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PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2006
12 Dec 2006
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PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2006 Soldiers loyal to Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba take cover during a gun battle near his office in the capital Kinshasa November 11, 2006. Heavy gunfire and blasts rang out in Congo's capital in new clashes between the forces of contenders in historic elections meant to end a decade of war, and the government has threatened to send in the army.
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Lopez Vidal, 10, who is afflicted by polio and is also deaf, walks on all fours inside the International Polio Victim Response Committee (IPVRC) compound in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa, November 23, 2006. Handicapped, impoverished, often rejected or abandoned, and living in Africa's deadliest war zone, they should have little to celebrate. Instead, the lively "polio kids" offer an oasis of hope, unity and optimism in a vast country marked by despair. Picture taken November 23, 2006. To match WITNESS-POLIO/


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