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  1. While making a thumbs-up sign and smiling for the cameras, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa shakes hands with a stern-looking Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Pretoria, South Africa, on 24 April 2025

  2. Benin soldiers wearing military uniform with their rifles strapped across their chests. Their faces have been cropped out

  3. A woman carries a bushel of bananas on her head as she takes them through a market.

  4. An armed member of the M23 rebel group standing guard in Goma, eastern DR Congo. He is wearing camouflaged uniform and hat, and is holding a walkie-talkie and a gun. He is looking at a hedge.

  5. Jordanian police stand outside an office of the Islamic Action Front in Amman, Jordan (23 April 2025)

  6. A black woman smiles at the camera, wearing a gold crown and pink dress. She has long black hair past her shoulders.

  7. A close-up of Massad Boulos in Kigali, Rwanda April 8, 2025. He is wearing glasses, a goatee beard and a grey suit, with a blue tie.

  8. Gertrude Torkornoo, wearing a judge's wig, smiles at the camera

  9. Zimbabwe celebrate taking a Bangladesh wicket

  10. A group of four women, some dressed in nuns robes, carry a cross over a street in Durban, South Africa during a Good Friday procession on 18 April.

  11. Ivory Coast's main opposition leader Tidjane Thiam wearing a navy suit and tie with a white shirt and black spectacles

  12. Gertrude Torkornoo is pictured wearing a black outfit and beaded necklace

  13. A man in a green short-sleeved shirt carries a sack of food aid out of a warehouse, another person carrying a sack can be seen behind him.

  14. Five inmates at the Freetown Female Correctional Centre in Sierra Leone are seen from behind wearing grey polo shirts, light green shorts and green socks, but no boots, on a football pitch during a training session

  15. A screengrab of Security Minister Mahamadou Sana while making the attempt coup announcement on Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina (RTB) on 21 April

  16. Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama

  17. A woman clasps her hands in prayer as she stands at the front of a congregation in the Municipal Cathedral in San Jose on Monday

  18. Crowds cheer Pope Francis as he arrives at Kololo airstrip in Kampala

  19. Two lines of female contestants flank Messiah Hailemeskel. Two of the women playfully clutch Mr Messiah.

  20. Floyd Shivambu raising his first at a rally in December 2024. He is wearing a black cap with the letters MKP and a bright green and white shirt

  21. A lion standing in Nairobi National Park

  22. A close-up of Joseph Kabila with a shaved head and a beard, wearing a dark blue suit. He was speaking in Johannesburg, South Africa, on March 18, 2025.

  23. Sarah Williams, with an orange headscarf, sitting with two of her children in her lap

  24. Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, head of the National Salvation Front, speaks during a news conference in Tunis, Tunisia February 15, 2023