Residents of Pumula East township walk home after fetching water from a well, as temperatures soar during an El Nino-related heatwave and drought affecting a large part of the country, in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, on March 7, 2024. (Photo by KB Mpofu/Reuters)





A person goes through the initial stages of paragliding during a misty morning of training on Signal Hill, in Cape Town, South Africa, on March 8, 2024. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)





Dozens of war-displaced people stand in the courtyard of an elementary school where they have taken refuge in Minova, South Kivu province, in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on March 9, 2024. In early February, M23 rebels, backed by the Rwandan army, took control of the road linking Goma, capital of North Kivu, to Minova and Bukavu, causing the Congolese army to flee to Minova as well as tens of thousands of civilians. The only remaining access route to Minova is via Lake Kivu. Humanitarian aid for the nearly 300,000 displaced people in Minova is almost inexistent. In Eastern DRC, over 1.5 million people are displaced by the advance of the M23, which took up arms again at the end of 2021. (Photo by Alexis Huguet/AFP Photo)





A child jumps on a trampoline as others wait their turn in Alexandra near Johannesburg on March 9, 2024. (Photo by Emmanuel Croset/AFP Photo)





A child jumps on a trampoline as others wait their turn in Alexandra near Johannesburg on March 9, 2024. (Photo by Emmanuel Croset/AFP Photo)





Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters attend the IFP election manifesto launch at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, South Africa on March 10, 2024. (Photo by Rajesh Jantilal/AFP Photo)





Fire Tabernacle Prophetic Ministry choir members sing ahead of the arrival of African National Congress (ANC) president and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (not seen) at their church in Ekurhuleni on March 10, 2024 ahead of the South African Presidential elections scheduled for May 29, 2024. (Photo by Phill Magakoe/AFP Photo)





Somali police stand guard after an explosion at a shopping mall area that caused fire at the Bakara market in Mogadishu, Somalia on March 10, 2024. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)





A member of the Africa Roho Msalaba church throws a 2 month old baby into the air during the “Throwing babies into the air” ritual in Kibera Slum of Nairobi, Kenya on March 10, 2024. The babies of the members of the Africa Roho Msalaba church, who are not taken out of the house until they are 2 months old and are not allowed to be seen by strangers, are introduced to the community by being paraded through the streets with the 'throwing babies in the air' ritual. (Photo by Edwin Ndeke/Anadolu via Getty Images)





People clear out street stalls before a planned demolition in the historical Piazza neighbourhood of Addis Ababa on March 11, 2024. (Photo by Michele Spatari/AFP Photo)





Firefighters work to extinguish a vegetation fire near Hanover Park on the Cape Flats, in Cape Town, South Africa on March 11, 2024. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)





Workers at the tobacco auction floors inspect the crop during the opening of the tobacco selling season in Harare, Zimbabwe, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. Zimbabwe one of the worlds largest tobacco producers, on Wednesday opened its tobacco selling season. Officials and farmers said harvests and the quality of the crop declined due to a drought blamed on climate change and worsened by the El Niño weather phenomenon. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





People displaced by the ongoing fighting between Congolese forces and M23 rebels gather in a camp on the outskirts of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Wednesday, March 13, 2024, as OCHA (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) head and representative Ramesh Rajasingham, carries out a working visit to the region. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





Supporters of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko and presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye celebrate after the two men were released from prison, in Dakar on March 14, 2024. Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko and his second-in-command, presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye, were released from prison in Dakar on March 14, 10 days before the country's election. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Somalia security officers patrol near the SYL hotel building which was attacked on Thursday by al-Shabab Islamic extremist rebels in Mogadishu, Somalia, Friday March 15, 2024. The Somali extremist group al-Shabab said its fighters have attacked a hotel in the capital Mogadishu, where a loud explosion and gunfire were heard Thursday night. (Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo)





Residents of the township of Soweto, South Africa, queue for water Saturday, March 16, 2024. Thousands of South Africans are lining up for water as the country's largest city, Johannesburg, confronts an unprecedented collapse of its water system affecting millions of people. Residents rich and poor have never seen a shortage of this severity. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A Somali National Army soldier stands at attention during the morning briefing for trainee officers at the General Dhagabadan Training Centre in Mogadishu on March 19, 2024. European Union Training Mission in Somalia (EUTM-S) trainers instruct on a regular basis Somali soldiers on a range of topics, including urban combat, explosive devices detection and disposal, and protective engineering techniques. (Photo by Amaury Falt-Brown/AFP Photo)





Baye Fall followers chant during a celebration as they return from the Great Mosque in Touba to the house of Sheik Ndiguel Fall, a local marabout, on March 20, 2024. The Baye Fall is a Senegalese Muslim Sect and a branch of the Mouride brotherhood, Senegal's largest Muslim brotherhood. The Baye Fall believe that physical labour, which can consist of farming, construction work and cooking, is an act of prayer and devotion. They are also well known for their colourful clothing dreadlocks and mass chanting. (Photo by Marco Longari/AFP Photo)





A woman who scavenges recyclable materials for a living, center, walks past Marabou storks feeding on a mountain of garage amidst smoke from burning trash at Dandora, the largest garbage dump in the capital Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, March 20, 2024. U.N. agencies have warned that electrical and electronic waste is piling up worldwide while recycling rates continue to remain low and are likely to fall even further. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)





Carts ride past electoral posters in Dhara on March 21, 2024, as eighteen men and one woman are in the running on March 24 to become Senegal's fifth president. (Photo by Marco Longari/AFP Photo)