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LIB 07/08/73 GENERAL SHOTS OF CITY OF DAKAR
General shots of city of Dakar
1 exterior mosque
2 view from car as drives along city streets past market and shops
3 gv war memorial
4 exterior National Assembly building
5 view from car as drives towards government building
6 Senegal...
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SYND 25-6-71 THE MEETING OF THE OAU ENDS
Delegates and heads of state at the closing session of the Organization of African Unity conference in Addis Ababa. The delegates include President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania, the President of Sudan, Gaafar Nimeiry, the President...
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Incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade casts his ballot
1. Senegal incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade walking towards polling station at a school in Point-E suburb of Dakar, some in crowd boo while others clap
2. Opposition supporter Mansour Yas shouts after Wade (French) "He is a...
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Funerals for Togo football team members killed in Angola
1. Mid of pallbearers carrying coffin of Stan Ocloo, Togo football team''s press officer
2. Ocloo''s family crying
3. Family members of Togo team''s Assistant Coach, Abalo Amalete
4. Pallbearers carrying Amalete''s coffin, portrait as...
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NIGERIA PLANE CRASHES KILLING ALL ON BOARD
A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighbourhood in Nigeria's largest city on Sunday - killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground.
It was the country's worst air disaster in nearly two decades.
The cause...
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SYND 15-12-73 PRESIDENT BOIGNY OF IVORY COAST ARRIVES
Arrival in of Ivory Coast President Felix Boigny
1 gv Dakar airport
2 ms VIPs waiting
3 ms plane taxis
4 ms VIPs line
5 ms President and Mrs Leopold Senghor welcome Ivory Coast President Felix Boigny
6 ms Senghor and Boigny speak...
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LIBERIA: PRESIDENT TAYLOR VOWS NOT TO ATTACK US EMBASSY AGAIN
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Liberia's President Charles Taylor vowed not to attack the U-S Embassy again in Liberia, where a former warlord accused of treason has been holed up since the weekend.
The embassy has been on alert since the warlord...
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Votes being counted in presidential election
1. Various of people outside polling office watching vote counting
2. Officials scrutinising votes
3. Various of officials holding up ballot papers as the votes are counted
4. Various of officials tallying votes on blackboard
5....
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SYND 28-01-70 REPRESENTATIVES OF 15 FRENCH SPEAKING AFRICAN COUNTRIES HOLD A CRUCIAL SUMMIT MEETING TO IRON OUT QUARrELS AND FORMULATE COMMON MARKET
A meeting of OCAM (Organization Commune Africaine et Mauricienne) takes place in the Cameroon capital of Yaounde to discuss the future of the African countries and to iron out problems and common interests.
NIGHTSHOTS: all shots very...
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SYND 1 4 78 PRESIDENT CARTER ARRIVES IN LAGOS
Murtala Mohammed, Nigeria's Head of State, welcomes US President Jimmy Carter and his family to Nigeria.
1. US plane taxiing to standstill
2. ms welcoming party
3. ws Carter and family descending plane steps
4. ms Carter talking with...
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DISASTERS: Nigeria - Plane crash kills at least 150 in Lagos
1. Wide of emergency workers at scene of wreckage
2. Wide of wreckage with man standing in smoke in background
3. Close-up of fire burning in wreckage
4. Wide of smouldering wreckage
5. Wide of building which has been virtually...
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Body of Italian hostage killed in Nigeria is repatriated
1. Italian Air Force jet with body of hostage Franco Lamolinara taxiing
2. Italian and EU flags
3. Relatives and officials waiting on tarmac
4. Wide, relatives waiting on tarmac near airplane
5. Franco Taffuri, head of the Foreign...
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CAN818 JOURNALIST RELEASED FROM PRISON
The journalist Lateef Jakande is released from prison in Lagos by the new Nigerian regime.
1. ns sign 'Maximum Security Prison' tilt down to crowd
2. ms crowd cheering
3. ms Jakande walks out of prison
4. ms Jakande with cheering...
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SYND 23 4 77 AFRICAN AND MAURITANIAN ORGANISATION OCAM IN SITTING
The Organization Commune Africaine et Malgache (OCAM) met in Dakar, represented by Heads of state from tjhe participating nations, including Rwanda, Benin, Mauritius, Central African Republic, Sensgal, Togo, Upper Volta, Ivory Coast,...
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SYND 28-1-70 15 FRENCH SPEAKING AFRICAN COUNTRIES ATTEND OCAM SUMMIT
Representatives of 15 French - speaking African countries hold crucial summit meeting to iron out quarrels and formulate common market
1) ms Cameron National Assembly building
2) interior conference hall, meeting of cultural and social...
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AIR ALGERIE - Mali / France - Debris strewn across site of crashed Air Algerie plane
Debris strewn across site of crashed Air Algerie plane
Gossi region - 26 July 2014
1. Various of crash site; debris on ground
2. Close of signage from plane reading (English) "Pull handle for exit"
3. debris
4. crash site from a...
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SYND 10 9 67 GNERAL GOWON INSPECTS TROOPS IN TRAINING
Major-General Yakubu Gowon reviews troops under training in Lagos.
1. ms Gowman and staff, pan to marching troops
2. cu Gowon address troops
3. ms Gowon in front speaking
4. ms troops listening
5. vs Gowon speaks, troops listen
6....
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People watch eclipse
Frambo, on the boarder with Ghana
1. One quarter eclipse of the sun
2. Photographer taking pictures, people looking at eclipse
3. Woman looking up at eclipse, UPSOUND: (French) "It's beautiful"
4. One quarter eclipse of the sun
5....
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Opening of Elf trial
1. Various exteriors Paris tribunal
2. People and lawyers walking in corridor
3. Close up sign "Appeal courtroom"
4. Pan down sign to entrance of courtroom with policemen standing outside
5. Highshot of courtroom interiors
6. Defendants...
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A rare solar eclipse swept across parts of the US, Africa and Europe on Sunday. Described as a "hybrid eclipse," some areas were witnessing a total blackout with others experiencing a partial version. (Nov. 3)
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A rare solar eclipse swept across parts of the US, Africa and Europe on Sunday.
Described as a "hybrid eclipse," some areas were witnessing a total blackout with others experiencing a...
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SENEGAL: PRESIDENT ABDOU DIOUF: FILE
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After decades of rule by a single party, voters on Sunday were deciding whether to unseat their incumbent Socialist president in Senegal, one of Africa's most peaceful democracies.
President Abdou Diouf is facing seven...
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CAN820 NEW GOVERNMENT TOURS
Lieutenant General Joseph Arthur Ankrah, Second Head of State of Ghana, takes a tour of Ghana to tell Ghanaians how their new government will tackle pressing problems.
1. ws grandstand and crowds
2. vs Ankrah meets tribe chiefs
3....
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CAN856 OAU DELEGATION MEETS GUINEA DETAINEES
A three-man delegation from the Organization of African Unity arrives in Accra to see the Guinean detainees, including the Guinea Foreign Minister Louis Lansana Beavogui and Guinean ambassador Abdoulaye Diallo, and attempts to resolve...
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AP COVER OF SITE OF CRASH IN WHICH AT LEAST 150 KILLED
A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighbourhood in Nigeria's largest city Lagos on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for the troubled...