Beginning in Guinea at the end of 2013, the West African Ebola epidemic quickly spread to neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone. The worst outbreak of the disease in history, by November the World Health Organisation estimated that there had been over 16,000 cases, with 7000 deaths. Pictured, a woman throws a handful of soil towards the body of her sister as an Ebola burial team take her for cremation in Monrovia, Liberia.
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to backtrack on planned EU integration in favour of closer ties with Moscow sparked violent protest centred around Kiev’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti ("Independence Square"). Beginning in November 2013, the protests reached fever-pitch on February 21 when Yanukovych finally caved to vast public pressure and fled the capital. Pictured, Pro-European integration protesters take cover from water sprayed from a fire engine at the site of clashes with riot police in Kiev on January 23.
Traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, Malaysia Airline flight 370 vanished on Saturday March 8 with 239 people on board. Relatives of the missing passengers were left in angry and distraught as the largest search in aviation history slowly spread from the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean. As weeks stretched to months and the numerous reports of floating debris led nowhere, baffled aviation experts have admitted the MH370’s final resting-place could take years to discover.
Armed militants from Islamist movement Boko Haram storm an all-girls secondary school in the village of Chibok, Nigeria, packing around 276 teenagers onto trucks before disappearing into a remote, hilly area along the Cameroon border. The kidnapping sparked international outrage with numerous countries pledging to help locate the missing girls and eradicate the Boko Haram. Despite all the international assistance, only a handful of girls have been recovered, having escaped their captors and fleeing into the bush. Pictured, women cry during a protest demanding security forces to search harder for the abducted girls, outside Nigeria's parliament in Abuja.
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