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  • Fishermen at the beach in Ras al Hadd, Oman, 2011
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  • Young wrestlers practice traditional wrestling during the evening hours at the wrestling school of ex-wrestler Boy Kaire on the beach of Dakar's Corniche on March 31, 2015. On most of Dakar's many beaches, young men are seen training as wrestlers before and during the wrestling season from December to August,
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  • (2008) The bookkeeping of father Hermann is meticuluous. He knows exactly who got what and when from him. Every day of the week, about 300 of the registered women and girls are entitled to collect some food and cloth and to stay at the centre from morning to evening.
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  • November 7, 2017 - A ma takes a selfie in front of the Grand Mosque in Touba, where thousands of people gather on. the evening before the Grand Magal Festival starts. Every year, 2-3 million people gather in Touba for this pilgrimage to commemorate Cheikh Amadou Bamba Mbacké (1853-1927), who was the founder of the Sufi order of the Mourids and is worshiped as a saint by the Senegalese. Bamba is interred inside the mosque. After his death, his eldest son Mamadou Moustapha Mbacké was appointed as his successor as the first Caliph General of the Mourid Brotherhood. 1932 he laid the foundation stone for the Great Mosque, which was completed 1963 by Bamba's second son Fallou M'Backé, the second Caliph General of the Mourids.
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  • Residents of Nairobi return home from work in the evening. Colourful competitiveness and the thrive for progress seem to part of the DNA of Nairobi‘s inhabitants. Techies and reformers are working on digitalising the fares for Matatus and on electrifying their engines. Perhaps soon electric-buses will be whizzing through Nairobi, making the colourful Matatus more eco-friendly in the future.
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  • November 7, 2017 - A young woman prays on the marbel square of the Grand Mosque in Touba, where thousands of people gather on. the evening before the Grand Magal Festival starts. Every year, 2-3 million people gather in Touba for this pilgrimage to commemorate Cheikh Amadou Bamba Mbacké (1853-1927), who was the founder of the Sufi order of the Mourids and is worshiped as a saint by the Senegalese. Bamba is interred inside the mosque. After his death, his eldest son Mamadou Moustapha Mbacké was appointed as his successor as the first Caliph General of the Mourid Brotherhood. 1932 he laid the foundation stone for the Great Mosque, which was completed 1963 by Bamba's second son Fallou M'Backé, the second Caliph General of the Mourids.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017. Mohammed Ahmad Ahmad empties his container with the collected waste outside the camp. In the evening, the waste is transported and disposed of by truck.
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  • Vicor spends an evening with friends.
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  • Dakar, July 24, 2016. One day after a successful fight, Kherou Ngor is resting in his room. Later that evening, his friends and family will celebrate him with a big party. After another victory, he is optimistic that one day he will become the "King of the Arena" in Senegalese wrestling. He has no idea that this should have been the last big victory in his wrestling career.
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  • (2013) Father Hermann, parks his car at his home in Pioneerspark. He often works from the early morning till late in the evening.
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  • April 1, 2015. Spectators enter an improvised arena in Djilass, a small village on the countyside in the district of Thiès. The arena is covered with cloths, to prevent onlookers. The toiurnaments on the countryside usually take place in the evening or at night.
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  • Wrestlers practice "la lutte avec frappe" (a form of Senegalese wrestling which allows boxing) during the evening hours at the wrestling school of ex-wrestler Boy Kaire on the beach of Dakar's Corniche on March 31, 2015.
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  • On April 21, 2015, a tournament in the Adrien Senghor Arena is coming to an end. Because it is too hot during the day, the competitions always take place in the evening and often last until midnight. The Adrien Senghor stadium was built for wrestling matches and attracts wrestlers from all over Senegal who come to Dakar to compete and win prize money.
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  • In the evening, one can drink a cocktail and enjoy the view of the Tonle Sap River and the Sisowath dock on the “le Moon” rooftop terrace of the Amaniaya Pancam hotel. The bar is well known as one of the most beautiful spots of the city and is said to be “the place to meet and chill” for tourists as well as natives in Phnom Penh.
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  • Some residents of Phnom Penh enjoy the work free Sunday evening in the park of the royal palace.
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  • Nairobi, August 2, 2019. Collins Birage (25) is a Makanga, a conductor of a Matatu. He works in one of the hundreds of Matatus which are every day lining up while waiting for passangers in front of the Nairobi Railways Bus Station. Collins' goal is to get as many passengers as possible on his bus as quickly as possible. The more passengers the Makangas recruit, the more they earn. On average, a Makange earns about 2000 Kenyan Shillings a day, which is about 20 USD. The competition among the Matatus is enormous. 20000 - 40000 busses allegedly drive through Nairobi. Soon they will face even more competition. Currently a modern public transport system is being built in Nairobi. For the Matatu community this is only one more reason to become even more creative. They have already created a digital map of the Matatu lines and network with the mobile phone signals of the passengers, something that did not exist before. Now they think about digitalizing payment and electrifying the buses. Perhaps soon colorful and more eco-frendly Matatus will be whizzing through the Kenyan capital.
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  • The Mixtape Matatu makes a „pit stop“ at a gas station in Rongai in order to to refuel and let passengers board the bus. It.drives back and forth on the Ongata Line, which connects the suburb Rongai with the Nairobi Railway Bus Station. Matatu owners compete to put the most exciting bus on the road, a rolling work of art. 100 Kenya shillings costs a ride with his bus „mixtape“, the equivalent of roughly 1 US Dollar, at peak times rhe fare might even rise to 150 shillings.
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  • Sheep are looking for food on the beach at Yoff. One reason why sheep are very popular with the Senegalese might be because they are very frugal. They can even digest cloth and cardboard.
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  • A short drive out of Nairobi’s central business district is the Nairobi National Park. Wide open grass plains and backdrop of the city scrapers, scattered acacia bush play host to a wide variety of wildlife including species like Zebras and Antilopes and even black rhinos, lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, buffaloes, giraffes and diverse birdlife with over 400 species recorded. Visitors can enjoy the park’s picnic sites, three campsites and the walking trails for hikers.
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  • Adam Ngom, a well-known drummer, cheers the audience on for the Wrestler Balla Gaye 2 In the stadium of Demba Diop, April 5, 2015. Every fight is accompanied by drum sounds – an important mystic element which is never absent, not even at small wrestling matches in the village.
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  • (2013) Father Hermann arrives at Damara 6, a district in Katutura township. The people gather very quick around the car when he arrives, they say they recognize the sound of the engine of his car even before they see it.
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  • The wrestler Kherou Ngor trains with his boxing coach on the beach of Ngor in Dakar on August 8, 2015, "La lutte avec frappe", wrestling with boxing is the supreme discipline of Senegalese wrestling. Even some of the biggest stars of the Senegalese national sport also train on the beaches of Dakar. For the locals, those trainings are  always welcome entertainment.
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  • The spectators  go wild as a young wrestler defeats his opponent in a nightly competition on April 8, 2015 in the Ngor district in Dakar, Even small children attend the fights that often kick off until after midnight.
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  • April 20, 2012. Two wrestlers in an occasional fight at a village party in the small place Soune on April 20, 2012. Wrestling is a traditional sport in Senegal, wrestling tournaments take place even in the smallest villages on the countryside.
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  • April 20, 20212 – During a wrestling match in the village of Soune near Thies, a wrestler smiles at a girl in the audience. Senegalese wrestling is a popular sport that is played even in the smallest villages.
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  • Joshua shows the pads inside his buzz lighter helmet. He sometimes wears the helmet for hours, even during summer.
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  • (2013) Even statues at the shelter have to be locked with a chain to prevent it from being stolen. Many of the women who visit Father Hermanns shelter grew up on the street and can´t resist to steal whatever they could sell for a little money.
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  • (2013) For many years, Hermann distributed second hand cloths among the women at the shelter. "Proper cloths are very important to get a minimum of respect in this culture, so the women will always try to dress up as good as possible, even if they have nothing. I don´t want them to spend their money on clothes, when they have hungry children to feed at home." he says.
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  • (2008) Whenever possible, Hermann ventured out into the townships to assist with problems or to get a sense of the conditions in which those he cares for were living. The priest talked to women and children on the street about the dangers of AIDS and other STDs. He encouraged them to get tested for AIDS and passed out condoms, even though the Catholic Church forbids it.
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  • This is story is reported by 20 years old Nancy Auma: I was 17 years and was abducted by the LRA when I  was 6 months pregnant, That day, the LRA rebels failed to abduct other children and they blamed it on me that my pregnancy was their bad luck and that I should be killed. 3 rebels with knives and razor blades started cutting off my ears, my nose and my lips. I was beaten; they kicked my stomach and left me with a wrapped paper with my ears, nose and lips to take it to the government soldiers. I was taken to the hospital and got treated. But I lost my dignity, even the father of my child rejected me because I was so deformed. In 2008, staff of African Youth Initiative Network came to my home and told me they got support from UN Trust Fund for Victims (TFV) and they are assisting people who got injuries due to LRA crimes. They brought me to the hospital where I received lips reconstructions. That was the first time I saw something good happened to me.
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  • An Uber driver is stuck in a traffic jam between Matatus and cars in the Nairobis‘ Central Business District. In the Kenyan capital  the classic taxis are also more and more replaced by the cheaper internet service Uber. But the Matatus are still the cheapest means of transport in Kenya. If the traffic jams the journey with the Uber can become very expensive and offers not even a speed advantage compared to the Matatus. The fare to the Matatus, on the other hand, is only slightly higher during the rush hours.
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  • A short drive out of Nairobi’s central business district is the Nairobi National Park. Wide open grass plains and backdrop of the city scrapers, scattered acacia bush play host to a wide variety of wildlife including species like Zebras and Antilopes and even black rhinos, lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, buffaloes, giraffes and diverse birdlife with over 400 species recorded. Visitors can enjoy the park’s picnic sites, three campsites and the walking trails for hikers.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017: Many alleys are dark and scary even during the day. Crime in the camp is high, theft and sexual assaults on women are common.
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  • (2013) Dina gets some tap water at a sanitary installation near her shack. Namibia is is the most arid country south of the Sahara. Rainfall, the main supplier of water, is very scarce. The Namibian government tries to improve the situation of the poorest people in Katutura by constructing sanitary facilities even in the sqatter settlements. But the tap water is not for free, of course. Often, the women have difficulties to bring up the money for the water which they need for themselves and their children.
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  • (2013) Amanda (33) tallks about her life at Father Hermann´s Shelter. Her parents passed away, so she grew up with her grandmother who could not afford to feed her and to pay for her schoolfees. Therfore she started to sell herself in clubs. She says that sex workers in Namibia are at very  high risk to get beaten up, thrown out of cars or even get killed by men who refuse to pay them for their services.
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  • Agnes was forced by her father to have sex with him at the age of 14. Her mother did not want to hear that  truth and started to drink. Later her mother even started to sell Agnes for sex to buy alcohol. Today Agnes still has to sell herself to take care for her 3 children and to send her younger sister to school. She says that she will never forgive her mother for what she did to her.
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  • (2013) Father Hermann arrives at Damara 6, a district in Katutura township. The people gather very quick around the car when he arrives, they say they recognize the sound of the engine of his car even before they see it.
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  • April 1 2016. A shaman in prepares a wrestler for a fight in Djilass, a small village on the countryside in the district of Thiès. Even well reknown wrestlers from Dakar somtimes visit the marabouts in the small villages on the countryside, because they believe that every Marabout has his own supernatural skills and magic powers.
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  • March 30, 2015. A poster in a street of Dakar advertises a wrestling match between Balla Gaye 2 and Emeu Sene, two superstars of the Senegalese Wrestling. Wrestling (translated into the local language, Woloff, is "Lamb") is the commercially most successful sport in Senegal, even more popular than football.
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  • A Motorcycle Taxi Driver waits for clients at the khoja mosque round about bus station.  Motorcycle taxis are a faster alternative to conventional Taxis or Uber in the streets of nairobi, where the traffic is often crazy and roads can be jammed for hours in the mornings and evenings.
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