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.
A Russian flags from a statue of a soldier holding a gun. People holding cell phones appear to take pictures at right as cars, motorbikes, and people are seen on a street behind them.
A pile of rubble from a destroyed building sits between two mostly intact single-story structures. The sun is visible overhead, low in the sky as it permeates through gray partial cloud cover.
Two people are seen from behind, one wearing a long draping head covering, the other the outline of a young boy, along with other people in the street in front of the spires of a mosque with a crescent moon and a church with a cross.
