The death toll in Mozambique on March 23, 2019 climbed to 417 after a cyclone pummelled swathes of the southern African country, flooding thousands of square kilometres, as the UN stepped up calls for more help for survivors. Started in 1965 by Biff Sumner and friends having a cookout and shooting machine guns it grew into the biggest machine gun shoot in the worldKenyan security forces help people to escape after a bomb blast at DusitD2 hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, on January 15. A huge blast followed by a gun battle rocked an upmarket hotel and office complex in Nairobi on January 15, 2018, causing casualties, in an attack claimed by the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab Islamist groupFootball fans line the streets to see the Liverpool football team take part in an open-top bus parade around Liverpool, north-west England on June 2, after winning they won the UEFA Champions League final football match between Liverpool and Tottenham.
C. Africa ex-president Bozize to contest December vote . Cyclone Idai smashed into the coast of central Mozambique in March, unleashing hurricane-force winds and rains that flooded the hinterland and drenched eastern Zimbabwe leaving a trail of destructionGuinea-Bissau's Braima Suncar Dabo (R) helps Aruba's Jonathan Busby to the finish line during the Men's 5000m heats at the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Khalifa International stadium in Doha on September 27Journalists gather around the ancient Egyptian mummy of Sennedjem, an official who lived during the reigns of Pharaohs Seti I and Ramesses II in the 19th dynasty (13th-12th century BC), after being removed from its coffin for fumigation at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) in the capital Cairo's Old Cairo district on September 21Former French President Jacques Chirac's daughter Claude Chirac lays her hand on her father's coffin as relatives attend a private burial for the late president at the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris on September 30MSC Magnifica is seen from one of the canals leading into the Venice Lagoon on June 9, 2019 in Venice. CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP/Getty Images Sept. 4, 2019 | Marseille, France Man fleeing from leopard is just one image to make it onto AFP's best photos of 2019 list From an emotional Theresa May announcing her resignation as Prime Minister to devastating damage caused by Storm Dorian in the Bahamas and haunting images of the civil war in Syria, AFP has published a selection of its best and most poignant photos of the year. Sometimes-violent demonstrations have wracked the semi-autonomous city since March 15, with millions taking to the streets to demand democratic reforms and police accountabilityUS President Donald Trump steps into the northern side of the Military Demarcation Line that divides North and South Korea, as North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un looks on, in the Joint Security Area (JSA) of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) on June 30Protesters lower themselves down with a rope down from a bridge to a highway, to escape from Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus and from police, in Hung Hom district in Hong Kong on November 18. Dozens of Hong Kong protesters escaped a besieged university campus on November 18 by lowering themselves on a rope from a footbridge to a highway. Once on the road they were seen being picked up by waiting motorcyclistsWomen and children evacuated from the Islamic State (IS) group's embattled holdout of Baghouz arrive at a screening area held by the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, on March 6. The fast-moving Maria fire stretched to 9,000 acres and forced the evacuations of 8,000 people and 2,300 structuresMoruti Mthalane of South Africa is punched by Masayuki Kuroda of Japan during their IBF flyweight title boxing bout in Tokyo on May 13. Moruti Mthalane is a South African professional boxer.