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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: + IS steps up Sinai fight with bombs in civilian homes + Mozambique jihadists push masses to Pemba + Careless talk costs lives: a North Korean execution + 'Terrified' survivors recount attacks on civilians in Tigray + Once upon a time: Pakistan's fabled storytellers fade away Egypt-unrest-Sinai-IS,FOCUS CAIRO Residents of Egypt's restive North Sinai region ran for their lives when an Islamic State group affiliate occupied their villages. Now, they are returning to find their homes booby-trapped. 830 words by Farid Farid with an AFP reporter in Ismailia. Picture. Video Mozambique-migration-conflict PEMBA, Mozambique The population has soared in Pemba, a northern Mozambique port known for its wide bay, but rather than tourists coming for a swim, the newcomers have fled Islamic extremists. 600 words by Emidio Jozine and Alfredo Zuniga. Picture Video NKorea-SKorea-diplomacy-mining-family,SCENE As a teenager in North Korea, Lee Soon-keum bitterly resented her prisoner-of-war father as his status meant she would have to toil in coal mines like him. Years later, she says she was forced to watch him and her brother executed by firing squad. 400 words by Sunghee Hwang. Picture. Video Ethiopia-conflict-Tigray,FOCUS BISOBER, Ethiopia Jano Admasi says she watched as Ethiopian soldiers shot her son dead in front of her in their village in southern Tigray, where AFP recently obtained exclusive access. 900 words by Robbie Corey-Boulet. Pictures by Eduardo Soteras. Video by Solan Kolli. Graphic Pakistan-history-tradition,FOCUS SHOGRAN, Pakistan Mohammad Naseem's eyes shine while he shares the legend of a remote, alpine lake nestled among snow-capped Himalayan peaks as a rare crowd of onlookers hears one of Pakistan's last "storytellers". 700 words by Joris Fioriti and Sajjad Tarakzai afp
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