A driver carrying empty plastic containers pauses on his way to buy fuel from Angola and sell it back in Muanda, western Democratic Republic of Congo Congo, Saturday, December 23, 2023. (Photo by Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP Photo)





Revellers cheer participants during the traditional Kafuke boat-racing festival, as part of the Christmas celebrations, in Lake Victoria at Budalangi's Marenga beach in Port Victoria of Bunyala Sub-County of Busia, Kenya on December 24, 2023. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





Hundreds of Legio Maria Church members gather in the town of Ugunja in Kenya's Kisumu province as part of Christmas Day and organized a march with their colorful costumes, on December 24, 2023 in Kisimu, Kenya. (Photo by Gerald Anderson/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Worshippers of the Legio Maria African Church Mission gather to pray during the Christmas Eve vigil mass in a church near Ugunja, on December 24, 2023. Legio Maria is an African independent religious movement that developed gradually and eventually separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the 1960s. The religious movement was initiated by repeated appearances of a mystic woman delivering messages about the incarnation of the Son of God as a black man. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





Holiday makers enjoys a day on the beach along the Coastal region at the Jomo Kenyatta Public beach in Mombasa County, Kenya, Monday December 25, 2023. (Photo by Gideon Maundu/AP Photo)





A man stands in front of a burnt out house following an attacked by gunmen in, Bokkos, north central Nigeria, Tuesday, December 26, 2023. Nigerian officials and survivors say at least 140 people were killed by gunmen who attacked remote villages in north-central Nigeria's Plateau state in the latest of such mass killings this year blamed on the West African nation's farmer-herder crisis. (Photo by AP Photo)





Security forces assault a supporter of presidential candidate Martin Fayulu during clashes outside his party's headquarters, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Wednesday, December 27, 2023. Fayulu, a main opposition candidate accused police of using live bullets to break up a protest Wednesday in Congo's capital, as demonstrators demanded a re-do for last week's presidential election. Fayulu is one of five opposition candidates who say the election should be rerun and question its credibility. Some rights groups and international observers also have questioned the vote. (Photo by Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP Photo)





Opposition supporters prepare to demonstrate, while riot police amass around Congolese opposition presidential candidate Martin Fayulu's headquarters to block a protest by the opposition who are calling for a re-run of last week's national election, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo on December 27, 2023. (Photo by Benoit Nyemba/Reuters)





A member of security forces fires during clashes with supporters of presidential candidate Martin Fayulu outside his party's headquarters, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Wednesday, December 27, 2023. Fayulu, a main opposition candidate accused police of using live bullets to break up a protest Wednesday in Congo's capital, as demonstrators demanded a re-do for last week's presidential election. Fayulu is one of five opposition candidates who say the election should be rerun and question its credibility. Some rights groups and international observers also have questioned the vote. (Photo by Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP Photo)





A performer wearing traditional outfit rides a horse at the start of the International Sahara Festival on December 27, 2023 in Douz, in southern Tunisia. (Photo by Fethi Belaid/AFP Photo)





A Somali man carries a fish at Liido beach in Mogadishu, Somalia on December 29, 2023. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)





Fireworks explode over the city during New Year's celebrations in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, January 1, 2024. (Photo by Sayyid Abdul Azim/AP Photo)





People celebrate with sparkles during the new year celebrations in Ijebu Imushin on January 1, 2024. (Photo by Samuel Alabi/AFP Photo)





Revelers celebrate the New Year in Hillbrow Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday, January 1, 2024. (Photo by Shiraaz Mohamed/AP Photo)





A spectator reacts during a bull fighting match to mark the new year on January 01, 2024 in Malinya, Kakamega County, Kenya. (Photo by Brian Ongoro/Getty Images)





Supporters and fans gather to dance and chant in between matches during a traditional bullfighting tournament in Malinya Stadium, near Kakamega on January 1, 2024. Bullfighting is a popular cultural practice in some areas of Western Kenya, particularly in Kakamega County. A huge tournament marks the beginning of every year in Malinya Stadium where thousands of spectators gather to watch, celebrate the new year and support their favourite bulls, but unlike the Spanish-style bullfighting, the Kakamega bullfighting involves bulls fighting each other. (Photo by Fredrik Lerneryd/AFP Photo)





Civilians dressed up in creative, military-style uniforms march in honor of the black African soldiers who were conscripted into the South African army to fight in World War I, during the Diturupa Festival in Mabopane, South Africa on January 2, 2024. (Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee/Reuters)





A participant performs during the Cape Town Minstrel Carnival, known in Afrikaans as the “Tweede Nuwejaar” (Second New Year), in Cape Town, South Africa on January 2, 2024. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)





Civilians dressed up in creative, military-style uniforms march in honor of the black African soldiers who were conscripted into the South African army to fight in World War I, during the Diturupa Festival in Mabopane, South Africa on January 2, 2024. (Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee/Reuters)





Students wave a Somali flag during a demonstration in support of Somalia's government following the port deal signed between Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland at Eng Yariisow Stadium in Mogadishu on January 3, 2024. Somalia vowed to defend its territory after a controversial Red Sea access deal between Ethiopia and the breakaway state of Somaliland that it branded as “aggression”. (Photo by Abdishukri Haybe/AFP Photo)