Djibouti has signed a deal with Iceland to build a geothermal plant near the Dantean furnace of Lake Assal, the continent's lowest point.

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Arranged chronologically, from the happy lines of voters on the December 27th polling day through the fires and lynchings in the Dantean weeks that ensued, the harrowing images recall just how close Kenya came to anarchy.

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