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PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2006
14 Dec 2006
Source: Reuters

 
PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2006 Riot policemen charge towards opposition protesters in the Masina section of Kinshasa July 25, 2006. Congolese police fired warning shots on Tuesday to disperse rioting opposition protesters in Kinshasa who tore down election posters and demanded the postponement of historic polls set for Sunday.
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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/