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  1. Thembi Kgatlana of South Africa smiles directly into the camera and strikes her trademark 'snake' celebration pose which sees her lift her right arm up with the hand tilted over as if to mimic a snake's head, with the left arm crossed horizontally across her chest and also with one knee raise off the floor up to waist level

  2. Mali's junta leader attends a meeting with Russia's President at the Kremlin in Moscow. He wears a white outfit and communicated with the help of a translation earphone. Behind him is the national flag of Mali.

  3. Inside a school classroom in Lusaka, Zambia, a woman wearing a red top places a ballot paper in a plastic ballot box with a purple lid. Some desks can be seen behind her.

  4. African Buffalo in the caldera of Ngorongoro, Ngorongoro Conservation Area

  5. Bruno Foucher in a black suit and tie and a white shirt speaks to a microphone

  6. A man with grey curly hair, a beard and black glasses speaks into a microphone.

  7. Cameroon goalkeeper Michaely Bihina, wearing an all-purple kit and wide blue headband, arches her back as she raises her right arm to push away a penalty

  8. Malawi striker Tabitha Chawinga runs towards the touchline with arms spread wide to either side of her body to celebrate a goal at the 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco. She wears all-red kit with green and black trim and is surrounded by a number of smiling team-mates who are running in her wake across the lush green pitch

  9. A griffon vulture standing on the ground, seen from the chest and neck up.

  10. Nobel Mendy

  11. A camera shoots up from a low level to show a female freestyler leaning to the side while balancing a football on her head underneath a cloudy sky

  12. The Kariba dam seen from one of its ridges, overlooking the reservoir and green landscape in the distance

  13. A police car is parked outside a row of beige houses next to a small area of green space. The sky is grey and the street is wet.

  14. A police officer interacts with security personnel at some wire gates. A yellow excavator can be seen in the background.

  15. A rusted, wrecked tank lies on the side of a rural road. Mountains are visible in the background.

  16. Owen Oseni

  17. A fire in a storage tank burns as firefighters work to control the blaze

  18. Smoke and flames from fire

  19. A woman in a patterned jacket and African wrap for a skirt stands at a ballot box putting her vote in. She is in an empty classroom and a blackboard can be seen behind her.

  20. A health worker in green scrubs helps another person put on their PPE. The person on the left of the picture is wearing full white protective gear and goggles.

  21. Faith Kipyegon, wearing an orange and green Kenyan athletics vest, with a gold medal on a purple ribbon bouncing around her neck, smiles broadly as she holds a Kenyan flag aloft behind her. The runner is visible from stomach up while a terracotta-coloured athletics track with white lines is seen out of focus in the background

  22. Sam Morsy

  23. A close up of a Mali army badge on the shoulder of a camouflage uniform.

  24. Esther Okoronkwo, wearing a white and green Nigeria shirt, holds out her arms to protect herself from Ousmanou Doudou, who wears a green Cameroon shirt over matching green undersleeves. Both players, who are visible from waist up, are looking intently up to a ball which is above Okoronkwo's head. An empty stand with blue and white seats is blurred in the background behind them