Students at the Nguerendomo Primary School take part in a series of fun activities led by the school director Brice Nguilibet in Birao on August 12, 2024. Owing to the widespread nature of gender-based violence, conflict and other extreme factors, many of the children in Korsi are traumatized. The fighting in Sudan, which has killed tens of thousands and displaced a fifth of the population, has continued unabated despite the ongoing mediation efforts. Both forces have been accused of war crimes, including targeting civilians, indiscriminately shelling residential areas and looting or obstructing aid. (Photo by Amaury Falt-Brown/AFP Photo)





A young girl suffering from mpox waits for treatment at a clinic in Munigi, eastern Congo, Friday, August 16, 2024. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





This photograph take on August 20, 2024 shows locals preparing canoes to carry people following heavy rains that damaged National Road 25 from the Nigerien capital Niamey to the provinces of Tillabéri and Tahoua in western Niger. The rainy season from June to September regularly brings a heavy death toll. In 2022 there were 195 deaths and 400,000 people affected. (Photo by Boureima Hama/AFP Photo)





People sit at the Don Bosco refugee camp as Red Cross officials create awareness around mpox in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Thursday, August 22, 2023. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





Salamba Ndiaye, a 28-year-old who tried to migrate to Europe twice, is photographed at her family house in Thiaroye-Sur-Mer, Senegal, Friday, August 23, 2024. Ndiaye is one of thousands of young Senegalese who try to flee poverty and the lack of job opportunities in the West African country each year to head to Spain. More than 22,300 people have landed on the Canary Islands from January to mid-August this year. (Photo by Annika Hammerschlag/AP Photo)





The top three cosplay winners celebrate during an anime, manga and cosplay meeting at the second Otakukon event in Harare, Zimbabwe, on August 25, 2024. (Photo by Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)





Ugandan police officers arrest an environmental activist taking part in a protest against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project (EACOP) in Kampala on August 26, 2024. Ugandan police arrested 21 environmentalists in the capital Kampala on August 26, 2024 as they protested a controversial multi-billion-dollar oil development scheme, their lawyer said. The East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project (EACOP), headed by French oil giant TotalEnergies, involves drilling for oil in Uganda and sending the crude to Tanzania for export. (Photo by Badru Katumba/AFP Photo)





A demonstrator is detained by police during a protest against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project (EACOP) in Kampala, Uganda, 26 August 2024. The EACOP, backed by the French oil company Total and the state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation, with the Ugandan and Tanzanian government's holding minority stakes, is a crude oil pipeline in planning since 2013 which, when in operation, will transport oil produced from Uganda’s Lake Albert oilfields to the port of Tanga in Tanzania, where the oil will then be sold onwards to world markets. Environmentalists claim the route of the pipeline endangers several national parks and will displace tens of thousands of people from their homes. (Photo by Isaac Kasamani/EPA/EFE)





Aid and people are transported on an excavator following devastating floods, in Port Sudan, Sudan, on August 26, 2024. (Photo by El Tayeb Siddig/Reuters)





A young patron retreives her meal order from a robotic waiter's tray at the Robot Cafe, Kenya's first restaurant to employ humanoid robots as waiters, in Nairobi on August 27, 2024. Working alongside human staff, the robots are programmed with artificial intelligence and controlled remotely to provide services that include calling out welcomes to approaching patrons, serving up non-spillable orders and even belting out 'happy birthday' music on appropriate occassion. (Photo by Tony Karumba/AFP Photo)





A person sits on bags of aid on a makeshift raft while others wade through flood water, following devastating floods, in South Tokar, Red Sea State, Sudan, on August 28, 2024. (Photo by El Tayeb Siddig/Reuters)





Bodies of people killed by suspected Boko Haram Islamist extremists are transported for burial, in Tarmuwa, northeast Nigeria, Tuesday, September 3, 2024. (Photo by Michael Abu/AP Photo)





A woman reacts after visiting the burned dorm room at the Nyeri county's Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri county on September 6, 2024 after a fire broke out killing 17 children. At least 17 children died after a fire ripped through their primary school dormitory in central Kenya, police said Friday September 06, 2024. The blaze in Nyeri county's Hillside Endarasha Academy broke out at around midnight, police said, engulfing rooms where the children were sleeping. (Photo by Simon Maina/AFP Photo)





Houses are partially submerged following a dam collapse in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Tuesday, September 10, 2024. (Photo by Musa Ajit Borno/AP Photos)





People walk through floodwaters following a dam collapse in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Tuesday September 10, 2024. (Photo by Joshua Olatunji/AP Photos)





Sindile Mavundla known as Cape Town's “Bicycle Mayor” reacts to a rider during her first lesson in Pinelands where he is leading an initiative to promote the culture of cycling in Cape Town, South Africa, on September 13, 2024. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)





Muslim worshippers gather during Gamou celebrations at the Seydina Limamou Laye Mausoleum in the popular Yoff neighborhood in Dakar on September 15, 2024. Gamou is the celebration of the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Tanzanian police officers get out of a police vehicle while patrolling the streets ahead of a demonstration over the alleged kidnapping and killing of opposition members in Dar es Salaam on September 23, 2024. Police arrested Tanzania's top opposition figures on September 23, 2024, their party and police said, as the authorities moved to block a mass protest in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam Despite an official ban, the opposition Chadema party had vowed to go ahead with the rally over the alleged kidnapping and killing of its members by security forces. (Photo by Alinanuswe Mwanguku/AFP Photo)





Artists perform during a slum party in Oworonshoki district of Lagos, Nigeria, 24 September, 2024. The slum party is a yearly artistic dance festival initiated by Ennovate Dance House. It highlights the positive sides of the slum community and brings hope to the inhabitants. (Photo by Emmanuel Adegboye/EPA/EFE)





Plainclothes police officers attempt to detain Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi, along with other social justice activists, in front of the Office of the President as families of the victims, activists and civil society representatives gather to deliver a list of people who disappeared during demonstrations against the government proposed tax hikes, in Nairobi, Kenya on September 24, 2024. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)