Priscilla Sitienei, a 98-year-old primary school student in grade six, is helped to do an assignment by her classmates at the Leaders Vision Preparatory School in Ndalat village of Nandi County, Kenya on January 25, 2022. (Photo by Monicah Mwangi/Reuters)





Somali women who fled drought-stricken areas start to build shelters at a makeshift camp on the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Friday, February 4, 2022. Thousands of desperate families have fled a severe drought across large parts of Somalia, seeking food and water in camps for displaced people outside the capital. (Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo)





Supporters celebrate in Dakar on January 06, 2022, after Senegal won the Africa Cup of Nation (CAN) final against Egypt in Yaounde, Cameroon. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Costumed community members attend the annual Brixton Carnival of Lights in Johannesburg, South Africa, 06 February 2022. Members of the community organize the small but colorful carnival once a year to bring locals together and to parade through the streets. (Photo by Kim Ludbrook/EPA/EFE)





People carry the coffin of 5-year-old Rayan during his funeral after his body was retrieved from a deep well, in the village of Ighran in Morocco's Chefchaouen province, Monday, February 7, 2022. Five-year-old Rayan was pulled dead from a 32-meter (105 foot) deep dry well where he was trapped for five days. (Photo by Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP Photo)





A girl wearing hijab recites Islamic texts from a book in a school in Maiduguri, north-eastern Borno state, Nigeria, 07 February 2022. The Nigeria’s northeast has been a zone of terrorism over the past 12 years, with millions of people displaced, and many living in IDP camps, over the activities of the Islamic terrorists who are angered by formal, Western education. Normal daily life is gradually returning to Maiduguri, the epicenter of the crisis. (Photo by Akintunde Akinleye/EPA/EFE)





People extinguish the edge of a burning area to stop the spread of the last fire at Aberdare national park in Kenya on February 7, 2022. About 100 people from Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenyan Forestry Service, local NGOs and the neighbouring scout community terminated the last fire which broke out at the weekend, as suspicions of arson emerged. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)





Workers plant flowers under the newly constructed Nairobi expressway, where a plan is underway to plant more than 5 millions flowers on its pillars, in Nairobi, Kenya, February 8, 2022. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)





A parent transports her child to school using a bicycle in Harare, Wednesday, February 9, 2022. A pay strike by teachers has paralyzed learning at many Zimbabwean schools, which belatedly opened on Monday after a pandemic-induced prolonged closure. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





Schooldchildren wait to board the bus to school in Harare, Sunday, February 6, 2022. Zimbabwe schools reopen on Feb. 7 after a weeks long delay in allowing learners back following an upsurge in COVID-19 infections. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





A child cries after been dropped off at school by her parents in Harare, Wednesday, February 9, 2022. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





A parent crosses the road with her child on her way to school in Harare, Wednesday, February 9, 2022. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





Somali security secure the road leading to the scene of an explosion at a checkpoint near the Presidential palace in Mogadishu, Somalia, February 10, 2022. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)





Children look on as President Cyril Ramaphosa's cavalcade is expected at the City Hall in Cape Town, South African, Thursday, February 10, 2022. Ramaphosa will deliver his State of the Nation address at the City Hall instead of at the Parliament building which was gutted by fire last month. (Photo by Nardus Engelbrecht/AP Photo/Pool)





People protest against last year's military coup, in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, February 14, 2022. Sudan’s military authorities arrested Mohammed al-Faki Suliman, a former senior government official, for a second time, his party said, as thousands of people took to the streets around the country Monday to protest an October military coup. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A cyclist shops for a gift from a roadside open-air vendor during Valentine's Day celebrations amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Kamwokya, Kampala, Uganda on February 14, 2022. (Photo by Miriam Watsemba/Reuters)





A couple takes photographs of each other at the “Upside down house” tourist attraction near Johannesburg, South Africa, 15 February 2022. The tourist attraction is a first for South Africa and appears to be a house buit upside down and features rooms within the house that are also upside down, creating a unique and mind shifting experience. (Photo by Kim Ludbrook/EPA/EFE)





Pedestrians walk along a street in downtown Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tuesday, February 15, 2022. Ethiopian lawmakers voted Tuesday to end the country's three-month state of emergency, citing recent developments in the conflict, as mediation efforts continue to end the deadly war in the north. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A soldier applauds the presidential inauguration of Junta leader Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba during his swearing-in ceremony broadcast on national television on Wednesday, February 16, 2022 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The inauguration ceremony, not open to the general public, was held at the constitutional court. (Photo by Sophie Garcia/AP Photo)





A young boy runs past the wreckage of a vehicle destroyed in an attack on police and checkpoints on the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, February 16, 2022. The attack by the al-Shabab extremist group on Wednesday killed five people and wounded 16, police said. (Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo)