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  1. 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.

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

  3. 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

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

  5. An architect's drawing of Akon City.

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

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

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

  9. 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

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

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

  12. 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

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

  14. Keitumetse Dithebe playing football for Botswana

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

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

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

  18. Smoke coming up near Mogadishu airport

  19. Malian soldiers dressed in camouflage gear wield guns.

  20. 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

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

  22. Nigerian billionaire Aminu Dantata wearing a traditional cap

  23. A long line of Congolese soldiers

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