A young artisanal miner works in the Kamituga artisanal gold mine, in the South Kivu province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on September 20, 2024. At Kamituga, a town some 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Kitutu, gold mining is in full throttle. In one site mined by Congolese cooperative Mwenga Force, some 400 people delve into vast open pits hoping to make a few dollars a day. Artisanal mining is small-scale mining, carried out by individuals without big machinery and not employed by big businesses. Hundreds of foreign companies, most of which are Chinese owned, mine gold in the mineral-rich province often without permits and without declaring profits, according to local authorities. (Photo by Glody Murhabazi/AFP Photo)





Chinese martial arts teacher Liu Wei (C) practices an excercise with students of the Fourah Bay College Secondary School in Freetown during a training session at the Confucius Institute University of Sierra Leone on October 15, 2024. The Chinese language and martial arts teachings are becoming popular amongst school children in several school institutions in Freetown and at the Fourah Bay College Secondary School since it was established in the country in 2012 to promote people to people traditional and cultural exchanges and for deepening friendship and cooperation with the People's Republic of China. (Photo by Saidu Bah/AFP Photo)





Kenya Police officer and Nairobi County emergency responders inspect the rubble of a collapsed residential building at Kahawa West residential area in Nairobi on October 20, 2024. Response teams were responding to a building collapse in Nairobi, where people are feared trapped despite a vacation notice. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





Kenya Police officers give instructions to bystanders to evacuate the area next to a collapsed residential building at Kahawa West residential area in Nairobi on October 20, 2024. Response teams were responding to a building collapse in Nairobi, where people are feared trapped despite a vacation notice. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





A woman reacts to teargas as she runs past posters of FRELIMO, during a nationwide strike called by Mozambique presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane to protest the provisional results of an October 9 election, in Maputo, Mozambique on October 21, 2024. (Photo by Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)





A protester throws a stone during a nationwide strike called by Mozambique presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane to protest the provisional results of an October 9 election, in Maputo, Mozambique on October 21, 2024. (Photo by Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)





Supporters of the Optimist party for the development of Mozambique (PODEMOS) kneels over flowers placed in memory of two slain associates of the party during a strike called in Maputo, on October 21, 2024. A demonstration was dispersed with tear gas on Monday in the capital of Mozambique, which took on the air of a ghost town after a call for a general strike launched by the opponent Venancio Mondlane to denounce fraud during the presidential election, noted AFP. This demonstration comes two days after the assassination of two of the opponent's close associates, including his lawyer who was preparing an appeal to denounce fraud in the election of October 9. (Photo by Alfredo Zuniga/AFP Photo)





Residents sit in a pirogue as they move between submerged houses in the flooded area of Adankolo in Lokoja on October 21, 2024. (Photo by Olympia de Maismont/AFP Photo)





American, Tony Jetland holds his kite's strings during a practice run at Dolphin Beach ahead of this weekend's 30th Cape Town International Kite Festival, an awareness campaign for World Mental Health Day where kite enthusiasts gather to fly colourful kites to raise funds for mental health support, in Cape Town, South Africa, on October 22, 2024. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)





Shepherds move their sheep along a damaged road in Odobere on October 22, 2024. Floods along the Senegal river have affected over 55,000 people after heavy rain in the Senegal River Basin leaving many villages underwater and over 1,000 hectares of farm land submerged. (Photo by Guy Peterson/AFP Photo)





Internally displaced persons from the flood queue at St. Luke school used as a shelter in Lokoja on October 22, 2024. Human-caused climate change worsened floods that have killed hundreds of people and displaced millions in Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan this year, according to a study published on October 23, 2024. (Photo by Olympia de Maismont/AFP Photo)





People carry possessions on a pirogue over flood water flowing over a main road in Odobere on October 22, 2024. Floods along the Senegal river have affected over 55,000 people after heavy rain in the Senegal River Basin leaving many villages underwater and over 1,000 hectares of farm land submerged. (Photo by Guy Peterson/AFP Photo)





Teacher Suleyman Ba stands in a classroom of the Ecole de Diogel with water marks from flooding less then a week before and water still ankle deep in class rooms and waste deep in the court yard in Dioguel on October 22, 2024. Floods along the Senegal river have affected over 55,000 people after heavy rain in the Senegal River Basin leaving many villages underwater and over 1,000 hectares of farm land submerged. (Photo by Guy Peterson/AFP Photo)





A health worker gives medicine to a woman in St. Luke school, that is used as a shelter for internally displaced persons from the floods, in Lokoja on October 22, 2024. Human-caused climate change worsened floods that have killed hundreds of people and displaced millions in Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan this year, according to a study published on October 23, 2024. (Photo by Olympia de Maismont/AFP Photo)





A model wearing a creation by Nigerian designer Oshobor enters the catwalk during the Lagos Fashion Week on October 24, 2024. (Photo by Olympia de Maismont/AFP Photo)





A man stands on an overturned bin used by protesters as a barricade, after the ruling Frelimo party was declared the winner of this month's disputed election, in Maputo, Mozambique, on October 25, 2024. (Photo by Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)





A model wearing a creation by Nigerian designer Bubu Ogisi at Iamisigo brand poses for a photograph ahead of a private fashion show to launch the SS25 collection during Lagos Fashion Week in Lagos on October 27, 2024. (Photo by Olympia de Maismont/AFP Photo)





A voter (C) casts her ballot as an electoral official (L) and a Botswana Police officer (R) look on at the Gaborone Block 8 polling station in Gaborone on October 30, 2024, during Botswana's general election. (Photo by Monirul Bhuiyan/AFP Photo)





Members of the medical community in Mozambique march to the monument of Eduardo Mondlane, a Mozambican revolutionary and anthropologist, and founder of the Mozambican Liberation Front in Maputo on November 5, 2024, to protest against human rights violations and the lack of democracy in the country due to the results of the 2024 presidential elections. (Photo by Alfredo Zuniga/AFP Photo)





Local people perform cultural dances with traditional clothing and jewelry in the Cultural Festival of the Maa community in the Samburu National Reserve in Samburu, Kenya on November 07, 2024. The tribes living in the Samburu region of northern Kenya are one of the few tribes to keep their traditions alive. One of the most important parts of the Sambura tribe's survival is their livestock, which includes cattle, sheep, goats and camels. (Photo by Gerald Anderson/Anadolu via Getty Images)