Men from Maasai tribe perform the traditional dance during the Enkipaata ceremony, a Maasai male rite of passage, specifically the initiation of boys, marking the transition from childhood to becoming a moran (warrior) in Olaimutiai, Narok County, Kenya Wednesday, April 23, 2024. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)





A woman processes gold at a mining site in the Kedougou region of Senegal on Thursday, January 16, 2025. (Photo by Annika Hammerschlag/AP Photo)





Members of Danuu collective walk next to life size animal puppets, part of the Herds public art and climate action project, in Ouakam district in Dakar on 26 April, 2025. A wildebeest, a gorilla and a giraffe are among the life-size puppets pursuing a 20,000-kilometre (12,400-mile) trek across the globe that started on April from the DR Congo capital, to raise awareness about migration due to climate change The animals are part of The Herds project and aim to have crossed around 10 countries between central Africa and the Arctic by August Their journey are taking them through Nigeria, Senegal, Morocco, France and Norway, among other countries. (Photo by Nicolas Remene/AFP Photo)





Puppeteers work with “The Herds”, animated life-size animals puppets made of recycled materials, in Dakar, Senegal, 25 April 2025. The Herds is a public art initiative by The Walk Productions featuring hundreds of life-size animal puppets, which will travel to 20 cities from Africa to the Arctic Circle over four months to raise awareness of the climate crisis. (Photo by Jerome Favre/EPA/EFE)





Puppeteers work with “The Herds”, animated life-size animals puppets made of recycled materials, in Dakar, Senegal, 25 April 2025. (Photo by Jerome Favre/EPA/EFE)





Puppeteers work with “The Herds”, animated life-size animals puppets made of recycled materials, in Dakar, Senegal, 25 April 2025. (Photo by Jerome Favre/EPA/EFE)





Puppeteers work with “The Herds”, animated life-size animals puppets made of recycled materials, in Dakar, Senegal, 25 April 2025. (Photo by Jerome Favre/EPA/EFE)





Puppeteers work with “The Herds”, animated life-size animals puppets made of recycled materials, in Dakar, Senegal, 25 April 2025. (Photo by Jerome Favre/EPA/EFE)





Kumpos, a traditional figure and dance from the Jola people of the Casamance region of Senegal and Gambia, perform as they wait for puppeteers moving life-size animal puppets arrival on the Malibu beach in the Guediawaye district of Dakar, on April 27, 2025 during the 3rd and final day of performance as part of The Herds public art and climate action project. A wildebeest, a gorilla and a giraffe are among the life-size puppets pursuing a 20,000-kilometre (12,400-mile) trek across the globe that started on April from the DR Congo capital, to raise awareness about migration due to climate change. The animals are part of The Herds project and aim to have crossed around 10 countries between central Africa and the Arctic by August. Their journey are taking them through Nigeria, Senegal, Morocco, France and Norway, among other countries. (Photo by Nicolas Remene/AFP Photo)





Workers transport cow feed on their bicycles as they head to a market along a road near Gihanga, on the outskirts of Bujumbura, on May 8, 2025. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





Evangelists preach to fishermen from atop a pirogue turned on the ground at the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Bujumbura, on May 9, 2025. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





A Somali family wades through flood waters, as they flee after overnight rains destroyed their home, in Wadajir district of Mogadishu, Somalia on May 10, 2025. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)





A drone view shows the cooling towers of the defunct Orlando Power Station, a distinctive landmark now used as an advertising display and a bungee jump set up between them, in Soweto, South Africa, on May 12, 2025. (Photo by Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)





Maria Molefe, 72, dances while competing in the Sukuma Mbokodo Support Group's Elderly Beauty Contest in Thokoza, South Africa on May 13, 2025. (Photo by Phill Magakoe/AFP Photo)





A camel stands in a pen at an 800-year-old pottery workshop in Guellala in the southern Mediterranean resort island of Djerba on May 14, 2025. (Photo by Fethi Belaid/AFP Photo)





A young porter carries goods for their clients while unloading a container of flour at Birere Market in Goma on May 15, 2025. After the city fell to the Rwanda-backed M23 group, authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo stopped supplying cash to banks in M23-controlled areas. Banks have since closed, cash points are all but empty and residents of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, are forced to fend for themselves for their everyday purchases. (Photo by Jospin Mwisha/AFP Photo)





A masquerade performs at the Liberty Stadium during the World Egungun (masquerade) Festival in Ibadan, Nigeria's third largest city by population in Oyo State, Nigeria, on May 15, 2025. (Photo by Sodiq Adelakun/Reuters)





Two Displaced persons, presumed to be Rwandan nationals, sit in a large bus with there children after undergoing checks at the border, between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, in Goma on May 19, 2025. They were transported by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) vehicles as part of their repatriation to Rwanda. (Photo by Jospin Mwisha/AFP Photo)





Residents walk across a flooded road following severe weather with heavy rain from a cold front in Masiphumelele, Cape Town, South Africa on May 20, 2025. (Photo by Nic Bothma/Reuters)