An Egyptian dancer performs the Tanoura outside a coffee shop at al-Muizz street in the old Islamic quarter of Cairo on August 29, 2024. (Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP Photo)

Nestled among the cocoa plantations of western Ivory Coast is a gold mine that does not feature on any official maps. It is not run by an industrial mining company, nor does it pay taxes to the central government. The unlicensed mine is a key part of a lucrative business empire headed by the deputy commander of the West African nation's elite Republican Guard, United Nations investigators allege. Here: A gold prospector sits and eats close to a soldier at a gold mine near the village of Gamina, in western Ivory Coast, March 18, 2015. (Photo by Luc Gnago/Reuters)

Audrey Mata from Washington D.C in the U.S. dressed as Princess Leia, comes face to face with a replica of R2-D2 at the 'For The Love of The Force' Star Wars fan convention in Manchester, northern England, December 4, 2015. (Photo by Phil Noble/Reuters)

An aircraft passes over houses at it lands at Heathrow Airport near London, Britain, December 11, 2015. Picture taken December 11, 2015. (Photo by Neil Hall/Reuters)

Paris Photo is the largest international art fair dedicated to the photographic medium and is held each November at the historic Grand Palais in Paris, France on November 7, 2018. Since 1997, the Fair’s mission is to promote and nurture photographic creation and the galleries, publishers and artists at its source. The 22nd edition of Paris Photo will takes place Thursday, November 8 through Sunday, November 11. (Photo by IBO/SIPA Press/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

A man selling bags of water is seen at a taxi parking bay lined with campaign posters in the district of Lingwala in Kinshasa on December 18, 2018. Democratic Republic of Congo goes to the polls on December 23, 2018 in elections which could see the country emerge from 17 years of conflict-ridden rule under controversial President Joseph Kabila. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)

Family members watch on as a bride and groom leave their house to be married in West Mosul on November 3, 2017 in Mosul, Iraq. Five months after Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city was liberated from ISIL in a nine-month long battle, residents have returned to the destroyed city to rebuild their lives. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

A “super blood blue moon” is seen during an eclipse behind an elephant statue at a temple in Bangkok, Thailand, January 31, 2018. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)