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  1. A triptych showing, from left to right, Pape Gueye celebrating his goal for Senegal during the 2025 Afcon final, a black gavel resting its block, and Morocco forward Brahim diaz looking disconsolate. Gueye, visible from waist up wearing a green jersey, is running with his mouth wide open as he screams in joy while his right hand is spread in front of his chest as if he it about to beat it. The head of the gavel, which stands out boldly against a white background, features a copper band around its middle. Diaz, also visible from waist up, is wearing a white Morocco away jersey with red and green trim

  2. A Nigerian police vehicle is stationed outside the premises of Baptist Nursery and Primary School, in Oyo State, Nigeria, June 2, 2026, where gunmen abducted dozens of students and teachers

  3. Wicknell Chivayo leans against a white Rolls-Royce with a yellow number plate with the letters "SIR"

  4. A cropped image of Eritrean soldiers

  5. A nurse wears in white protective clothes and blue gloves, wears a face mask

  6. A medium-shot portrait captures a man in a taupe-brown suit jacket over a crisp white collared shirt, paired with a patterned gold tie, seated inside a warmly lit room. He has a short, neatly styled light brown hair and maintains a neutral, attentive expression while facing slightly off-camera to his left.

  7. Lionel Messi

  8. Bangladesh's Litton Das and Afghanistan's Hashmatullah Shahidi after a Test match in 2023

  9. A health worker prepares to administer a vaccine developed for a strain of the Ebola virus at the Provincial Laboratory of Ituri in the north-eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on September 19, 2026

  10. Argentine player, Lionel Messi wearing a blue striped jersey and a black short with three-stripes on his shoulder and short, walking. In the center of the frame, Nigeria's coach, Gernot Rohr stands along the touchline dressed in a navy blue polo shirt and dark jeans. He faces the field with both arms raised and hands open, palms facing upward in a gesture of disbelief or questioning.

  11. The Olympic rings mounted on the Eiffel Tower

  12. Remnants of a Nigerian military plane that crashed while carrying several passengers and crew members, in Ondo state

  13. Undated composite picture showing the six journalists from the independent fact-checking platform Matsda2sh who were arrested in Egypt on 28 and 29 September 2026

  14. A bouquet made from folded Ghanaian cedi banknotes, wrapped in bright red paper

  15. Steve Mounie split with Lionel Messi

  16. A white football with black panels on grass, with a goal net in the background

  17. A man wearing a T-shirt speaks to a microphone, with hand holding a smartphone directed towards him. A red car is visible in the background

  18. A member of the Ethiopian pro-government Tigray Peace Force (TPF) monitors activity on a street while holding a gun. He is in a camo jacket and trousers. A man wearing a white jumper and jeans walks behind him.

  19. Julian Alvarez

  20. Author Sylvia Vetta sitting outside beside Nancy Mudenyo Hunt from the Nasio Trust. They are both smiling and holding copies of their book Not SO Black and White. It is a sunny day.

  21. A man standing in the aisle of a bus reading from the Bible with his arm outstretched, showing the palm of his hand. Passengers are sitting on red seats with their backs to the camera

  22. A close up short of a man speaking looking directly forward. He has a short beard, is wearing a dark grey long-sleeve shirt. The background features dark laundry hanging out to dry on a clothesline.

  23. Armed men on armoured vehicles drive through Alamata, Ethiopia

  24. Naomi Korir pictured from stomach up running from left to right during a race. She wears a Kenya running vest made of up light and dark red diamond and chevron patterns with thin green grid lines running over the top and the word 'Kenya' in white letters across the chest. Korir has a fixed expression exuding effort and is pumping her arms hard