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24 hours in pictures, 14 April 2021

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South African musician Francois van Coke and ex blue bull rugby player Derick Hougaard at the Boxop Press Conference at Sun Arena on April 13, 2021 in Pretoria, South Africa. Boxop is South Africa's first series of celebrity boxing matches. Picture: Sibongumenzi Sibiya

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South African musician Francois van Coke and ex blue bull rugby player Derick Hougaard at the Boxop Press Conference at Sun Arena on April 13, 2021 in Pretoria, South Africa. Boxop is South Africa's first series of celebrity boxing matches. Picture: Sibongumenzi Sibiya
Worshipers pray as they mark the beginning of Ramadan at the Nizamiye Mosque in Johannesburg, South Africa, 13 April 2021. Muslims around the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan by praying during the night time and abstaining from eating, drinking, and sexual acts during the period between sunrise and sunset. Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar and it is believed that the revelation of the first verse in Koran was during its last 10 nights. The mosque is a copy of the 'Blue Mosque' in Istanbul and was build by a Turkish businessman Ali Katircioglu. The mosque claims to be the biggest in the southern hemisphere. Picture: EPA-EFE/KIM LUDBROOK
Faithful wearing face masks attend Taraweeh prayers after fasting on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan amid the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic at a mosque in Gaza City, 13 April 2021. Muslims around the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan by praying during the night time and abstaining from eating, drinking, and sexual acts during the period between sunrise and sunset. Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar and it is believed that the revelation of the first verse in Koran was during its last 10 nights. Picture: EPA-EFE/MOHAMMED SABER
Amandebele a group of protestors from KwaMhlanga dance outside the SABC offices in Pretoria, 14 April 2021. They demand the radio station Ikwekwezi FM be moved to their homelands and not to Johannesburg as is currently intended. Picture: Jacques Nelles
Amandebele a group of protestors from KwaMhlanga dance outside the SABC offices in Pretoria, 14 April 2021. They demand the radio station Ikwekwezi FM be moved to their homelands and not to Johannesburg as is currently intended. Picture: Jacques Nelles
Swiss Alisha Lehmann, right, fights for the ball with Czech Republic's Jana Petrikova during the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 play-off 2nd leg qualification match between Switzerland and the Czech Republic at the Stockhorn Arena in Thun, Switzerland, 13 April 2021. Picture: EPA-EFE/ALESSANDRO DELLA VALLE
Israeli youth Scouts are reflected in a pool as they light torches, during a memorial ceremony at the Mount Herzl military cemetery, on the eve of Memorial Day in Jerusalem, Israel, 13 April 2021. Israel marks its 'Day of Remembrance for the Fallen Israeli Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism'. Picture: EPA-EFE/ABIR SULTAN
A girl sits on the barrel of a tank turret at the Israeli Armoured Corps memorial in Latrun, between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, on April 14, 2021, following a ceremony commemorating Yom HaZikaron (Israel's Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers). - Israel annually marks Yom HaZikaron to commemorate 23,928 fallen soldiers and fighters since 1860, just before the celebrations marking the Jewish State's 73rd anniversary, according to the Jewish calendar. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)
A man works on the construction of the Cristo Protector in Encantado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 12 April 2021 (issued 13 April 2021). On a hill in southern Brazil, the skeleton of a huge statue has been growing for a little over a year. It is the so-called Cristo Protector, a 43-meter high monument that aims to combine religious devotion and the promotion of tourism. This statue is promoted as one of the 'largest in the world' in honour of Jesus of Nazareth, after a similar one inaugurated in 2010 in the Polish city of Swiebodzin, which measures 52 meters, and as 'the tallest in Brazil' with five meters more than the Cristo Redentor of Rio de Janeiro. Picture: EPA-EFE/Daniel Marenco
Johannesburg Emergency Management Services are seen at Gezeni informal settlement in Jeppestown, Johannesburg, 14 April 2021, where a fire earlier spread through a section of the shacks killing nine people. Picture: Sibongumenzi Sibiya
Johannesburg Emergency Management Services are seen at Gezeni informal settlement in Jeppestown, Johannesburg, 14 April 2021, where a fire earlier spread through a section of the shacks killing nine people. Picture: Sibongumenzi Sibiya
Johannesburg Emergency Management Services are seen at Gezeni informal settlement in Jeppestown, Johannesburg, 14 April 2021, where a fire earlier spread through a section of the shacks killing nine people. Picture: Sibongumenzi Sibiya
Clayville mega-housing beneficiary Patricia Madlavu sweeps her house in Tembisa, 14 April 2021. Three-hundred-and-forty homes were handed to the qualifying beneficiaries, senior citizens, youths from child-headed households and people with physical disabilities. Picture: Nigel Sibanda
MEC Lebogang Maile handed over houses to Clayville mega-housing beneficiaries in Tembisa, 14 April 2021. Three-hundred-and-forty homes were handed to the qualifying beneficiaries, senior citizens, youths from child-headed households and people with physical disabilities. Picture: Nigel Sibanda
MEC Lebogang Maile speaks to Clayville mega-housing beneficiary Limakatso Marie Lebitsa at Tembisa, 14 April 2021. Three-hundred-and-forty homes were handed to the qualifying beneficiaries, senior citizens, youths from child-headed households and people with physical disabilities. Picture: Nigel Sibanda
A man carries a suitcase as he walks across a bridge and looks at Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, on April 14, 2021, during the reconstruction work while April 15, 2021 will mark the two years anniversary of the fire that devastated the Cathedral, in the centre of the French capital Paris. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP)
In this long exposure image, fiber-optic lights glow at the Field of Light immersive art installation from artist Bruce Munro, part of the Light at Sensorio on April 13, 2021 in Paso Robles, California. The Light Towers feature 69 towers composed of more than 17,000 wine bottles adjacent to a 15 acre Field of Light at Sensorio which has a solar powered array of over 58,800 stemmed spheres lit by fiber-optics. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP)
Mr. Jean (C) (not his real name) throws saw dust into a coffin while him and his team of eight carpenters make cheap coffins on the street, even though this activity is prohibited on the public highway, in Antananarivo on April 14, 2021. - Since the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Madagascar, which saw the number of deaths increase in the capital, the demand for coffins has also increased considerably. For the past three weeks, Mr. Jean and his team have been producing between 15 and 20 coffins per day, whereas before they were producing only 3 or 4 per day. The coffins, made of pine wood in one hour, are sold between 90,000 and 210,000 Ariary (between 20 and 47 euros). (Photo by RIJASOLO / AFP)
This picture shows the 100 days countdown till the start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games displayed on the illuminated Tokyo Skytree in Tokyo on April 14, 2021. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)
This photo taken and received courtesy of an anonymous source via Facebook on April 14, 2021 shows a protester painting the symbols of the three finger salutes on the ground with red paint as part of a "bleeding strike" demonstration against the military coup in Shwebo in Myanmar's Sagaing region. (Photo by Handout / FACEBOOK / AFP)


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