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  1. 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.

  2. George Desmond Kamurasi

  3. 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

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

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

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

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

  8. 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.

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

  10. 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'

  11. 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

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

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

  15. Family members and mourners attend a ceremony to receive the coffin with the body of King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV at Entebbe airport. The casket is draped in the Tooro kingdom flag and the Ugandan flag. A portrait of the monarch has been place at the front of the coffin and woman in a black shawl is kneeling before it.

  16. Tata Chemical plant, Kenya

  17. A close-up of someone's hand holding a large stove-top kettle and pouring a brown milky liquid into a yellow cup being held by someone else.

  18. Kayode is wearing a white t-shirt and is gesticulating as he speaks to his lawyer - who is dressed in a blue suit - as he leaves court

  19. Letsile Tebogo, wearing a predominantly light blue running vest, holds a bouquet of flowers and gives a thumbs up gesture to the camera

  20. The Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, addresses a plenary session of the Congress of Deputies on 3 September 2026 in Madrid

  21. Abraham Mofokeng in a brown patterned cardigan and beanie hat stands by a white monolith. Out of focus, in the background, are other white monoliths - they are part of a memorial.

  22. Carlos Queiroz is seen wearing a black Ghana training shirt, a necklace and a baseball cap with the word 'boss' on it

  23. William Ruto in a yellow shirt and cap gestures with his hand as he makes a speech holding a microphone in his other hand.

  24. Migrants disembark vessel in Arguineguín, Gran Canaria, Spain, on 3 September