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  1. TPLF soldiers on patrol in Mekelle in Tigray, Ethiopia - September 2026

  2. Ambassador Roelf Meyer

  3. Moses Usor applauds after a football match

  4. A woman sits on a rock in an arid landscape looking at her phone. She is wearing a white headscarf, blue jacket and a patterned skirt

  5. A man with grey hair, wearing glasses with black frames, a black suit, a white shirt, and a red tie, smiles into the camera

  6. A group of young African men jumping up and down as part of a training exercise. They are all wearing black and white Newcastle United kits. The ground is grassy and dusty and there are trees in the background.

  7. A soldier in khaki seen in profile. He is sitting on a stone step, holding am AK47 between his legs. Out of focus, another soldier can be seen behind him.

  8. A market seller packing food for the buyer

  9. A picture of Philip Mawer, who has white hair and is wearing a shirt.

  10. The image shows two elephants - a mother on the left and a small calf next to her on the right of the image. They appear to be eating forest plants. There is dense, green forest around them and their mouths are open as if mid-meal.

  11. A crowd at a political rally holding a banner for South Sudan President Salva Kiir that reads "Freedom, peace and prosperity next to his portrait wearing a black cowboy hat

  12. Four soldiers in green and beige military fatigues walk down a road with rifles by their sides. Their backs are to the camera. The road is lined with trees, including a palm tree

  13. A triptych showing the heads and shoulders of Pitso Mosimane, Patrick Vieira and Herve Renard. Mosimane is seen mid-speech while wearing a black suit jacket, white shirt and black tie, Vieira smiles wearing a blue-grey jacket over a white round-neck t-shirt and Renard has a pensive expression while wearing a plain white shirt open at the neck

  14. A yellow police tape with the words SA Police Service with several vehicles in the background

  15. Split-screen image. On the right, BBC correspondent Caroline Hawley. On the left, an aerial view of Chagos Islands.

  16. A man who is bald standing in a crowd who are all attending a festival in an outdoor venue in Birmingham. He is wearing a beige hoodie and has a short black beard and moustache.

  17. Five Nigeria players, with four wearing all-white strips and a goalkeeper in an all-red kit, line up for the national anthem before a football match. Four place their right hand on their heart while the player furthest left, Victor Osimhen, has his hands behind his back. The keeper, Stanley Nwabali, who is second from the right in the image, has his head bowed and is holding his gloves and a black towel at his side in his left hand. The stand of a stadium, which is mostly full, is out of focus in the background across the green pitch

  18. A woman walking by a wall in Tangiers with the electoral symbols of political parties painted on it.

  19. Shadrack Sibiya is seen with his hands up as he testifies at a public inquiry investigating police corruption

  20. Usman Muhammad leans against a wall with his head resting on his forearm.

  21. Mark Doyle's face, looking to the camera

  22. Court sketch of Dr Vincent Brown, a black man with short dark hair and glasses sat behind a glass screen in a white shirt.

  23. A headshot show Tatjana Smith smiling broadly as she holds up her 100m breaststroke gold medal during the medal ceremony at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

  24. Tatjana Smith holding her gold Olympic medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games