A member of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) dances during a flag-handover ceremony, ahead of a future deployment to eastern Congo as part of the newly-created East African Community Regional Force (EACRF), at the Embakasi garrison in Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, November 2, 2022. Kenya is sending more than 900 military personnel to eastern Congo to join a new regional force trying to calm deadly tensions fueled by armed groups that have led to a diplomatic crisis between Congo and neighboring Rwanda. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)





Passengers wait with their luggage outside the terminal at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday, November 5, 2022. Pilots working for Kenya's national airline Kenya Airways have been on strike for three days over a demand to honor a retirement savings plan, and it is estimated to be costing millions of dollars in losses daily. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Democratic Republic of the Congo youth get the first steps of basic military training in Goma, eastern Congo, Monday, November 7, 2022. More than 3,000 new Congolese military recruits began training Monday as the army steps up its fight against the M23 rebels in the country's east that the government alleges are backed by neighboring Rwanda. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





Democratic Republic of the Congo youth get the first steps of basic military training in Goma, eastern Congo, Monday, November 7, 2022. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





Democratic Republic of the Congo youth get the first steps of basic military training in Goma, eastern Congo, Monday November 7, 2022. While the M23 rebels continue to gain ground, more than three thousand young volunteers have just enlisted to fight the rebels and try to stop their advance. This mobilization of young people comes after the Congolese head of state called for a general mobilizationNovember 7, 2022. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





Democratic Republic of the Congo youth get the first steps of basic military training in Goma, eastern Congo, Monday, November 7, 2022. More than 3,000 new Congolese military recruits began training Monday as the army steps up its fight against the M23 rebels in the country's east that the government alleges are backed by neighboring RwandaNovember 7, 2022. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





Internally displaced people (IDP) sit outside a makeshift shelter at the Faladie IDP camp in Bamako on November 9, 2022. People fleeing a decade-long conflict in Mali take refuge at the Faladie IDP camp. (Photo by Ousmane Makaveli/AFP Photo)





Members of the South African Municipal Workers' Union (SAMWU) gather during a strike over wage increases in Beyers Naude Square, Johannesburg, on November 10, 2022. (Photo by Luca Sola/AFP Photo)





10 month old Jal is measured and weighted to gauge the severity of malnutrition at Danwagaag Mother and Child Health Centre in Baidoa, Somalia on November 9, 2022. After four consecutive failed rainy seasons, Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia are in the midst of the worst period of drought for 40 years and with another poor rainy season is now likely to follow. Extreme drought has destroyed crops and led to the death of livestock. Combined with a high security threat from Al Shabaab that makes it hard to deliver aid, some 7 million Somalis nearly half the population at risk of famine in Somalia. (Photo by Guy Peterson/AFP Photo)





Girls dressed in local school uniform walk next to rubble along a street in Baidoa, Somalia, on November 9, 2022. After four consecutive failed rainy seasons, Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia are in the midst of the worst period of drought for 40 years and with another poor rainy season is now likely to follow. Extreme drought has destroyed crops and led to the death of livestock. Combined with a high security threat from Al Shabaab that makes it hard to deliver aid, some 7 million Somalis, nearly half the population at risk of famine in Somalia. (Photo by Guy Peterson/AFP Photo)





Kids look at environmental activist Modou Fall, who many simply call “Plastic Man”, while he walks on the Yarakh Beach littered by trash and plastics in Dakar, Senegal, Tuesday, November 8, 2022. As he walks, plastics dangle from his arms and legs, rustling in the wind while strands drag on the ground. On his chest, poking out from the plastics, is a sign in French that says, “No to plastic bags”. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)





Senegalese peacekeepers with the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) and Congolese police officers patrol the city of Goma, on November 9, 2022. Since October 20, fighting has resumed between the Congolese army and the M23 (March 23 Movement), allegedly backed by the Rwandan army. In the past two weeks, the M23 has doubled the size of the territory under its control, approaching 30 kilometers from Goma, the provincial capital of more than one million people that sits on the border with Rwanda. (Photo by Alexis Huguet/AFP Photo)





Maasai children stand beside a zebra that local residents said died due to drought, as they graze their cattle at Ilangeruani village, near Lake Magadi, in Kenya, on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. Parts of Kenya have experienced four consecutive seasons with inadequate rain in the past two years, with dire effects for people and animals, including livestock. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)





A women sits in the waters break at Lido beach early in the morning in Mogadishu, Somalia on November 11, 2022. (Photo by Guy Peterson/AFP Photo)





Rabat players celebrate their 2-0 lead during the CAF Women's Champions League final between FAR Rabat and Mamelodi Sundowns in Rabat, Morocco, 13 November 2022. (Photo by Jalal Morchidi/EPA/EFE)





Models display a creation by Adama Paris during the GTCO Fashion Weekend in Lagos, Nigeria, Saturday, November 12, 2022. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





Workers try to salvage luggages from the fire at the Yanuo factory and warehouse in Asese, Ogun State, southwest Nigeria, on November 14, 2022. The factory and warehouse of Yanuo industries in Nigeria, importer and one of the biggest Chinese manufacturing industries that produce travelling bags, different shapes and sizes of suit cases, textiles, shoes, and well-equipped with machinery for working with rubber, plastics, or manufacturing products from these material has been razed by fire. (Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP Photo)





Hundreds of volunteers stand at Goma International Airport receiving instructions before boarding a plane that will take them to a training center after responding to Democratic Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi's call to join the army to go to the front lines to fight against the M23 rebellion (March 23 Movement) in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on November 14, 2022. (Photo by Guerchom Ndebo/AFP Photo)





Hundreds of volunteers sit on a plane bound for a training center after answering Democratic Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi's call to join the army to go to the front lines to fight against the M23 rebellion (March 23 Movement) in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on November 14, 2022. (Photo by Guerchom Ndebo/AFP Photo)





People fleeing the fighting between government forces and M-23 rebels make their way towards Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tuesday November 15, 2022. Violence by armed groups in eastern Congo has led to a diplomatic crisis between Congo and Rwanda, with the two neighboring countries accusing each other of backing hostile armed groups. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)