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.
Infantry soldiers following a British Army Training Unit in Kenya (BATUK) training excercise at the Loldaiga conservancy in Laikipia, Kenya, on Nov. 14, 2022.
Two Chinese construction workers wearing reflective vests push wheelbarrows down a paved plaza at a work site at Egypt’s new administrative capital project. Skyscrapers and palm trees line the street behind the workers.
(From L to R) South African Minister of Trade and Industry Ebrahim Patel, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, and Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi listen as Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his remarks virtually during the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on Aug. 22. (Photo by Marco Longari / AFP) (Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)
Mohamed Toumba, one of the leading figures of the National Council for the Protection of the Fatherland, at a demonstration of coup supporters in Niamey, Niger on Aug. 6.
A flag with the emblem of Russia hangs on a monument of Russian instructors in Bangui during a march in support of Russia's and China's presence in the Central African Republic.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) looks at South African President Cyril Ramaphosa as they address media after their talks in Kyiv on June 16.
Kenyan lawyer Mercy Mutemi (center) speaks to the media after filing a lawsuit against Meta, Facebook's parent company, at Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi.
Naledi Pandor, the South African minister of international relations and cooperation, and Sergey Lavrov, Russia's minister of foreign affairs, appear during a press conference at the BRICS foreign ministers' meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, on June 1.
Riot police disperse protesters with tear gas after the outlawed opposition group, The National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC), called for protests against the ruling Junta in Conakry on October 20, 2022.
Protesters hold a banner reading "Thank you Wagner," during a demonstration to celebrate France's announcement to withdraw French troops from Mali, in Bamako, on Feb. 19, 2022.
People fleeing violence between the Sudanese army and paramilitaries disembark a passenger bus at the Multaga rest stop near Ganetti in Sudan's Northern State on April 25.
