Ethnic
Indians are sprayed with water by riot police during a street protest
in Kuala Lumpur, in November. They were trying to stage a rally that
had been banned amid government fears it would stir racial hatred. (AP
photo/Vincent Thian)
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| Ghanaian
President John Kufuor waves during a celebration to mark Ghana’s 50
years of Independence at the Independence Square in Accra, Ghana, in
March. (AP photo/Olivier Asselin) |
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African Union soldier gives bread to two women carrying collected
firewood while they pass by an AU base at the outskirts of the West
Darfur town of Murnei, Sudan, in April. Pooling their money to rent a
donkey cart, the seven Darfur women hoped to venture outside Kalma
refugee camp to gather firewood for cash to feed their families.
Instead, in a wooded area just a few hours’ walk away, they were
gang-raped, beaten and robbed by Arab militiamen. (AP photo/Nasser
Nasser) |
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| Liberian
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf addresses the audience at Harvard
University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in this September
2006 file photo. Since taking office in January 2006, the
Harvard-educated Sirleaf has won the praise of the United Nations, the
European Union and the United States (she recently won the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, the highest nation’s civilian award). However, some
in her nation remain wary of her ties to the World Bank and her early
support, later recanted, for former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor.
(Banner file photo) |
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Demonstrators
march in support of opposition-aligned television station, Radio
Caracas Television, RCTV, in Caracas, in May. The demonstrators protest
against President Hugo Chavez’s decision not to renew the broadcast
license of the TV station that was about to expire. (AP photo/Fernando
Llano)
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Former
South African President Nelson Mandela and his wife, Graça Machel
(right), arrive at the Nelson Mandela 46664 World AIDS Day Concert, in
Johannesburg, South Africa, in December. (AP photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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| South
African President Thabo Mbeki lost the African National Congress
leadership vote to Jacob Zuma in December. Mbeki still doubts that HIV
causes AIDS and believes the pandemic is being exaggerated for racist
and monetary purposes, according to a new biography. (AP
Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File) |
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