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  • Workers, at the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (OCFCU) Ltd. processing plant, unload sacks of coffee beans for cleaning.
  • Imelda Gafabusa, 70, falls asleep near her front door while waiting for a rainstorm to end; before the rain she spent four hours working in the field tending to her sweet potato, cassava, and groundnut crops.
  • Children of South Sudanese refugees, who fled their country because of war, entertain themselves with a dance called {quote}Daluka.{quote} In response to fighting which broke out in South Sudan, in December 2013, thousands of South Sudanese refugees crossed the border at Nimule into northern Uganda.
  • South Sudanese, who have been living as internally displaced peoples (IDPs), gather under a large tree to distribute their monthly food rations. Thousands of South Sudanese became IDPs in the states of Jonglei and Juba, following the outbreak of fighting between forces loyal to South Sudan president Salvar Kiir and his ex-vice president Rick Machar in December 2013.
  • Makal Mawut Abour, 14, from Jonglei state in South Sudan, stands at the entrance of a church (under construction) observing a crowd of South Sudanese refugees waiting to receive soap and feminine hygiene pads. In response to fighting which broke out in South Sudan in December 2013, thousands of refugees crossed the border at Nimule into northern Uganda. The fighting was between forces loyal to South Sudan president Salvar Kiir and his ex-vice president Rick Machar. The refugees have refused to return home because of fear the fighting will resume.
  • Workers in downtown Buenos Aires pass a theater which features a Broadway play.
  • A partial solar eclipse occurs with the moon shielding 35 percent of the sun.
  • An Afro-Bolivian woman looks downhill on a festival which marks a religious festival ('Fiesta de San Benito').
  • Several Afro-Peruvian men play cards.
  • An Afro-Ecuadorian woman observes pedestrians from her front window.
  • Folkloric groups and dancers march through the streets in celebration of La Festividad de Nuestro Senor Jesus del Gran Poder. It began in 1939 as a candle procession proceeded by an image of Christ. It has evolved into a large celebration honoring the Aymara culture.
  • Afro-Ecuadorian children play tug-of-war.
  • A woman and her grandson sit at a disembarkation dock and observe a flock of birds near the port of Ilo.
  • A Peruvian exhorts two bulls into butting heads. Once begun the contest ends when one bull runs away.
  • Our Lord of Miracles is the country's most widely attended religious event.
  • Worshippers at a Buddhist temple in the Ba Rea province of Vietnam gather for a prayer service.
  • Folkloric groups and dancers march through the streets in celebration of La Festividad de Nuestro Senor Jesus del Gran Poder. It began in 1939 as a candle procession proceeded by an image of Christ. It has evolved into a large celebration honoring the Aymara culture.
  • Katie Sanchez, 11, right, has a snowball fight with her brother Rudy, 13, after their family stopped along the highway to view the snow about fifteen miles north of Los Angeles.
  • An Afro-Bolivian girl rinses her hair.
  • An acrobat performs in 'La Tarumba', a non-traditional circus, which is a mix of Peru's Andean and black cultures.
  • A young woman washes clothes while small-scale gold miners relax overhead during their morning break.
  • Smoke from wildfires near the Oak Park area of Ventura County, Calif., is seen from San Fernando Valley..
  • Nancy Tunnell, with Veterans for Peace, smooths the sand at a memorial dedicated to American soldiers killed in Iraq.
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