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Heavy machinery moves soil at a makeshift dam while workers hoist giant pipes over mounds of earth at two construction sites in the south of Uruguay, as the South American country struggles to enhance its aging water delivery infrastructure to cope with an unprecedented three-year-long drought that has put at risk the supply of tap water for about 60% of the population. IMAGES
"We are on the verge of the abyss," says UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as he briefs reporters at the United Nations in New York on rising temperatures and the state of global climate in 2020. SOUNDBITE
Leaders from Nigeria, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Niger and Ghana gather in Bamako's Sheraton Hotel to try break a dreadlock between Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and protest movements demanding his resignation in an escalating political crisis. IMAGES
Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara and his Senegalese counterpart Macky Sall are welcomed at Bamako airport by Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. Five West African heads of state are expected in Mali to try to resolve the socio-political crisis that has gripped the country since June. IMAGES
In the Malian capital of Bamako, opponents of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita erect barricades and burn tyres to show their frustration at the weeks-long political crisis in the West African state. The 15-nation Economic Community of West African States ended a mediation mission in Mali on Sunday with a list of reform proposals. But the opposition spurned the proposals as they did not address its main demand -- that Keita resign. IMAGES
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