Jean Bernard, an eyewitness in Port-au-Prince, told CNN the city had no electricity Tuesday evening.

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"We hope to establish a continental plan for prevention, and if necessary a mechanism to fight this outbreak that has not yet affected Africa, " the AU's Peace and Security Commissioner Jean Ping said in Addis Ababa.

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Willis soon discovered Jean Gallotti and Albert Laprade's Le Jardin et la Maison Arabes au Maroc, a magnificent book featuring Lucien Vogel's photographs of the finest work from the '20s and line drawings clarifying, with great precision, the techniques used naming, for example, each tiny shape that creates the great sunburst of zellige.

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