World Lens: Week of July 5

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Somali Women Protest - In Somalia, women carry weapons during a demonstration in Mogadishu on Monday. The protest was organized by the Islamist Al-Shabaab group that is fighting the Somali government. The women carried signs with slogans against the African Union peace keeping force. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)
Haiti: Six Months Later - Here, a Haitian woman, displaced by the 7-magnitude earthquake the slammed the nation in January, sits with her child at a makeshift slum set up next to the Corail-Cesselesse camp for people displaced by the quake. She, along with thousands, fled to this vacant stretch of land north of Port-au-Prince to escape the city’s overflowing camps. But she and others have walked into a fight over undeveloped land where urban planners envision the "new Haiti," showing why recovery is at a standstill.
Zimbabweans Wash Dirty Money - A man in Zimbabwe hangs dollar bills on a drying line after washing them Tuesday. People in the nation are washing their dirtiest cash in order to trade in the American currency, since their own hyperinflationary money was abandoned last year. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

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Haiti: Six Months Later - Here, a Haitian woman, displaced by the 7-magnitude earthquake the slammed the nation in January, sits with her child at a makeshift slum set up next to the Corail-Cesselesse camp for people displaced by the quake. She, along with thousands, fled to this vacant stretch of land north of Port-au-Prince to escape the city’s overflowing camps. But she and others have walked into a fight over undeveloped land where urban planners envision the "new Haiti," showing why recovery is at a standstill.

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