Queen Elizabeth II: Over the Years
Britain's longest-serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, died Thursday at the age of 96. VOA Africa shares some sightings of the late queen in Africa throughout the years.
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Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh meets people in Accra as part of a state visit in Ghana on November 17, 1961. (Photo by AFP)
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Queen Elizabeth II and Emperor Haile Selassie, the British Monarch's host on her state visit to Ethiopia, watch the Tississat Falls, the second largest in Africa. The Queen took motion pictures on falls during her visit there on Feb. 5, 1965. (AP Photo)
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Queen Elizabeth II meets Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie in Addis Abeba during a state visit in Ethiopia on February 1965. (Photo by AFP)
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Thousands of Malawian women cheer and wave their hands at Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Malawi's President Hastings Banda as they drive from the airport in Blantyre, Malawi on July 22, 1979.the Queen is on the second leg of her four-nation African tour. (AP Photo)