Snapshots
| Rain, rain, did you go away? A plane flies over a herd of antelopes in Nairobi National Park, Kenya, on March 21. Kenya's long rainy season, which usually begins in March, has yet to arrive this year, creating anxiety among the nation's people and endangering its wild animals. Sun Ruibo / Xinhua |
| Up in flames: Elephant tusks, ivory trinkets and carvings are set aflame on a pyre in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, on March 20. The Ethiopian government burned 6.1 metric tons of intercepted elephants' tusks and ivory products to discourage poaching and the illegal trade of ivory. Michael Tewelde / Xinhua |
| Four dead in attack: Residents gather around a M-Pesa (a mobile payment system in Kenya) shop after it was attacked by unknown gunmen in Wajir, northern Kenya, on March 18. At least four people were killed and three others seriously injured. Stephen Ingati / China Daily |
| Bit by bit: Workers at a construction site on a section of Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway project near Makueni, Kenya, on March 16. The project, by China Roads and Bridges Corp, involves the construction of about 480 kilometers of rail from the port city of Mombasa to the capital, Nairobi. Pan Siwei / Xinhua |
| An indiscriminate disease: A woman holds her child, who is suffering from tuberculosis, at Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, on March 24. Doctors at the hospital say that the disease is still widespread. Faisal Isse / Xinhua |
| A special opportunity: Students from the University Teaching Hospital Special School in Lusaka, capital of Zambia, an institute for children with special needs, appear listless in class on March 23. The school is situated in Zambia's main referral hospital and provides not only special education for the children, but skills to those who have intellectual challenges. Peng Lijun / Xinhua |
(China Daily Africa Weekly 03/27/2015 page5)
