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  1. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, seen wearing a black suit and red tie, stands next to his US counterpart to his right, Donald Trump, who is seen wearing a navy blue suit and blue tie

  2. Two female arm wrestlers, one wearing a head scarf, clasp hands and hold handles on a table as a partially-obscured referee prepares them for a contest

  3. Two female arm wrestlers, one wearing a head scarf, clasp hands and hold handles on a table as a partially-obscured referee prepares them for a contest

  4. Three girls wearing white leotards and tutus stretch their arms out.

  5. A US Air Force plane sits in the runway. The nose of the grey aircraft and two engines on the left wing can be seen along with some ground crew in orange hi-viz jackets.

  6. Pedri of FC Barcelona raises the La Liga trophy in front of his team-mates

  7. Casually dressed men and women in their 20s sitting together and smiling as they lift beer bottles for celebratory toast.

  8. A yellow painted metal red-rimmed bowl full of maize is being filling from a container full of dried kernels. A man's hand holds the bowl and his other is cupped and filled with maize - Gwoza, Nigeria, July 2025.

  9. A police officer moving towards protesters on a street in Luanda. Some of them can be seen in the hazy distance; in the foreground a protester in a red shirt runs towards the camera. A man on a bike can be seen swerving behind the officer. Debris can be seen burning on the road where a police vehicle can also be seen - 28 July 2025.

  10. Traders chat at a market in Zanzibar as other shoppers, including a woman in a headscarf and sunglasses, walk past.

  11. A bowl holding the fruit of the kudra plant lies on a dirt floor. The fruits' outer casing lies next to the bowl.

  12. Ibtissam Jraidi, the Women's Africa Cup of Nations trophy and Ashleigh Plumptre

  13. Hansie Cronje with her hands behind his head

  14. Three men burn wood on a road in Luanda. Next to one of the men is a partially burnt tree trunk lying on the ground.

  15. Migrant arrivals from North Africa sit wearing masks in a crowded hall in Crete

  16. Alassane Ouattara smiles, wearing a dark jacket and a white shirt.

  17. Ciara, wearing a black dress and long black braids, holds up her citizenship documents.

  18. Alino Faso speaks into a microphone, wearing a grey and blue top and glasses.

  19. Nigeria’s Super Falcons captain Rasheedat Ajibade holds the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations trophy as supporters cheer behind her.

  20. Hands holding the barrel of a rifle.

  21. A triptych showing Morocco's Ibtissam Jraidi in red kit, Nigeria's Rasheedat Ajibade in green and white kit with golden trophy made up of a female footballer on top of an outline of the African continent, and Zambia's Barbra Banda raising her arms to celebrate while wearing an orange jersey

  22. Aletta Seleso, a worker at a garment factory that produces Trump-branded golf shirt

  23. Orla Prendergast

  24. A screengrab from an Islamic State propaganda video showing a man wearing camouflage and holding a gun in a village