers are raping the seas, stealing the town's biggest commodity - its fish.
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  • Fishermen head back to shore near Cape Coast, roughly 120km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday April 9, 2009..
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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.
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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. Ghanaian fishermen have for generations harvested the ocean in a small-scale, sustainable way.
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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. The increasing presence of international trawlers in Ghanaian waters not only means more competition to capture a declining fish stock, but larger boats often damage the nets of small-scale fishermen by running through them as they pursue fish.
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  • A fisherman pulls in his catch near Cape Coast, roughly 120km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday April 9, 2009. Small fish get caught in nets left at sea overnight and retrieved by fishermen in the morning. The increasing presence of international trawlers in Ghanaian waters not only means more competition to capture a declining fish stock, but larger boats often damage the nets of small-scale fishermen by running through them as they pursue fish.
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  • Women grind cassava to make gari - a local staple - in the village of Alandohou, Benin on Monday September 10, 2007. The women are part of a unicef-sponsored micro-credit programme that helps them make income to send their children to school.
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  • MD2 variety pineapple on plant.
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  • Ripe MD2 variety pineapple on plant.
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  • Hand holding MD2 variety pineapple.
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  • Hand holding MD2 variety pineapple.
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  • Hand holding Queen Victoria variety pineapple.
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  • Young boy selling sweets, Ghana, West Africa.
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  • Patience Karkuah, 21, breast feeds her baby girl, who was born just a few hours ago, at the Redemption hospital in Monrovia, Montserrado country, Liberia  on Wednesday April 4, 2012.
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  • Baintu, 14, eats a mango outside her home in the village of Jenneh, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012.
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  • Edith Saysay, 35, holds a bowl with dried peppers as she cooks at home in the village of Jenneh, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. As part of a UNICEF sponsored social cash transfer programme, Edith and her family receive 2650 Liberian dollars (approx. 36 USD) per month. The money has allowed her to buy cassava from which she makes fufu that she then sells for profit. She also uses some of the money to send all of her seven children to school. Before joining the programme, only 3  of her children attended school.
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  • Tarah 7, prepares cassava leaves as she cooks with her mother Edith at their home in the village of Jenneh, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. As part of a UNICEF sponsored social cash transfer programme, Tarah and her family receive 2650 Liberian dollars (approx. 36 USD) per month. The money has allowed her to buy cassava from which she makes fufu that she then sells for profit. She also uses some of the money to send all of her seven children to school. Before joining the programme, only 3  of her children attended school.
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  • Jenneh Johnson, 31, feeds her daughter Jusu, 2, at home in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Jenneh has been receiving 2050 Liberian dollars (approx. 28 USD) per month since April 2010 through a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme. She says the money has allowed her to renovate the roof of her home, and send all her children to school. Before joining the programme only two of her children attended school.
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  • Jenneh Johnson, 31, feeds her daughter Jusu, 2, at home in the village of Julijuah, Bomi county, Liberia on Tuesday April 3, 2012. Jenneh has been receiving 2050 Liberian dollars (approx. 28 USD) per month since April 2010 through a UNICEF-sponsored social cash transfer programme. She says the money has allowed her to renovate the roof of her home, and send all her children to school. Before joining the programme only two of her children attended school.
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  • A woman lays out fish to somke in the West Point slum of Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
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  • Fish laid out to be to be smoked in the West Point slum of Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
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  • A woman breastfeeds her daughter at the Pipeline health center in Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
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  • Oumar Diedhiou, 22, weeds a roselle (locally known as bissap) patch in his field near the village of Badiana, Senegal on Saturday May 29, 2010.
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  • Pascaline Bampoky, 30, waters pepper plants in the garden she keeps outside her home in the town of Bignona, Senegal on Friday May 28, 2010.
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  • Women beat shea paste by hand to help form emulsion at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • A girl sits next to her mother with she breastfeeds her other child. Northern Ghana, Thursday November 13, 2008.
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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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  • Fish is laid out for sale at the market in Elmina, about 130km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday April 9, 2009. In Ghana, women are usually responsible for selling the fish caught by their husbands. Some local fishermen complain that the recent reduction in fish populations is not only making it more difficult for them to support their family, but also often a cause of tension and conflict between husband and wife.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Unlike traditional fishing boats, industrial trawlers are required by law to operate in waters deeper than 30 meters. However, local fishermen frequently report that foreign vessels come much closer to the coast, often destroying their nets and causing important damage to the ocean floor by dragging their nets to maximize their catch.
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  • Fishermen set off to work at sunrise on their small traditional wooden boat near Cape Coast, roughly 120km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday April 9, 2009..
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  • Fishermen set off to work at sunrise on their small traditional wooden boat near Cape Coast, roughly 120km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday April 9, 2009. The Ghana Ministry of Fisheries estimates to about 500,000 the number of fishermen and fishmongers in Ghana. Up to 2 million people - nearly 10 percent of the country's population  - make a living from professions - such as canoe-building - dependent on the fishing industry.
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  • A mother breast feeds her child at the Adja-Ouere community health center in the village of Adja-Ouere, Benin and head out to remote villages to vaccinate children on Friday September 14, 2007.
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