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Added on the 27/03/2022 18:47:06 - Copyright : AFP EN
Music rises in the streets of west London as the famous and colourful Notting Hill Carnival returns after two years of Covid cancellation. Started as a children's fayre by local communities to ease tensions in a racially divided 60s London, the Carnival is now a world-reknowned celebration of the British Afro-Caribbean identity. IMAGES
A helicopter takes off from a military airport, after the landing of Burkina's ex-president, Blaise Compaoré, following 8 years in exile. A convoy of vehicles is also seen leaving the site. IMAGES
Argentina's national football team returns to their hotel in Brasilia after victory over Colombia thanks to goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez who saved three penalty shoot-out spot-kicks. Argentina faces Brazil for the Copa America final on July 10th. IMAGES
Zipaquira residents welcome Tour de France 2019 winner Egan Bernal as he arrives in his hometown. IMAGES
Journalist Jumpei Yasuda arrives in Japan after being held hostage in Syria for over three years. The 44-year-old Japanese freelancer was seized in June 2015 and appeared in a rare video released by militants over the summer. IMAGES
After 43 years, Libyan exile Abdoullassem Al Naji finally returns to his homeland. Helped by the Red Cross, he has been reunited with the family he left behind in Libya decades ago. Next, there's fierce debate in Tunisia as the government weighs up the pros and cons of granting a shale gas drilling permit to energy giant Shell. Finally, we go to the movies in Morocco, where we settle down for a look at the Zagora Trans-Saharan film festival.