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A crowded street in Kano, Nigeria, whose population has doubled over the past two decades to 3.5 million. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Ghaddafi Auwalu is a 10-year-old beggar in Kano, Nigeria. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Auwalu Mohammed repairs tires for a living outside Kano, Nigeria. He sent Ghaddafi, the 11th of his 12 children, to school, where the teacher sends the students to beg on the streets of Kano. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Husseini Adamu, left, sits with students at his Islamic school in Kano, Nigeria. Ghaddafi Auwalu, 10, foreground, in black shirt, is one of the students. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Street children wait for food in the courtyard of a food distribution center in Kano, Nigeria. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Ghaddafi Auwalu, 10, collects a handout of rice and gruel at a charity food distribution in Kano, Nigeria. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Street children wait for food at a food distribution center in Kano, Nigeria. Tens of thousands of street kids fill the streets of Kano as the population of northern Nigeria skyrockets. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Ghaddafi Auwalu, center, 10, stands in the courtyard of a food distribution center for street children in Kano, Nigeria. Ghaddafi was sent by his parents to attend a poor Islamic school in Kano, where he must beg for food. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Beatrice Adongo, center, with her husband, left, and seven of their children in Sirakano, Uganda. Adongo gave birth to 13 babies before she learned about birth control at age 45. U.S. officials say the Bush administration ignored the importance of family planning programs in development, fueling Africa's population growth. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Beatrice Adongo, center, with her family in Sirakano, Uganda. Adongo gave birth to 13 children before she learned about birth control at age 45. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Beatrice Adongo, center, sits with four of her children in Sirakano, Uganda. Adongo gave birth to 13 children before she learned about birth control at age 45. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Frederick Ouma, 28, the eldest son of Beatrice Adongo, who had 13 children in Sirakano, Uganda, supports his family by working as a security guard in Kampala, the capital. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Pregnant mother Catherine Naka, left, talks with health worker Agnes Lojjo in Busia, Uganda. Naka, 29, was ordered by her husband to stop using birth control. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Catherine Naka, 29, of Busia, Uganda, was ordered by her husband to stop using birth control. Fewer than one in five married women in Uganda use modern contraception. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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A health worker injects a woman with a shot of Depo Provera, a quarterly contraceptive injection, at a health clinic in Busia, Uganda. U.S. officials say the Bush administration ignored the importance of promoting family planning in Africa, contributing to rampant population growth in countries like Uganda. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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When she was 15, Aine Armando Wasso's mother ordered her to get married. She refused, defying a widespread tradition of early marriage in Derre, her hometown in the southern African nation of Mozambique. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Lucia Greva, center, wants her teenage daughter Aine to be married to ease the burden on her family of nine children in Derre, Mozambique. Behind her is her son, Basilio, 28. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Veronica Candrinho, left, was 16 when she married 25-year-old shopkeeper Jove Moises in Derre, Mozambique. A year after marrying, she delivered their first child. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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