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Today's African proverb has been:
Quote MessageI don't eat the carcass, but I drink the soup made from it
A Somali proverb sent by Abdiweli Hassan, Bosasso, Puntland, Somalia.
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And we leave you with this picture of a de-horned black rhino taken today in Klerksdorp, South Africa: