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

  2. 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

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

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

  5. 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

  6. A close up of Kassim Majaliwa wearing glasses and a floral shirt

  7. Keitumetse Dithebe playing football for Botswana

  8. A smiling President Cyril Ramaphosa shakes hands with John Steenhuisen of the Democratic Alliance - who is also smiling

  9. A aerial view of the coastline, showing waves breaking onto a rocky foreshore. there are gently sloping fields beyond

  10. A nugget of gold being held between a finger and thumb of an illegal miner in West Africa

  11. Smoke coming up near Mogadishu airport

  12. Malian soldiers dressed in camouflage gear wield guns.

  13. Five Nigeria players, including a goalkeeper wearing all yellow and a captain holding a Nigeria pendant, stand with their left hands on their chests to mark a national anthem while lining up before a match

  14. A black and white, head and shoulders image of William Tolbert.

  15. Nigerian billionaire Aminu Dantata wearing a traditional cap

  16. A long line of Congolese soldiers

  17. A man in a black jacket stands next to a tree, smiling

  18. A close up of a pair of hands holding five bullets.

  19. Legs of a African football player kicking the ball at a stadium

  20. Alawia Babiker Ahmed, with a headscarf, is seen talking in Sudan's Tawila town

  21. Boniface Kariuki in a black jacket and cap, holding his finger to his lips

  22. Makeshift barricades burn as people protest against Togo's longtime leader, Faure Gnassingbe, in Lomé, Togo.

  23. Kawtar Bentaleb, wearing a blue goalkeeper's jersey, gives a thumbs up gesture with her left hand

  24. A triptych showing, left, an artist's impression of the Stade Hassan II, centre, Rosella Ayane and Fatima Tagnaout celebrating a goal and, right, two female Morocco fans