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Woman sits outside a shed as she waits for food rations at IDP camp on the outskirts of Maiduguri

A DIM OUTLOOK

Nigeria has become the poverty capital of the world

World Cup - Group H - Poland vs Senegal

TERANGA LIONS

How Senegal became a soccer fan favorite at World Cup 2018

From the digital catalogue supplied by Stephan Welz & Co on the discovery and auction of Sir Peter Paul Ruben's Portrait of a Gentleman.

STASHED BAROQUE

A masterpiece by one of Europe’s most influential Baroque painters has been found in South Africa

Township residents flee from tear gas fired by police during clashes between ANC and Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party supporters near a Zulu worker’s hostel in Soweto, South Africa, March 29, 1994. Tensions ran high a day after ANC security guards opened fire on protesting Zulus outside the ANC headquarters in downtown Johannesburg on Monday killing nine. The IFP are opposed to next months all race general elections. (AP Photo/Joao Silva)

CHILDREN OF WAR

South Africa’s forgotten child soldiers have grown into traumatized adults

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