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A Togolese soldier holding a machine gun keeps watch under a tree surrounded by used tyres as he monitors proceedings at Yemboate, the northern Togo border post with Burkina Faso, on February 17, 2020. Togolese security agencies have intensified surveillance around border with neighbouring Burkina Faso, and with strong army presence to check and prevent incursion of Jihadists into the country. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)