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  1. A woman with black painted nails presses a heart on a mobile phone

  2. Inaki Williams, visible from stomach up wearing a white Ghana shirt with an intricate green, red and yellow spiderweb pattern on the chest, chases after a bouncing ball which is out of focus in the foreground during a match

  3. Man in yellow t-shirt stands in piles of rubble and corrugated iron while three other people stand on the left of the picture. The rubble seems to go on for some distance and the air is hazy.

  4. Algerian flag on a pole flying in the wind

  5. Edward Rukidi Kijanangoma wearing a dark suit and tie smiling

  6. Man holding a round device that has the flags of Mali, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Niger and Russia attached to it. He is standing in a crowd and there are other people next to him.

  7. Prince Harry announcing Uganda joining the Invictus Games in July

  8. Migrants queue for a Red Cross food distribution at Trampolin beach, following recent mass crossings of migrants from Morocco to Ceuta.

  9. With a blurred crowd in the background, Jordan Hermann, in a yellow and green jersey and dark-coloured helmet, bats for South Africa, holding the bat up to his right with both hands

  10. Joy-Lance Mickels, with hair dyed a light pink colour and styled extravagantly by being pushed high above his head but shaved entirely at the sides, is visible from chest up wearing a black Sabah shirt. He points with his right index finger to the bright pink club badge which reads 'Sabah' on his left breast as he looks into the camera. He stands against a black background bearing pink zigzag patterns reminiscent of lightning bolts

  11. Police officers patrol a street as burning tyres and debris send flames and thick smoke into the air during protests over prolonged power cuts in The Gambia.

  12. George Desmond Kamurasi

  13. A triptych showing Sadio Mane, the Ballon d'Or trophy and Achraf Hakimi. Mane wears a green Senegal kit with a yellow number 10 on the chest while Hakimi wears a red Morocco shirt with a gold number two on the chest. The golden Ballon d'Or trophy which sits between them is a football divided into hexagonal patches sitting atop a glittering chunk of mineral ore

  14. A woman sits at the foot of a bed that has a male patient on it. There are filled beds behind her.

  15. Burundian nationals, some with their belongings, gather at their embassy in Nairobi. A man on the right hold his hands to his face

  16. A close up of his face. He is wearing a black blazer, white shirt and blue printed tie

  17. Image of Mohammed holding his camera next to the newly married couple

  18. Wearing a dark blue polo shirt, David Etor smiles at the camera while standing on a brick path. He also wears black rimmed glasses, while either side of him in the background, large satellite dishes can be seen. To his left are also several benches.

  19. A colour map of the world on Mercator's projection. Archive photo

  20. A group of people in traditional African dress, mostly made of white sheets of cloth wrapped around them. There are men, women and children among them. They are posing in front of a wooden hut. The black and white photo is old and faded. In the corner it is marked with the words 'Interior of Somali Village, Bradford Exhibition'

  21. Sarah Khalifa wearing a white long-shirted with her folded left arm, the hand touching her long hair, sits by the side of a road inside a red-roped cordoned area, beyong which people walk on a road the other side of which has rows of sunbathed buildings

  22. A man in a blue boubou drapes a Russian flag over his head. A group of people in army uniforms can be seen to the right of the picture.

  23. Side-by-side maps of Africa comparing two map projections. The Mercator projection on the left makes Africa appear smaller in comparison with Europe to its north. The Equal Earth projection on the right shows a longer, more proportionally accurate shape of the continent.

  24. People standing at the edge of a waterway, their backs to the camera, looking on anxiously as boats (not visible) retrieve victims