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China Daily Africa | Updated: 2015-05-15 10:09

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Mother's Day: A Somali woman and her children are seen at a hospital during Mother's Day in Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, on May 10. Somali mothers joined the rest of the world on May 10 to mark International Mother's Day amid a struggle to raise their children alone due to conflict in the Horn of Africa nation. Abdiqani Hashi / Xinhua

Safe haven: A refugee mother and her child walk past an armed policeman at Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya,on May 8. Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp, currently houses about 350,000 people. For more than 20 years, it has been home to generations of Somalis who have fled their homeland. Sun Ruibo / Xinhua

World Asthma Day: Health workers of the Uganda Thoracic Society look at Jacinto Amandua (center), commissioner clinical services from the Ministry of Health as he tests for asthma during the events to mark World Asthma Day in Kampala on May 5. Amandua asked the workers to engage the government and make sure Asthma drugs are included in the next financial year. Joseph Kiggundu / Xinhua

Presidential meet: South Africa's President Jacob Zuma (left) shakes hands with Namibian President Hage Geingob in Cape Town, South Africa, on May 6. Geingob was on a working visit to South Africa. Xinhua

Deadly collapse: Rescuers remove debris at the site of a wall collapse accident in Nairobi, Kenya, on May 12. According to local media, at least 10 people were killed after a mosque wall collapsed at Mukuru Fuata Nyayo slums in Nairobi following heavy downpour the previous night. Pan Siwei / Xinhua

Moving house: A tricycle driver ferries a passenger and his furniture on a motor tricycle along a road in Abuja, capital of Nigeria, on May 12. Femi Ipaye / Xinhua

(China Daily Africa Weekly 05/15/2015 page5)

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