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An endangered cheetah155 viewsAn endangered cheetah was photographed as part of the first systematic camera survey across the central Sahara in North Africa in this image released Tuesday by the Zoological Society of London. (Farid Belbachir/Zoological Society of London/OPNA/Reuters)
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Italy’s Daniele De Rossi, right, tackled Jay DeMerit of the U.S105 viewsItaly’s Daniele De Rossi, right, tackled Jay DeMerit of the U.S during their Confederations Cup soccer match at the Loftus Versfeld stadium in Pretoria, South Africa, on Monday.(Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)
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A child peeped from under an umbrella90 viewsA child peeped from under an umbrella during a protest in Rabat, Morocco, on Monday. More than 100 African refugees staged a sit-in in front of the High Commission for Refugees in the Moroccan capital to demand for visas to enter Europe.(Rafael Marchante/Reuters)
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A man rested during a protest in Rabat207 viewsA man rested during a protest in Rabat, Morocco, Monday. More than 100 African refugees staged a sit-in in front of the High Commission for Refugees in Rabat to demand visas to enter Europe.(Rafael Marchante/Reuters)
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DETAIL OF A VILLAGE NEAR TAHOUA, Niger. By Yann Arthus Bertrand41 viewsThis village near Tahoua, in southwestern Niger, shows typical Hausa architecture: cubelike houses of banco (a mixture of earth and vegetal fibers), alongside imposing ovoid-shaped grain storehouses. The Hausa people, who make up 53 percent of the country’s population, are farmers, but they are most renowned for their craftwork and trade. The Hausa city-states in northern Nigeria have had commerce with numerous African countries for several centuries. Today the region of Tahoua is crossed by a road that leads northward, commonly called the “uranium route.” A vein of uranium was discovered in 1965 in the ground below the Air Massif, and mines in the northern town of Arlit yield nearly 3,000 tons of uranium each year, or about 10 percent of the world output, making Niger the third world producer.
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Morocco Africa by sknotcrime16 views
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BOAT RUN AGROUND ON THE BEACH NEAR LÜDERITZ, Namibia. By Yann Arthus Bertrand387 viewsThe Benguela Current, moves north from the Antarctic and follows the coast of Namibia, where beaches alternate with reefs and shallows. The current causes a strong tide, violent turbulence, and a thick fog that conceals the contours of the coast. Thus, it is a passage feared by navigators sailing by on the way to the Cape of Good Hope, at the southern tip of Africa. Since 1846 Portuguese seafarers have called the shores “the sands of hell,” and the northern part of the coast was given the evocative name Skeleton Coast in 1933. The rusted wreckage of boats as well as airplanes and all-terrain vehicles, along with skeletal remains of cetaceans (aquatic mammals such as whales) and even humans, are strewn along this melancholy shoreline. The wreckage is sometimes mired in the sand hundreds of yards from the water, as seen here near the city of Lüderitz, testifying to the violence of shipwreck. Although advancing rescue technology allows more lives to be saved than fifty years ago, the cost paid on the seas around the globe has been heavy: at least 65 fishing boats disappear daily around the world, and each week two large vessels are shipwrecked.
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Etiopia176 views
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DWELLINGS ON AN ISLET IN THE RIVER NIGER, between Bourem and Gao, Mali. By Yann Arthus Bertrand39 viewsThe river Niger takes its name from the Tuareg expression “egerou n-igereou,v which means “river of rivers.” In giving it this name, the nomads meant to emphasize the inestimable value of this river, which ?ows through Mali’s Saharan sands. Tracing a great loop through West Africa, this “Western Nile” ?oods every year, between July and December. But the local people are not alarmed, for they have adapted their lives to this seasonal ?uctuation and are well aware of the ?oods’ importance in fertilizing the soil and helping ?sh to breed. They do not attempt to build embankments along the river but are content instead to build their houses on land that is not prone to ?ooding. They prefer to live on togué, hillocks whose tops remain above water—like islets—when the15 river is in ?ood. What does worry them is drought, which has reduced the river’s ?oods over the last 30 years.
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VILLAGE OF ARAOUANE, north of Timbuktu, Mali. By Yann Arthus Bertrand42 viewsIn the Saharan portion of Mali, 168 miles (270 km) north of Timbuktu, the village of Araouane stands on the great caravan route, once heavily traveled, linking the north of the country with Mauritania. Araouane’s numerous wells, which contributed to its ancient prosperity, still attract nomad campers to its periphery. Little by little, however, its fortlike houses, in which the absence of windows testi?es to the permanent struggle against heat and sand, are being swallowed up by the sand dunes driven by the winds, which are erasing the village. The Sahara is the largest warm desert on Earth, extending for 3.5 million square miles (9 million km2), in eleven African countries. It consists of not only sand but also regs (gravel plains from which wind has eroded the sand), large stony plateaus (tassilis and hamadas), and high mountain ranges (Ahaggar, Aïr, Tibesti); these ranges take up 20 percent of its area. Scattered throughout this hostile, rigorous environment, the towns and villages of the Sahara contain 1.5 million people.
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MARKET NEAR THE NATIONAL RESERVE OF MASAI MARA, Kenya. By Yann Arthus Bertrand67 viewsBetween the national reserve of Masai Mara and Lake Victoria in Kenya, near the village of Lolgorien, a small rural market is regularly held. Sedentary or nomadic Masai villagers of the region think nothing of traveling many miles to reach it. Presented on mats on the ground, the merchandise on sale is mostly used clothing from charitable associations—like many other goods in poor countries, they were donated by residents of wealthier countries. The gulf between rich and poor nations continues to grow: the gross national product (GNP) is approximately 17,000 dollars per person in Europe, whereas it is only 340 dollars per person in Kenya.
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Rino by Litvak.I61 views
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