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Afghan women sit in the rafters as they watch girls compete in a Taekwon-Do match in Herat. Women were banned from participating in sports by the then-ruling Taliban regime, that was forced from power in 2001, as part of a raft of measures that kept women uneducated and out of the public domain
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Porters carry the carcasses of a shark (L) and a Marlin (R) to the local market in Hamarweyne near the port of Mogadishu on the Indian Ocean coast in the Somalia capital as fishermen bring in their catch
Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/Getty Images

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