Nosmot Gbadamosi is a multimedia journalist and the writer of Foreign Policy’s weekly Africa Brief. She has reported on human rights, the environment, and sustainable development from across the African continent.
Students wave a Somali flag during a demonstration in support of Somalia's government following the port deal signed between Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland at Eng Yariisow Stadium in Mogadishu on Jan. 3.
Brahim Ghali, President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SARD) and Secretary-General of the Polisario front, salutes the flag of the SARD ahead of a Polisario congress at the refugee camp of Dakhla, which lies some 100 miles southeast of the Algerian city of Tindouf, on Jan. 13, 2023.
A U.N. armored vehicle drives along the Beni-Kasindi road, stronghold of the ADF (Allied Democratic Forces, an armed group originally from Uganda that pledged allegiance to ISIS in 2019 and operates in eastern DRC), on May 9 in Beni territory, North Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The head of head of Niger's military government General Abdourahmane Tchiani (R) and Malian Col. Assimi Goita (L) pose for a photo as they arrive in Niamey on July 6.
President Cyril Ramaphosa gestures to colleagues before casting his ballot as members of parliament vote for the President of South Africa during the first sitting of the new South African Parliament in Cape Town on June 14.
The President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, holds a press conference after the start of 100 days of remembrance, as Rwanda commemorates the 30th anniversary of the Tutsi genocide, on April 8, in Kigali, Rwanda.
President of the African National Congress (ANC) and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (C) attends the official announcement of the South African general election results in the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) National Results Center at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand, on June 2.
Protesters chant and hold placards against the U.K. deportation flights to Rwanda near Brook House Immigration Removal Centre on June 12, 2022 in London.
Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, transitional president and candidate for the presidential election in Chad, sits after his meeting in the stadium under construction in the Dombao district, in Moundou, on April 25, 2024. (Photo by Joris Bolomey / AFP)
Ishag Abdullah Khatir, 30 from Geneina in West Sudan whose leg was amputated after he was shot by RSF soldiers, walks through Ambelia refugee camp on April 20 in Adre, Chad.
