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.
Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé is received by the president of the Economic Community of West African States Commission, Omar Touray (left), and Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister Yusuf Tuggar (right) at the presidential villa in Abuja, Nigeria, on Feb. 24.
Members of the American Federation of Teachers and teachers unions representatives from Uganda and South Africa rally against Bridge Academies at the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings on April 21, 2017 in Washington.
A man walks past a Senegalese flag ahead of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko and Bassirou Diomaye Faye's campaign event in Cap Skirring, Senegal on on March 16.
A general view of land reclaimed by a Namibian farm worker is seen on November 26, 2019 on the outskirts of Ovitoto settlement in the Okahandja district area, Namibia.
Sudanese men who have fled from the war in Sudan line up during a cash assistance program at a Transit Centre for refugees in Renk, South Sudan on Feb. 15.
Demonstrators hold banners and flags in support of Somalia’s government following a port deal signed between Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland in Mogadishu on Jan. 3.
Palestinians carry flags and banners as they gather at Nelson Mandela Square in Ramallah, West Bank, to demonstrate in support of the genocide case filed by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice. Issam Rimawi/Anadolu via Getty Images