fyeahafrica:

Kinyarwanda Trailer

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Part 2 this one is compelling

 #talktoaniraqi missing perspective all week

fyeahafrica:

Elephant orphans form intense bonds with their caregivers and vice versa. “It’s not for the wages,” explains one veteran keeper. “The more you’re with them, the more you satisfy yourself. You just love them.”

Photograph by Michael Nichols

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jordskorpe:

touareg at Ait Ben Haddou, Morocco.  

Just love these colors.

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legrandcirque:

A woman at Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s African hospital. Photograph by W. Eugene Smith. Gabon, 1954.

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Muslim clerics walk in the dust on the dirt road outside Dadaab, eastern Kenya, 100 kms (60 miles) from the Somali border, Sunday Aug. 7, 2011. The drought and famine in the horn of Africa has killed more than 29,000 children under the age of 5 years in the last 90 days in southern Somalia alone, according to U.S. estimates. The U.N. says 640,000 Somali children are acutely malnourished, suggesting the death toll of small children will rise. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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theegyptianculture:

Fawanees Ramadan by Marwa Morgan on Flickr.

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Those are Ramadan lanterns “Fawanees Ramadan”…one of the old traditional symbols for the holy month of Ramadan.

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Shark Infested! Beaches With Sharks - Photo Gallery - LIFE →

In the Caribbean, the king of shark attacks is Cuba, which has seen 14 confirmed shark attacks, a whopping 10 of them fatal. There haven’t been any deaths by shark since 1945, though, so maybe Fidel’s doing something right.

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fyeahafrica:

An Amnesty International mission delegate’s fingers covered in oil from an oil spill near Ikarama. This photograph was taken eight months after the spill. Experts who studied video footage of the two spills in Ogoniland say they could together be as large as the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska.

Photograph: Amnesty International UK

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