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Long stretch: A tourist feeds a giraffe at the Giraffe Center in Nairobi, capital of Kenya, on Dec 25. The Giraffe Center, founded in 1979, is part of a movement trying to save the animals, with some species currently endangered. Li Baishun / Xinhua |
Right at home: A photo taken on Dec 27, shows antelope in Lake Nakuru National Park, about 140 kilometers northwest of Nairobi, Kenya. The park is home to indigenous plants and animal species endangered by chemical pollution from neighboring agricultural zones, industrial effluent and poaching. Sheikh Maina / Xinhua |
Business prospect: Thomas Schafer, chief executive officer of Volkswagen South Africa (left) and Rwanda Development Board Chief Executive Francis Gatare sign a memorandum of understanding in Kigali, Rwanda, on Dec 21. The German automaker said that it is exploring the possibility of setting up a production facility in Rwanda. Xinhua |
Class act: Recruits march during the National Youth Service graduation parade at NYS College in Gilgil, Kenya, on Dec 20. More than 10,000 recruits graduated from the college that day. Sheikh Maina / Xinhua |
Boy and beast: Nine-year-old Hunter Mitchell, a South African conservationist, takes a rhinoceros for a walk in Cape Town, South Africa, on Sept 24. Earlier, he received an award from the Steve Irwin Foundation in Australia for his fundraising efforts aimed saving a rhino calf that had been separated from its mother. Ben Beauden / Xinhua |
Merry Christmas: People spend Dec 25 at Millennium Park in Abuja, Nigeria. Olatunji Obasa / Xinhua |
(China Daily Africa Weekly 12/30/2016 page23)