A Sudanese man inspects a house, damaged due to floods, in the al-Qanaa village in Sudan’s southern White Nile state on September 14, 2021. Last year, Sudan was forced to declare a three-month state of emergency after facing “the worst flooding” in a century that killed around 140 people and affected some 900,000 people, according to the United Nations. The floods this year have so far killed around 84 people nationwide and damaged or destroyed around 35,000 homes nationwide, Sudanese authorities said. (Photo by Ashraf Shazly/AFP Photo)
Medical personnel carry a body after a car bomb attack at a Presidential Palace checkpoint in Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday September 25, 2021. Police said a vehicle laden with explosives rammed into cars and trucks at a checkpoint leading to the entrance of the Presidential Palace, killing at least eight people. (Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo)
A police officer keeps watch as Red Crescent workers remove the body of a victim at the scene of a suicide car bomb explosion near the president’s residence, in Mogadishu, Somalia, September 25, 2021. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)
A young woman prepares to get vaccinated against COVID-19 at a health facility in Harare, Zimbabwe on Friday, September 24, 2021. Many employers in Zimbabwe are mandating COVID-19 vaccines for their staff, and the government has its own requirement that its 500,000 employees get the shots. That sets the southern African nation apart from nearly every other on the continent, where the most immediate challenge is still simply acquiring enough doses. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)
Fikiri Kiponda, left, and Wilson Saro, right, carry a green turtle that was unintentionally caught in a fisherman’s net, before releasing it back into the Watamu National Marine Park on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya Wednesday, September 22, 2021. A former accountant, Kiponda and the Local Ocean Conservation group rescue sea turtles that have been caught in fishermen’s nets, and then release them back into the marine park or treat injured ones at a rescue center until they are fit. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)
The festival of Maskel is celebrated across Ethiopia Sunday, September 26, 2021, to commemorate the unearthing of the True Holy Cross of Christ. Celebrations begin with the building of the Damera bonfire in Maskel Square in Addis Ababa – a conical pyre of poles surrounded by bundles of branches and torches, decorated with green grass and Abyssinian daisies symbolizing the New Year. Hundreds of thousands of people from diverse communities flock to the square as colourfully dressed priests chant hymns and prayers and perform their unique rhythmic dance in front of the pyre. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)
Two young boys use a computer at an internet cafe in the low-income Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, September 29, 2021. Instead of serving Africa’s internet development, millions of internet addresses reserved for Africa have been waylaid, some fraudulently, including in insider machinations linked to a former top employee of the nonprofit that assigns the continent’s addresses. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)
A customer uses the Wi-Fi on her mobile phone at an internet cafe in the low-income Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, September 29, 2021. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)
A man walks past an information mural telling people to wear masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, on a street in Mombasa, Kenya Monday, September 27, 2021. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)
A man sprays himself water during the celebration of “Irreechaa”, the Oromo people thanksgiving holiday, on the shore of a lake near the city of Bishoftu, Ethiopia, on October 3, 2021. Scores of people died in the October 2016 stampede that marred the celebration of Irreecha, a thanksgiving festival for Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the Oromos. The carnage, triggered by soldiers using tear gas and live rounds to control anti-government protesters, was a major flashpoint in the years-long movement that swept Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s first Oromo ruler, to power. (Photo by Eduardo Soteras/AFP Photo)
Three women pose for a portrait with their feet in the water, in Dijeri village, on the outskirts of Juba, South Sudan, Friday, October 1, 2021. Dijeri was flooded for a week when the waters receded at the end of September. It is the second year in a row that river Luri floods the village. Floods have displaced around 426,000 people across the country since May, according to the U.N humanitarian affairs office. (Photo by Adrienne Surprenant/AP Photo)
Oromos throw grass and flowers into a pool of water as they celebrate the annual Irreecha festival in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Saturday, October 2, 2021. Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo, on Saturday celebrated the annual Thanksgiving festival of Irreecha, marking the end of winter where people thank God for the blessings of the past year and wish prosperity for the coming year. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)
Children play in a courtyard under a hung out laundry amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, within Kibera slums in Nairobi, Kenya on October 6, 2021. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)
Somali boys play football at the police school cemetery in Mogadishu, Somalia on October 8, 2021. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)
Burkina Faso Police sit outside the courtroom where 14 people, including former President Blaise Compaore, stand trial as charged with the murder of leader Thomas Sankara, in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso, Monday, October 11, 2021. A military court in Burkina Faso has started the trial of 14 people including former President Compaore for the killing of influential leftist leader Thomas Sankara, who was ousted as president by Compaore in a 1987 coup. (Photo by Sam Mednick/AP Photo)
An aerial view of elephants living in Amboseli National Park, hosting large elephant herds, as the elephant births have increased in the last few months in Kajiado, Kenya on October 09, 2021. With the baby elephant population boom in Amboseli National Park, located in foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, across the border in Tanzania, Kenyan authorities announced that up to now they have collected 149 thousand of the 900 thousand dollars they targeted for the protection of elephants by June 2022. This announcement was made during the opening of the Magic Kenya Tembo Naming Festival held in Amboseli National Park on Saturday. (Photo by Andrew Wasike/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
A woman dances to the rhythm of the Mandinka drums during the Kankurang ritual in Bakau, Gambia, Saturday, October 2, 2021. The ritual is associated with circumcision and initiatory rites. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)
A sea of plastic and clothes waste covers the beach in the coastal fishing community of Jamestown in Accra, Ghana on October 14, 2021. (Photo by Muntaka Chasant/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
A woman pushes her scooter past the entrance of FESPACO (Pan-African Film & TV Festival of Ouagadougou) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Friday October 15, 2021. The event, now in its 52nd year, is attracting filmmakers and moviegoers from across the continent and the globe. (Photo by Sam Mednick/AP Photo)
Tsimamkele Crankydy Xako, 28, center, a professional dancer, practices with others at the Soweto Moves Projects dance studio in Soweto, South Africa, Tuesday October 5, 2021. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)
