Women cross a street filled with smoke during clashes between demonstrators and police in Dakar, Senegal, Saturday, June 3, 2023. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)





People carry buckets of mud used to re-plaster the Great Mosque of Djenne in central Mali on June 4, 2023. (Photo by Ousmane Makaveli/AFP Photo)





People look on at the Great Mosque of Djenne in central Mali on June 4, 2023. Thousand of people from Djenne gather each year to re-plaster the walls of the Great Mosque of Djenne, which has been build from mud since 1907. (Photo by Ousmane Makaveli/AFP Photo)





Children help during the re-plastering of the Great Mosque of Djenne in central Mali on June 3, 2023. (Photo by Ousmane Makaveli/AFP Phoot)





A scavenger carries a bag of sorted recyclable plastic waste materials, as dump trucks are stuck in the murky water, at the Dandora dumping site, on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya on June 5, 2023. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





Kenyan plain clothed police officers detain an activist during a protest over tax hike plans in Nairobi on June 6, 2023. Kenyan police fired tear gas and arrested 11 protesters during a march in Nairobi on Tuesday against a new finance bill that critics say will pile more economic hardship on ordinary people. (Photo by Simon Maina/AFP Photo)





An activists reacts, after riot police officers lobbed teargas canisters to disperse them, during a march to call on lawmakers to reject the finance bill proposed by the government that would raise taxes across the economy, along Harambee avenue in downtown Nairobi, Kenya on June 6, 2023. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





Burnt-out buses which belong to a partly state-funded “Dem Dikk” company, that provides intercity, national and regional bus services, are seen following violent protests after Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was sentenced to prison, in Keur Massar neighborhood, Dakar, Senegal on June 7, 2023. (Photo by Ngouda Dione/Reuters)





A survivor poses for a photograph where his house was swept away by a landslide in early May in the village of Bushushu on the shores of Lake Kivu in Kalehe Territory, South Kivu Province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on June 9, 2023. On May 4, 2023, landslides buried part of the villages of Bushushu and Nyamukubi. One month after the disaster, nearly 450 people were buried and more than 2,500 still remain unaccounted for. (Photo by Alexis Huguet/AFP Photo)





Archival and documentation students sift through burned documents at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar on June 09, 2023 in an effort to salvage them. Tens of thousands of student archives dating back to 1957 where burned during protest that broke out on June 01, 2023 after opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was sentenced to two years in prison. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Maasai morans (warriors) perform traditional jumping as Kenya's Maasai community held an inaugural Maasai Cultural Festival, on the outskirts of Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya's Rift Valley on Saturday, June 10, 2023. (Photo by AP Photo)





Members of the indigenous Maasai community in their traditional attire, prepare to perform at the inaugural Maasai Cultural Festival at the Sekenani village, at the world-famous Maasai Mara National Reserve, in Narok, Kenya, 10 June 2023. The festival, featured of presentation of Maasai cultural music, traditional food, artefacts, traditional sports like spear throwing, jumping competition and folktales, aims to promote tourism, cultural exchange and peace. (Photo by Daniel Irungu/EPA)





A group of Maasai men perform their traditional jumping dance during a Maasai cultural festival in Sekenani, on June 10, 2023. The Maasai people are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting Kenya and northern Tanzania. The Maasai cultural festival is a popular gathering and celebration of the Maasai cultural heritage and aims to showcase the community's traditional activities and fashion. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





A group of Maasai women march while dancing traditional songs during a Maasai cultural festival in Sekenani, on June 10, 2023. The Maasai people are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting Kenya and northern Tanzania. The Maasai cultural festival is a popular gathering and celebration of the Maasai cultural heritage and aims to showcase the community's traditional activities and fashion. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





Penda Fall (13) is seen during 'International Albinism Awareness Day' in Dakar Senegal on June 13, 2023. All over the world, albino individuals who are discriminated against because of their different appearance face the same situation in Senegal. Penda told AA reporter that she wants to become a pediatrician one day so that she can help other children suffering from albinism and other diseases. (Photo by Annika Hammerschlag/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Penda Fall (13) helps her family with chores during “International Albinism Awareness Day” in Dakar Senegal on June 13, 2023. (Photo by Annika Hammerschlag/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Seynabou Diop, center, stands with her relatives in their home after talking about her son, Khadim Ba, 21, who died during the protests earlier this month in Dakar, Senegal, Thursday, June 15, 2023. “If I had known (he was going to protest), Khadim would never have taken part”, said Diop. “I want (the government) to meet the expectations of young people, the government has an obligation to help (them)”, she said. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)





A young boy enjoys the morning fun on one of the three public trampolines in the Alexandra township in Johannesburg, South Africa on June 16, 2023. The children jump after school each day as one of the rare extra activities in one of Johannesburg oldest and most impoverished townships. Life in the township has been even harsher lately with crime rates increasing, unemployment on the rise and load shedding effecting the small businesses that are part of the macro economic environment. South Africa is marking Youth Day today as the country takes a public holiday. (Photo by Kim Ludbrook/EPA/EFE)





A boy is conforted at the scene of an attack in Mpondwe, Uganda, on June 17, 2023 at the Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School. The death toll from an attack on a school in western Uganda by militants linked to the Islamic State group has risen to 37, the country's army spokesman said Saturday. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





In this image made from video, people make their way towards the Lhubiriha Secondary School following an attack on the school near the border with Congo, in Mpondwe, Uganda, Saturday, June 17, 2023. Ugandan authorities recovered the bodies of dozens of people including students who were burned, shot or hacked to death after suspected rebels attacked the school, the local mayor said Saturday. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)