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| ON THE TEES: Dancers perform Big City, Big Dreams during a rehearsal at Joburg Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 27. Performances of the production, which combines classical ballet with contemporary and street dance, will run through Aug 6. Zhai Jianlan / Xinhua |
| HEAVY DUTY: Visitors watch elephants at Chobe National Park in northern Botswana on July 15. Chobe National Park is known for its large herds of elephants and Cape buffalo, which converge along the Chobe River in the dry months. The park, which was declared a national park in 1967, is close to the borders of Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia. It is Botswana's first national park. Yang Mengxi / Xinhua |
| SACKS OF HOPE: Chinese Ambassador to Somalia Qin Jian (left) joins Ali Mohamed Ali (center), Somalian permanent secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and Edith Heines, the World Food Program deputy country director for Somalia, to inspect rice aid from China weighing more than 2,800 tons in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Aug 1. Lyu Shuai / Xinhua |
(China Daily Africa Weekly 08/04/2017 page5)
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