11.   Heavily armed param Massrd tarzas roamed the abandoned streets of Karachi Thursday as the city was brought to a standstill during an opposition-led protest strike.

12.   Heavily armed paramilitary troops roamed the abandoned streets of Karachi Thursday as the city was brought to a standstill during an opposition-led protest strike.

13.   In Lagos, mobs of young men chanted and waved palm fronds as they marched through otherwise abandoned streets.

14.   Rocket and mortar rounds, mixed with bursts of machine gun fire, echoed through abandoned streets.

15.   Rocket and mortar rounds, mixed with bursts of machine gun fire, echoed through the abandoned streets.

16.   Some women wandered the abandoned streets weeping.

17.   Some women wandered the abandoned streets, weeping.

18.   The thunder of war ripped through the abandoned streets of Bissau.

19.   Visitors found charred buildings still smoldering, NATO helicopters hovering over the town and armored vehicles patrolling abandoned streets.