Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir (C) chairs the general assembly for the national dialogue on August 20, 2015 in the capital Khartoum. Bashir said he was ready for a two-month ceasefire with rebels in Sudan's border regions to allow national dialogue talks to take place to address the country's myriad problems, offering insurgents an amnesty. AFP PHOTO/ ASHRAF SHAZLY (Photo credit should read ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images)
Nuria Gollo, the head of the Women Advocacy and Development Organization in Marsabit, poses for a portrait on her community's sacred land in northern Kenya. Research shows that over 90% of women in Marsabit county have suffered female genital mutiliation. Despite the practice being outlawed in 2008, it is still carried out in secret among many local communities.
A doctor examines Wek Wol Wek (3 years), who suffers acute malnutrition, at the clinic run by Doctors without Borders (MSF) in Aweil, Northern Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan, on October 11, 2016.
Every week, the MSF clinic attends 60 new cases of malnourishment and it registered the highest activity in August 2016 with 90. Since March 2016, more than 70,000 people from Northen Bahr al Ghazal migrated to the neighbouring country Sudan due to the lack of food and the inflation in the market. According to the Food Security Outlook Update released by Famine Early Warning System Network (Fews Net) in September 2016, in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, some households are in Catastrophe phase level (IPC Phase 5), as they suffer from extreme lack of food, with households facing significant food consumption gaps, high levels of malnutrition and mortality. / AFP / ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN (Photo credit should read ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN/AFP/Getty Images)
In this photo taken on March 2, 2016, shows Davao City Mayor and Presidential Candidate Rodrigo Duterte raising a clenched fist during his campaign sortie in Lingayen, Pangasinan, north of Manila.
Rodrigo Duterte curses the pope's mother and jokes about his own infidelities, but many voters in the Philippines want to elect him president so he can begin an unprecedented war on crime. / AFP / NOEL CELIS / TO GO WITH AFP STORY: Philippines-vote-rights-crime-Duterte, FOCUS by Karl Malakunas (Photo credit should read NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images)
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