Inmates at the all-male Zonderwater Correctional Centre on the outskirts of Pretoria, South Africa, wait Thursday February 1, 2024, to register as voters or update their details on electoral rolls. The Electoral Commission of South Africa says it hopes to significantly increase the number of prisoners who take part in this year's national election. (Photo by Sebabatso Mosamo/AP Photo)





People run for cover following a series of explosions in the Embakasi area of Nairobi on February 2, 2024. At least 30 people have been transferred to different hospitals, according to the Kenya Red Cross, after explosions rocked an industrial and residential area of the Kenyan capital. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





A woman looks from a balcony at the heavily damaged houses and shops, a day after a gas explosion in the Embakasi area of Nairobi, on February 2, 2024. At least three people were killed and more than 270 injured in a massive fire when a truck laden with gas exploded in the Kenyan capital. Firefighters managed to bring the blaze under control by around 9:00 am (0600 GMT), more than nine hours after it erupted, according to an AFP journalist at the scene. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





An employee manually resets pins at the Guenet Bowling in Addis Ababa on February 2, 2024. Inaugurated in 1955 by emperor Haile Selassie himself, the six lanes Guenet Bowling alley in the Ethiopian capital is a dive into the past. Once the player shoots the ball, young men hidden behind the background wall have the task to reset the pins, point out the score and throw the bowls back, an attractive analog feature making the best out of the impossibility to repair machineries that date back to the royal opening. (Photo by Michele Spatari/AFP Photo)





Models get ready at the back stage before the start of the One Fashion Week aimed to combat discrimination, in Goma, North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo on February 3, 2024. (Photo by Arlette Bashizi/Reuters)





A boy runs past barricades as Senegalese demonstrators clash with riot police during a protest against the postponement of the presidential election, in Dakar, Senegal on February 4, 2024. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





A Senegalese demonstrator reacts as she protests the postponement of the February 25 presidential election, near Senegal's National Assembly in Dakar, Senegal on February 5, 2024. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





Men with fishing rods are pictured near ancient footprints, believed to have been left by anatomically modern humans (Homo Sapiens) and to be dating to more than 100,000 years ago, discovered along the coast in the Larache region, about 90 kilometres (55 miles) south of Tangier, in northern Morocco on February 5, 2024. Archaeologists in Morocco have unearthed more than 80 human footprints dating back around 100,000 years and believed to be the oldest in North Africa. The footprints, probably left by five homo sapiens, including children, were discovered on the coast of Larache by archaeologists from Morocco, Spain, France, and Germany. (Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP Photo)





Somali police officers stand guard at the scene after an explosion at the Bakara market in Mogadishu, Somalia on February 6, 2024. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)





Family and friends gathered to mourn Anthony Shungea Pasha who was thoroughly dismembered and killed by hyenas while he was collecting firewood at a forest neighbouring his homestead, in Kajiado, Kenya Tuesday, February 6, 2024. The wild animals from the Nairobi National Park have been distressing the community. “Everything has been killed in this homestead. Cows were killed, goats and now its people. We haven't found any part of the deceased. We have not been given any help”, Gladys Maingu, relative to Pasha, echoed. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)





Mukiza Chendeni 21, eats a meal at the Muchacha Primary School where she lives after recently fleeing her village Karuba with her family following clashes between M23 rebels and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) in Sake, the Democratic Republic of Congo on February 6, 2024. (Photo by Arlette Bashizi/Reuters)





Congolese people carry their belongings as they flee from their villages around Sake in Masisi territory, following clashes between M23 rebels and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC); towards Goma, North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo on February 7, 2024. (Photo by Arlette Bashizi/Reuters)





Thousands who are fleeing the ongoing conflict between government forces and M-23 rebels reach the entrance the Democratic Republic of Congo eastern city of Goma Wednesday, February 7, 2024. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





Children play near the beach in Dakar, Senegal on February 7, 2024. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Asante King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II greets delegates from the Fowler Museum at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi, Ghana, Thursday, February 8, 2024. Seven royal artifacts which were looted by British forces from Ghana's ancient Asante kingdom in the 19th century were returned by UCLA's Fowler Museum, the latest of a series of stolen treasured items now being repatriated to several African countries. (Photo by Misper Apawu/AP Photo)





Students of the Shaolin Temple cultural center are seen during a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration event in Lusaka, Zambia, on February 9, 2024. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Demonstrators protest President Macky Sall's decision to postpone the Feb. 25 vote, citing an electoral dispute between the parliament and the judiciary regarding some candidacies, in Dakar, Senegal, Friday, February 9, 2024. Opposition leaders and candidates rejected the decision, calling it a “coup”. (Photo by Stefan Kleinowitz/AP Photo)





Protesters shout slogans and collect barrels and tables to burn during clashes with police on the sidelines of a protest against a last-minute delay of presidential elections in Dakar on February 9, 2024. On February 8, 2024, the parliament backed the president's sudden decision to postpone the February 25 election by 10 months, sparking a fierce opposition backlash and international concern. (Photo by Guy Peterson/AFP Photo)





Layene pilgrims arrive at the start of their yearly pilgrimage at the Seydina Issa Rohou Laye Mausoleum in Camberene on February 10, 2024. Each year thousands of Layene Muslim community followers embark on a pilgrimage from the birth place of the Layene community in Camberene and finishing at the Sacred recollection Cave in Ngor. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





A police officer reacts during a protest near the UN mission in Congo MONUSCO headquarters in downtown Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo on February 12, 2024. (Photo by Justin Makangara/Reuters)