Caption: TOWNSHIP LIFE, Ivory Coast. Washing clothes, el banco, Yopougon, near Abidjan. West Africa. A huge sprawling township across the lagoon from the capital. It has a population of over a million. Yopougon has been the site of numerous massacres, a flash point, problems between Muslims and Christians. Residents are often poor and living in shanties. CDREF00386 .

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