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  1. Arno Yafunga Botay, visible from chest up wearing a light grey hoodie underneath a blue judo jacket, stands side on to the camera in front of a white wall and looks over his right shoulder into the lens with a determined expression

  2. Energy Minister Juma Homera in yellow hard hat and yellow vest holds a microphone by a big poster as he announces to a small group and a photographer the discovery of 223 billion feet of natural gas.

  3. A young woman with dark skin smiling softly in a photo. Behind her is a large blue piece of wall

  4. Marry Mubaiwa in an image from 2018

  5. Egyptian journalist Lina Attalah sits on a black leather chair. She has a red scarf around her neck, a grey top, cropped black hair, stud earrings and and a silver metal studd in her right nostril, a broad smile on her lips.

  6. Ash Dykes holds up a rowing oar sat in a red kayak in the Congo basin.

  7. Ash Dykes in his kayak using paddle while making his way down a body of water. He is wearing a black cap and a green/blue long sleeve shirt. His kayak is orange.

  8. A health worker, wearing full protective clothing and gloves, puts on a face mask

  9. Family members sit outside the General Hospital to reclaim the bodies of their relatives in Minna, Niger State, 18 September

  10. Photo shows Jamal and Kamal Abubakari in a screenshot from their TikTok account

  11. Nigerian Islamic cleric Yahaya Masussuka, wearing northern Nigeria’s babbar riga dress, a hat and glasses, smiles as he looks out of a car

  12. A man holding a machete in the forest, in the other hand he holds his phone. He has a shouting expression.

  13. A man in a white robe, white knitted hat and grey coat holds a bowl as he waits for aid alongside a young boy in a red T-shirt, who is also holding a bowl.

  14. Ballon d’Or hosts Kate Scott and Thierry Henry, both dressed in black, stand in front of a screen showing a smiling picture of Christophe Gleizes. The number of days he has spent in prison is displayed on the screen in white and red.

  15. A herd of cattle with long horns and in the background a silhouette of a man herding the animals

  16. A military helicopter painted in beige camouflage with white patches flies above an Algerian flag, which has green and white halves and a red crescent and star in the centre.

  17. Women wearing colourful traditional Ethiopian dresses in green, red and gold, with long headscarves, pray outside a church. Some stand while others kneel.

  18. A health worker in a white lab coat holds a syringe as she prepares to administer a dose on a man's shoulder,

  19. A friendly-looking lion mascot holding up a large national flag of Senegal on a pole. The mascot, called Ayo, wears a colourful red-and-yellow traditional-style hat and a white T-shirt featuring the logo for the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games. The green, yellow, and red Senegalese flag with a green central star prominently fills the right side of the frame against an outdoor street backdrop with blurred crowd members and a metal crowd barrier

  20. Nigeria Police officers (file image)

  21. Icons of social media apps, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and WhatsApp, is displayed on a mobile phone screen. File photo

  22. A young woman in braces and a burgundy wig, wearing a green vest, smiling away from the camera with her head tilted to the left behind a red background

  23. An emergency worker saws through metal and concrete as others watch on at the site of a building collapse in Nairobi.

  24. Gerhard Erasmus