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  1. An archive picture of Olusegun Obasanjo from 1999. He is wearing a large white hat and addressing a crowd of people through a red microphone that he is holding.

  2. People travel by a boat as search and rescue operations continue following a boat accident, in a place given as Sokoto State, Nigeria.

  3. A couple of huts nestled by trees in the distance. behind it is a mountain.

  4. Angélique Kidjo smiles and lifts one arm in a long-sleeved dress with tasselled sleeves and a royal blue headwrap

  5. Jewel Howard-Taylor wears a blue lanyard and grey jacket, gold earring at an economic forum in Poland, 2021. She has shiny black hair.

  6. A colourful composite design features a smiling Mohamed Salah in the middle, holding the Premier League trophy across his torso, Antoine Semenyo to Salah's left and Ismaila Sarr on his right. Semenyo is shouting and gesticulating with his fists while wearing Manchester City home colours, with a light blue shirt with a white sash running across the front and white shorts. Salah is visible from waist up in a red Liverpool shirt which he is wearing back to front and which has the word 'champions' written in gold lettering across its top. Sarr is holding up his right hand and extending his index finger to point while wearing Crystal Palace home colours, with a shirt featuring wide red and blue vertical stripes and blue shorts. The design palette features an orange background, green central section around Salah in the shape of a three-pointed crown and untidy yellow lines sketched across it to create divides around Semenyo and Sarr, as well as another doodle of a three-pointed crown near Salah's head

  7. A rescue official works at the site of a tourist helicopter crash on a wooded hillside. The air is thick with smoke and there is wreckage on the ground.

  8. Mutotwe Kafwaya in black-rimmed glasses and a blue shirt

  9. Temwa Chawinga playing for San Diego Wave in July

  10. New Scotland Yard sign outside Met Police HQ in London

  11. The backs of three men as they look down into a pit at a mining site in the Central African Republic after a landslide

  12. Leon Baptiste

  13. A head and shoulders shot of Patrick Vieira shows him wearing a dark blue hoody over a light blue shirt

  14. Carlos Baleba celebrating for Brighton

  15. Miss Universe Nigeria Chidimma Adetshina is seen at a beauty pageant event

  16. A back view of person holding a small Liberian flag on a street in Monrovia

  17. Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema in green half-coat and black trousers lifts his hands to greet United Party for National Development supporters

  18. Afolabi Kazeem Micheal holds up a NDLEA sign with his name and age after his arrest in Lagos

  19. Patrick Vieria, wearing a white shirt and a blue jumper, stands with his hands on his hips

  20. A female survivor uses a tissue to wipe tears from her eyes during a memorial service held for victims of the capsized ferry at Nyamhunga Stadium in Kariba - 13 August 2026

  21. Manchester City's Ayyoub Bouaddi

  22. Promise Okoro poses for a selfie in a car with his goat.

  23. A triptych showing Lina Boussaha, Naomi Eto and Refiloe Jane celebrating goals at the 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations. Boussaha wears a white headscarf and Algeria kit with a green number 11 on it, Eto a green Cameroon shirt with a yellow 10 on it, and Jane a yellow South Africa shirt with a green 15 on the chest. Boussaha has a teeth-clenched and right arm raised, Eto smiles widely and Jane has her thumb in her mouth as she looks upwards while hiding a football under her shirt

  24. An election official displays a ballot paper as observers look on during the counting of votes after the polls closed at a polling station in Lusaka, Zambia