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  1. JNIM fighters train in an undisclosed location in West Africa's Sahel region.

  2. Asisat Oshoala celebrates while playing for Nigeria

  3. A jubilant South Africa team, some with medals around their necks on green ribbons, pose with the Women's Africa Cup of Nations trophy in 2022

  4. Mama Diop, wearing a white Senegal shirt, chases after the ball

  5. In the background two bald men in blue overalls with hands and feet shackled sit on the plane, with one Asian man to one of their left and other faces not visible but more people sat with shackles in grey overalls. Uniformed men are stood around them

  6. Morocco players and staff celebrate in a huddle on the pitch near the touchline after scoring a late equaliser against Zambia at the 2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations

  7. Yoweri Museveni, in white shirt and with fist raised, speaks in Kampala, Uganda, on 5 June 2025

  8. A triptych showing Rasheedat Ajibade in dark green Nigeria kit, the Women's Africa Cup of Nations trophy and Morocco defender Nouhaila Benzina in red kit and headscarf

  9. Wizkid onstage at The 02 arena in London in November 2021. He has his back to the camera and is facing the audience, whose phones light up the eerie green atmosphere as dry ice lingers in the air.

  10. Zambia captain Barbra Banda raises both hands in the air as she celebrates a goal with team-mate Racheal Kundananji

  11. Arthur Ashe, in a blue tracksuit top, smiles as he holds up the Wimbledon trophy after winning the men's final on 5 July 1975.

  12. Kenyas President William Ruto gesticulates with his hands while he speaks into a microphone on stage at an interdenominational prayer service at Nakuru Athletic Club two years ago.

  13. A colourful image of five female footballers in a range of poses

  14. An official speaks during a memorial service of Sam Nujoma, Namibia's founding president, ahead of his state funeral. Nujoma's coffin, draped with the Namibian flag, is seen atop a red-covered podium

  15. Mali's Aissata Traore, Zambia's Barbra Banda, Nigeria's Asisat Oshoala and Morocco's Sanaa Mssoudy playing football

  16. An architect's drawing of Akon City.

  17. Elephant walking in South Luangwa National Park in eastern Zambia

  18. A close-up of Assimi Goïta wearing a white hut and shirt

  19. Peter Rufai, wearing a yellow goalkeeping top, dives to his right to save a shot during a football match

  20. A man inspects damage as he walks through the rubble by a destroyed car outside a house that was hit by an artillery shell in the Azhari district in the south of Khartoum on 6 June 2023

  21. Amusement park visitors talk, smile and laugh as they ride a bird-shaped carousel at Magic Land on 29 June.

  22. Angélique Kidjo sings into a microphone with her eyes closed. She wears gold hoop earrings, red lipstick and a brown headscarf.

  23. In red uniform, a member of Ethiopia's Republican March Band poses for a photo at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in Guba, Ethiopia, on 20 February 2022

  24. Peter Obi, on the left hand side of the composite photo, wears a black shirt and black-rimmed glasses. He is smiling in the photo. Atiku Abubakar, on the right hand side, wears glasses, a suit and a patterened tie.