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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. WAFCON

  4. Sarah Burrows (left) in conversation with a man in a sports hall. They are both in wheelchairs. Sarah has a round ball in her lap. She has brown hair, tied back, and is wearing a red and green top. The man next to her has short black hair and is wearing a pink top.

  5. Vusimusi "Cat" Matlala, with the collar of a Fendi shirt sticking out above his jumper, gesticulates as he talks into a microphone.

  6. A row of men and women in medical uniforms and white wellington boots at the inauguration of a new Ebola treatment centre in Rwakole, Bunia, DR Congo.

  7. A person in the foreground wears pre- Victorian-era clothing and signs a document with a quil while wearing a hat, as people dressed in scantily clad slave robes walk through the street in chains in the background, during a re-enactment of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the courtyard of Christiansborg Castle in Accra, Ghana on 19 June.

  8. Marie Ngah Manga

  9. Moroccan security forces monitor dozens of migrants who have gathered on the outskirts of the border town of Castillejos, Morocco

  10. Michaely Bihina kneels back on her heels on a football pitch as she clasps her two hands in front of her body in celebration during a match at Wafcon 2026. The goalkeeper wears a white hairband, an all-purple kit, including undersleeves, and blue gloves

  11. A woman with reddish-brown hair and pink comb-shaped earrings smiles at the camera, wearing a pink and blue checked top with white embroidered trim. She's in a bookshop, with blurred shelves of books on the left and a display featuring copies her books on the right.

  12. An election official wearing an orange tabard and scarf holds up a ballot paper for inspection.

  13. Tabitha Chawinga raises her right arm in celebration and puts her left arm around the shoulder of Temwa Chawinga, who has dyed blue hair and a wide-mouthed smile on her face. Both players wear red Malawi shirts with black trim - Tabitha with a green captain's armband and a white number 11 on the front and Temwa with a number 10 on the chest. The pair are visible from stomatch up and a sparsely-populated stand can be seen out of focus in the background

  14. Rubber flotation rings sit on a beach in front of a line of arriving migrants in Ceuta.

  15. A close-up shot of Succès Masra holding his hands apart

  16. File photo of vehicles crossing a bridge over the Niger river in Niamey

  17. A man wearing a red turban and a blue blazer with a white shirt is holding a trophy that's in the shape of a lion that is clear.

  18. A health worker in personal protective equipment (PPE) stands near displaced people waiting for the burial of suspected Ebola victims at the Kigonze displaced persons camp, one month after an outbreak was declared, in Bunia, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, June 18, 2026.

  19. 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

  20. 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.

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

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

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

  24. 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