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Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 15:53 GMT 16:53 UK

Your pictures: Eclipse in Africa

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BBC News website users in Africa sent us their pictures of the solar eclipse. Kwesi Tamakloe sent this picture from Ghana.

Photo: Augustine Atiah

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Another eclipse image from Ghana - Augustine Atiah sent this from the capital Accra.

Photo: Adeyemi Adegboye

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This is the sight Adeyemi Adegboye saw in Lagos, Nigeria.

Photo: Owen Ugiagbe

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Owen Ugiagbe in Benin City in Nigeria took this picture using his mobile phone.

Photo: Michele Hopper

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Michele Hopper in Lome, Togo took this with a Canon Rebel XT camera though an Orian XT-8 telescope.

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Irshad Shaikh photographed the eclipse as it was seen in Benghazi, Libya...

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...where a partial eclipse was experienced. (Photo: Irshad Shaikh)

Photo: Blandon Best

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Blandon Best took this photo in the desert, 60kms from Sabha, in Libya. He took it using his Nokia 6681 phone.

Photo: Nuno de Gois

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Nuno de Gois sent this picture from Cairo in Egypt.

Photo: Ahmed Samy

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Ahmed Samy took these in downtown Cairo by the Nile using a plastic media disc of a floppy disk as a filter. He switched from colour, sepia and black and white.

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