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Girls preparing food during the starvation crisis in Niger.
Girls preparing food during the starvation crisis in Niger.
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SYND 6 7 78 DROUGHT ADVANCE OF THE SAHARA DESERT
The Sahara Desert is growing at the rate of a quarter of a million acres a year. Successive droughts mean the desert sands are engulfing previously arable land to the south, mainly in Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan.One...
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CAN687 CANADIAN EMBASSY OPENS IN THE HEART OF FRANCOPHONE AFRICA
Canadian government attempts to expand its influence in the Francophone world, opens an embassy in Abidjan.
1. mcu officials
2. ms officers speak to crowd
3. mcu African dignitary and officers
4. notables, pan right to dignitary
5. ws...
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Germany - Co2 Emissions Meter, China - Xinjiang Oil, Nigeria - Oil, Brazil: Rainforest Animals, Thailand: Rainforest
Germany - CO2 Emissions meter
Berlin - 31 March 1995 and file
1. Large CO2 emission meter set up by Friends of the Earth in city centre
China - Xinjiang Oil
Desert in Xinjiang Province - 26 May 1995
1. WS truck riding, oil wells in...
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LIB 24-2-72 COVERAGE OF THE ASSERTS TRIAL
Coverage of the Asserts trial in Accra, Ghana.
1. ms of sign "Ministry of Defence" and a cannon
2. vs of people arriving at court some of them wearing traditional tribal dress
3. vs of the interior of the court with vs of the people...
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Preparations on eve of presidential and parliamentary elections
1. Wide of polling station
2. Empty ballot boxes being loaded onto pick-up truck
3. Truck with boxes
4. Close up, writing on truck (English: "UN/Donors Support to Sierra Leone, UNDP Project"), pull out
5. Truck drives off with ballot...
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Guinea - Spread of deadly Ebola virus to Guinea capital raises fears; at least 70 dead
Spread of deadly Ebola virus to Guinea capital raises fears; at least 70 dead
Conakry - 29 Mar 2014
1. Wide exterior shot of China Guinea Cooperation hospital, in Kepi area of Conakry, where Ebola patient died on 17 March
2. Wide of...
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Training to care for Ebola patients
Health care professionals practice how to care for patients with the deadly Ebola virus ahead of their deployment to West Africa. The 'patients' are dummies but the workers are in full protective gear.
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SYND 12 5 68 PEOPLE PROTEST IN LAGOS AGAINST NIGERIAN DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY IN BIAFRA
People demonstrate in Lagos against the Nigerian destruction of property in Port Harcourt, capital of the Rivers State, now part of secessionist Biafra.
1. ms placards, pan
2. various cu of placards
3. ms protesters chanting
4. mcu...
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CAN902 PREPARATIONS FOR TRADE FAIR IN ACCRA
Preparations get underway for Ghanaian International Trade Fair.
1. ws pan building site for trade fair
2. ws site of pavilion pan to sign 'timber'
3. ms pan from Bamboo House to Kumasi Brewery Ltd
4. ls 'African Pavilion'
5. ws...
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CLEAN : King Mohammed VI of Morocco
King Mohammed VI of Morocco arrived in Dakar Friday as part of his tour of francophone countries in West Africa including Ivory Coast and Gabon. CLEAN : King Mohammed VI of Morocco on March 15, 2013 in Dakar, Senegal (Footage by AFPTV...
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CLEAN : Macron arrives in Cameroon on first leg of west Africa trip
President Emmanuel Macron arrived late Monday in Cameroon at the start of a three-nation tour of western Africa as he seeks to reboot France's post-colonial relationship with the continent
(Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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SYND 06 10 67 PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA TUBMAN STOPS OVER IN GHANA
Liberian President William Tubman, head of OAU (Organisation of African Unity) Nigeria peace mission, stops over in Ghana. He has a meeting with the President of Ghana Joseph Arthur Ankrah.
1. ms Tubman arrives and is greeted by...
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SYND 12 7 75 MEXICAN PRESIDENT MEETS PRESIDENT SENGHOR
Mexican President Luis EcheverrÄżËa meets President Leopold Senghor of Senegal
1. ms Echeverria and Senghor seated
2. mcu Echeverria
3. mcu Senghor
4. ms Echeverria and Senghor seated
5. ms conference table, Senegalese officials
6. ws...
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SYND 28 8 68 NEW COORDINATION CENTRE SET UP BY INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS
The International Red Cross has set up a co-ordination centre in Lagos, says Nigerian Red Cross Chief Ade Ojo.
1. ms exterior of building
2. mcu sign Nigerian Red Cross Coordination Centre
3. ms Red Cross officials with chief Ojo
4....
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A U.S. cargo vessel carrying thousands of tons of Ebola relief supplies docked at the Liberian port of Buchanan, part of international measures to combat the deadly disease. (Oct. 27)
A US cargo vessel carrying thousands of tons of Ebola relief supplies docked at the Liberian port of Buchanan, part of international measures to combat the deadly disease.
Sydney Harris, Commander of Transportation of the US government's...
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SYND 22-12-72 GHANEAN HEAD OFSTATE ACHEAMPONG OPENS HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER STATION IN AKOSOMO
Ghanean Head of State Ignatius Kutu Acheampong officially opens Akosomo hydro electric power plant.
1. gv Acheampong and others come to platform and sit down2. cu Acheampong 3. ms officials seated4. cu official 5. ms tribal Chiefs...
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SYND 28 6 78 WEST GERMAN CHANCELLOR SCHMIDT LAYS WREATH AT CENOTAPH IN LAGOS
The West German Chencellor Helmut Schmidt lays a wreath at the Cenotaph in Lagos. He also visits Tin Can island, the newest and biggest port in Nigeria. During his visits and talks with he apparently failed to agree with his Nigerian...