Posts Tagged ‘Africa’

POTD: Getty Images – Most Moving Images of 2014 number 10

Wednesday, January 14th, 2015

The tenth most moving image of 2014 on Getty Images – as voted by the global public – is a photo by Daniel Berehulak of the Ebola outbreak in Africa.

Residents look on as a man lays dead in a busy street on September 15, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo taken by Daniel Berehulak.

Residents look on as a man lays dead in a busy street on September 15, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo taken by Daniel Berehulak.

According to locals, the man in the photo passed away three days earlier.

The family had been calling to have his body removed but no burial team came to dispose of the body.

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POTD: Getty Images – Most Moving Images of 2014 number 7

Sunday, January 11th, 2015

The seventh most moving image of 2014 on Getty Images – as voted by the global public – is a photo by John Moore amidst Liberia’s battle against a spreading Ebola epidemic.

Umu Fambulle stands over her husband Ibrahim after he staggered and fell, knocking him unconscious in an Ebola ward on August 15, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo taken by John Moore.

Umu Fambulle stands over her husband Ibrahim after he staggered and fell, knocking him unconscious in an Ebola ward on August 15, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo taken by John Moore.

People suspected of contracting the Ebola virus were being sent by Liberian health workers to the center, a closed primary school originally built by USAID.

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