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  1. A plume of smoke rises in the dark

  2. A fan celebrates. He is wearing a blue football shirt and holding up the Congolese flag behind his head

  3. Four uniformed soldiers are seen walking through a Cape Town township as part of their deployment to the area

  4. Lamine Yamal wearing a white Spain shirt

  5. A DRC fan celebrates after the team sealed its way to the World Cup

  6. Activists, one holding a Senegalese flag, take part in a march against homosexuality in Dakar, Senegal, 06 March 2026

  7. DR Congo defender Axel Tuanzebe celebrates a goal for his country against Jamaica in their World Cup play-off win. He is seen from waist up clenching his right fist at waist level while tilting his head up slightly, with eyes closed and a look of delight on his face

  8. DR Congo defender Axel Tuanzebe celebrates a goal for his country against Jamaica in their World Cup play-off win. He is seen from waist up clenching his right fist at waist level while tilting his head up slightly, with eyes closed and a look of delight on his face

  9. Robert Lewandowski

  10. Steve Clarke

  11. Ivory Coast v Scotland

  12. A team photo posed before a match by the Eritrean men's football side. The outfield players are wearing all-blue kit with red, green and gold trim. Five players in the front row bend forward with their hands placed on their knees, with the player on the far right of the front row holding a team pennant. Six players stand in the back row with their arms wrapped around the team-mate to either side. The goalkeeper is in a pink jersey with the number one on its chest. The players are on a green pitch with an empty wooden stand in the background

  13. A white football with black panels on grass, with a goal net in the background

  14. South Africans are seen picketing outside Nigeria's High Commission in Pretoria following the recognition of a Nigerian national as the leader of the Igbo people in East London

  15. Rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO), a South Sudanese anti-government force, take part in a military exercise

  16. Armed police officer stands beside the back of patrol trucks, holding a rifle in Jos, Plateau State.

  17. Namibia wicketkeeper Zane Green watches Scotland's Michael Leask hit out during a T20 World Cup match in 2024

  18. Women carrying firewood at Al Afad camp which hosts displaced people from the Darfur and Kurdufan regions

  19. Otto Addo points during Ghana's defeat by Germany

  20. A middle-aged man wears a red training top, dark grey shorts, red socks and green trainers, as he stands in a park with both hands raised in triumph above his head.

  21. Deniz Undav of Germany celebrates scoring his team's second goal

  22. Rabiu Kwankwaso looks ahead, wearing his trademark red cap and a white top.

  23. People pick steel bars as a bulldozer clears rubble at the site of the collapsed building in Accra

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