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Coffins are lined up for the students killed in last Thursday's attack on Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya. Al-Shabaab gunmen rampaged through the university at dawn, killing over 140 people in the group's deadliest attack in the East African country. Picture: AP
Coffins are lined up for the students killed in last Thursday's attack on Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya. Al-Shabaab gunmen rampaged through the university at dawn, killing over 140 people in the group's deadliest attack in the East African country. Picture: AP
Shaun Venter, snake and reptile rescuer, with volunteers, and the Nile monitor that was rescued from a stormwater pipe in Prospecton this week. Venter said the creature had been hiding from locals who had wanted to eat it.
DURBAN: 010315 Photographer David Goldblatt is exhibiting his work at KZNSA Art Galary. PICTURE: GCINA NDWALANE
Feet of a child covered in mud are seen on a street that was hit by the floods at Los Loros town on Tuesday. The death toll from heavy rains and flooding that battered Chile last week has risen to 29, with another 150 still missing, according to authorities. Picture: Reuters
A man erects a shack on vacant land in Khayelitsha township in Cape Town on Tuesday. Frustrations with the slow pace of housing delivery have seen a rise in illegal land occupations across the country. Picture: Reuters
Residents Khayelitsha township in Cape Town erect shacks on vacant land on Tuesday. Frustrations with the slow pace of housing delivery have seen a rise in illegal land occupations across the country. Picture: Reuters
A girl arranges cutouts of coffins to commemorate the more than 617 people march organisers say have been killed by law enforcement in LA County since 2000. Picture: Reuters
Disabled Palestinians participate in a race organised by the UN in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. The event is aimed at raising awareness on the impact of Explosive Remnants of War. Picture: Reuters
Protesters hold placards at the memorial for Paul Kruger in central Pretoria on Wednesday. Afrikaaners announced they would protest and chain themselves to the Paul Kruger statue to prevent a possible dismantling. Picture: EPA
An Afrikaner places placards at the base of the memorial for Paul Kruger in Pretoria on Wednesday. Picture: EPA
A council worker washes off green paint on a statue of the Paul Kruger in Pretoria on Wednesday. Afrikaaners had announced they would protest and chain themselves to the Paul Kruger statue to prevent a possible dismantling. Picture: EPA
A man feeds pigeons at a park in Pretoria on Wednesday. The park is used by many people and with hundreds of pigeons local residents come to the park each day to feed the birds. Picture: EPA
Two baby mouflons hop across a meadow of a game reserve near Ravensburg, Germany, 07 April 2015. The lambs were born just a few weeks ago. Photo: Felix Kaestle/dpa
(In the Pic - Family photo - President Mugabe and President Zuma). The President of the Republic of South Africa, His Excellency Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma received his counterpart, His Excellency Mr Robert Gabriel Mugabe, President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, who is on a State Visit to South Africa. The objective of the visit is to consult on issues of mutual interest, paying particular focus on bilateral and economic cooperation, including regional and continental matters. The visit will further strengthen the historical, cultural and fraternal bonds that exist between South Africa and Zimbabwe. 08/04/2015, Pretoria, Union Building, Elmond Jiyane, GCIS
Filipino Residents ride on top of an overcrowded "Jeepney", a locally manufactured public transport vehicle, in Mogpog town on Marinduque island. Picture: Reuters
A man walks past graffiti by Greek street artist Achilles, in Athens. Eurozone financial officials are meeting on Wednesday to consider a list of bailout reforms overhauled by Greece's new left-wing government. Picture: AP
A peacock butterfly sits on an almond blossom in Heppenheim, central Germany, on Wednesday. Picture: AP
A traveller waits at Nice airport, southeastern France on Wednesday. French air traffic controllers called a two-day strike in a quarrel over working and retirement conditions, prompting the cancellation of 40 percent of flights across France. Picture: AP
A man participates in a protest against the Garissa University on Wednesday. Last week's killing of 148 people at a university has piled pressure on President Uhuru Kenyatta to stop frequent gun and grenade assaults staged on Kenyan soil by the al-Shabaab group. Picture: Reuters
Audrey Mbugua, 31, Kenya's most famous transgender campaigner. Mbugua will not say whether it was a razor blade, pills or carbon monoxide that she used to try to kill herself. Picture: Reuters
Published Apr 8, 2015
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