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![<p>After fleeing El Fasher, displaced Sudanese rest in the camp of Um Yanqur in western Darfur, November 3, 2025.</p>]()
By Mariel Ferragamo and Diana Roy![President Paul Biya attends the swearing-in for his eighth term at the Cameroon National Assembly Building in Yaounde, Cameroon on November 6, 2025.]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>Demonstrators carry placards during a march against xenophobia in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa, on April 23, 2015.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>Nigerian President Bola Tinubu leaves 10 Downing Street after meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer during his state visit to the United Kingdom, in London, England, on March 19, 2026.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony at the U.S. Institute of Peace, which the Trump administration renamed the Donald J Trump Institute of Peace, in Washington, D.C. on December 4, 2025.]()
By Michelle Gavin![Aerial imagery shows an overview of Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean.]()
By Mariel Ferragamo and Nathan Schoonover![Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi leaves after laying a wreath at the Mzee Jomo Kenyatta's mausoleum during his three-country African tour, as part of efforts to reduce the Islamic Republic's economic isolation.]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>Exhausted and covered in dust, a truck full of Sudanese refugees arrive on the outskirts of Oure Cassoni refugee camp in eastern Chad on November 30, 2025.</p>]()
By David J. Scheffer![Palestinians sell bread on a street beneath a destroyed building in Gaza City's Zawiya market on February 18, 2026, on the first days of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.]()
By Michael Werz![<p>People sit on a pickup truck as they prepare to travel about 250 kilometers south to Adré, on the Chad-Sudan border, at a transport station in Tine, eastern Chad, on November 25, 2025. The movement comes amid the ongoing conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese army.</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>A man sells newspapers in a street, following an attack on the international airport in Niamey, Niger, on January 30, 2026.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>Ugandan presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine), of the National Unity Platform party, flanked by his wife Barbara Kyagulanyi, are escorted by police and supporters as they arrive to cast their votes in the general election, within the Magere neighborhood of the Kasangati district in Kampala, Uganda, on January 15, 2026.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![An Iranian vessel leaves Simon's Town Naval Base as BRICS Plus navies, including China, Russia and Iran prepare for joint drills in South African waters in Cape Town, South Africa on January 13, 2026.]()
By Michelle Gavin![An Ethiopian flag flutters in the wind next to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, built along the Blue Nile, during its inauguration in Guba, Ethiopia on September 9, 2025.]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>Members of the Civilian Joint Task Force stand guard during a drill near a bush in Minna, Niger state, Nigeria, on November 29, 2025. Vigilante groups have stepped in to fill security gaps as rural communities face rising attacks and abductions by armed gangs.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>Ugandan Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, of the National Unity Platform party, addresses his supporters during a campaign rally ahead of the general elections in Kampala, Uganda on December 15, 2025. </p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>Nigeria police, Anti-Bomb squad, secure the scene of a U.S. airstrike in Northwest, Jabo, Nigeria, Friday on December 26, 2025. </p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>Displaced Sudanese flee Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur, Sudan, after attacks by the Rapid Support Forces, April 15, 2025.</p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![<p>Senegal’s Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko sits with Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, on the day he presents an economic recovery plan that will be implemented without incurring additional debt in Dakar, Senegal on August 1, 2025. </p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p> Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, U.S. President Donald Trump, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan hold up their signed agreements at the White House on August 8.</p>]()
By Abi McGowan and Mariel Ferragamo![<p>Soldiers patrol in front of Benin’s radio and television station after, according to Benin’s Interior Minister, the country’s armed forces thwarted the attempted coup against Beninese President Patrice Talon, in Cotonou, Benin, on December 7, 2025.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare
