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| - We are offering the following Editor's Choice stories which have been selected by AFP's chief editors for re-publication as some of the best of the week: + Covid leaves Brazilian Amazon city struggling to breathe + Yemeni women use solar to light up homes, one village at a time + In Bergamo, memory of coffin-filled trucks still haunts + At Caracas cemetery, homeless mix with looters Health-virus-Brazil-Manaus,FEATURE MANAUS, Brazil The hardest thing about caring for eight relatives with Covid-19 at the same time, says Brazilian student Lais de Souza Chaves, was deciding who got oxygen. 1,000 words by Michael Dantas, with Mauro Pimentel and Joshua Howat Berger in Rio de Janeiro. Pictures by Michael Dantas Yemen-women-energy,FOCUS SANAA Ten trailblazing Yemeni women have overcome scepticism and ridicule to bring electricity to their villages, illuminating lives with a micro-grid solar business that they hope to expand across their war-torn region. 700 words by correspondents in Sanaa with Mohamad Ali Harissi in Dubai. Picture. Video Health-virus-Italy-Bergamo,SCENE BERGAMO, Italy Images of army trucks transporting piled-up coffins out of the Italian town of Bergamo provided a shocking testament to the horrors of coronavirus and one year on, the memories are still raw. 650 words by Brigitte Hagemann. Pictures by Miguel Medina. Video by Francesco Gilioli Venezuela-death-poverty,FOCUS CARACAS Dragging a dead rat by a string, 11-year-old Jendry scoots on a single roller skate amongst the tombs and graves at a massive cemetery in the south of Caracas. 650 words by Margioni Bermudez. Pictures by Pedro Matey. Video by Hirsaid Gomez afp
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