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YEAR IN REVIEW 2007
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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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| An 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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