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Week in pictures: From famine to fighting

Starvation in South Sudan, fleeing war in Mosul, and attacks in Afghanistan – here is the week in photos.

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Khatla Ali Abdullah, 90, is embraced after fleeing her home as Iraqi forces battle ISIL in western Mosul. [Zohra Bensemra/Reuters]
Published On 3 Mar 2017
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People light their mobile phones in the colours of the European Union flag during an anti-government protest demanding the government's resignation in Bucharest, Romania. [Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo]
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A malnourished baby is held by his mother Fadumo Abdi Ibrahim who fled drought-stricken southern Somalia. Thousands of desperate people are streaming into Somalia's capital Mogadishu seeking food. [Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP]
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Dancers from the Nene de Vila Matilde samba school perform during a Carnival parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil. [Andre Penner/AP]
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A man holds his South African identity document after being attacked by a mob in Pretoria, South Africa. Police fired tear gas, water cannon, and rubber bullets during riots sparked by opposition to immigrants. [James Oatway/Reuters]
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An Iraqi soldier distributes cigarettes, which were banned by ISIL, to displaced men who fled their homes amid heavy fighting in Mosul. [Khalid Mohammed/AP Photo]
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Rebels of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, harvest chontaduro - or peach palm - at their camp in La Carmelita, near Puerto Asis, in Colombia's southwestern state of Putumayo. [Fernando Vergara/AP Photo]
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Men carry a wounded Afghan soldier to hospital after Taliban attacks in the capital Kabul that killed more than 20 people. [Mohammad Ismail/Reuters]
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Women and children wait to be registered before food distribution carried out by the UN World Food Programme in Leer state, South Sudan. More than 100,000 people face famine in the war-torn country, the UN says. [Siegfried Modola/Reuters]
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Melinda Quispe walks on a trash-strewn shore of Lake Titicaca as she holds her dog, in the Puno region of Peru. The governments of Peru and Bolivia signed a pact in January to spend more than $500m to clean up pollution in the area. [Rodrigo Abd/AP]