Ousmane Sambou, a sergeant with Senegal's Direction of National Parks, holds up a confiscated leopard skin at the DPN headquarters in Tambacounda, Senegal on Monday, January 13, 2025. (Photo by Annika Hammerschlag/AP Photo)





Locals transport charcoal to the market days after most businesses closed down due to conflicts on the outskirts of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 04 February 2025. Over 900 people were killed and around 2,800 injured in the last two weeks in the eastern city of Goma of the DRC amid fighting between the M23 (March 23 Movement) rebel group and the government forces, the World Health Organization said on 03 February. The M23 (March 23 Movement) took control of Goma city, the capital of the North Kivu Province, days after claiming to have captured most of it after launching a large-scale offensive in the east of the DR Congo, which the DR Congo and the UN accuse Rwanda of backing. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Stringer)





Members of the Congolese Red Cross and volunteers offload victims of the recent conflict before burying them in a cemetery in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 04 February 2025. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Stringer)





Children queue to fetch water at a water point, as schools remain closed down due to conflicts on the outskirts of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 04 February 2025. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Stringer)





A child standing on a grave watches as members of the Congolese Red Cross and volunteers carry victims of the recent conflict in a cemetery in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 04 February 2025. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Stringer)





A Somali internally-displaced person (IDP) child looks out from her family's makeshift home in Maslah camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, February 5, 2025. (Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo)





Displaced people who fled the fighting in Kibati and Kihisi and have taken refuge stand inside EP Djiwe Primary School in Goma on February 10, 2025. The displaced now find themselves in a difficult situation due to the reopening of schools. Although some schools remain empty due to fear, the displaced people are uncertain about their future. They do not know where to go, as the classrooms they have been using as shelters are set to be occupied by learners again. (Photo by Jospin Mwisha/AFP Photo)





Residents carry jerrycans on their way to collect water from a water point installed by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Mugunga, Goma, on February 11, 2025. Clashes between the M23 armed group allied with Rwandan troops and the Congolese army are underway Tuesday in eastern DRC, three days after a call by African leaders for a ceasefire was followed by a relative lull. Fighters from the anti-government armed group M23 (“March 23 Movement”) and Rwandan soldiers attacked Congolese army (FARDC) positions near Ihusi at dawn, according to security and local sources. (Photo by Michel Lunanga/AFP Photo)





A woman holds a child as people dismantle tents to salvage materials in a refugee camp in Bulengo, Democratic Republic of Congo, 11 February 2025. Displaced persons living in the Bulengo refugee camps were given until 11 February by the M23 armed group to vacate the camp and go back to their villages and towns. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, announced that more than 110,000 displaced people in Goma, the capital of North Kivu which has fallen under the M23 armed group control, had taken to the road again to try to find refuge elsewhere in the region. (Photo by Nadaa Kahashy/EPA/EFE)





Florists display bouquets for sale to mark Valentine's Day celebrations in Nairobi, Kenya, on February 14, 2025. (Photo by Monicah Mwangi/Reuters)





People walk past bouquets displayed for sale to mark Valentine's Day celebrations in Nairobi, Kenya, on February 14, 2025. (Photo by Monicah Mwangi/Reuters)





People buy roses from a florist to mark Valentine's Day celebrations in Nairobi, Kenya, on February 14, 2025. (Photo by Monicah Mwangi/Reuters)





Men sit in their pirogue as they prepare for the annual boat regatta in Yauri, Kebbi State, Nigeria on February 15, 2025. The regatta festival started about 200 years ago as a display of naval strength of the Gungu people, where the Gungu warriors annually attacked dangerous hippopotamus that were destroying farmlands. Warriors would board various sizes of canoes with different types of weapons to attack the animal on the River Niger. This required expertise in canoe paddling and naval warfare. It also served as training exercise for upcoming Gungu warriors. (Photo by Toyin Adedokun/AFP Photo)





Participants use round gourds to navigate during the annual boat regatta in Yauri, Kebbi State, on February 15, 2025. (Photo by Toyin Adedokun/AFP Photo)





A man crosses from a pirogue to another pirogue during the annual boat regatta in Yauri, Kebbi State, on February 15, 2025. The regatta festival started about 200 years ago as a display of naval strength of the Gungu people, where the Gungu warriors annually attacked dangerous hippopotamus that were destroying farmlands. Warriors would board various sizes of canoes with different types of weapons to attack the animal on the River Niger. This required expertise in canoe paddling and naval warfare. It also served as training exercise for upcoming Gungu warriors. (Photo by Toyin Adedokun/AFP Photo)





M23 rebels enter the centre of east Congo's second-largest city, Bukavu, and take control of the South Kivu province administrative office, Sunday, February 16, 2025. (Photo by Janvier Barhahiga/AP Photo)





Ugandan police officers detain activists protesting the continued imprisonment of four-time presidential aspirant Kizza Besigye and other political prisoners, who were being tried by the military court, which was abolished by the Supreme Court, in Kampala, Uganda, on February 17, 2025. (Photo by Abubaker Lubowa/Reuters)





Congolese refugees, displaced by ongoing clashes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, gather to receive soft drinks from a social worker after their registration at the Gihanga refugee transit camp in Gihanga on February 17, 2025. Columns of M23 fighters allied with Rwandan troops on February 16, 2025 entered the centre of another key city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as the African Union highlighted growing fears that the strife-torn country could break up, as scores of people have fled since the fighters reached outlying districts of Bukavu, capital of South Kivu province, on February 14, 2025. (Photo by Tchandrou Nitanga/AFP Photo)





Ugandan opposition leader and four-time presidential candidate Kizza Besigye appears in a civilian court in Kampala, Uganda Wednesday, February 19, 2025. (Photo by Hajarah Nalwadda/AP Photo)





A woman sells cooked cabbage leaves on a road side market in Sokoto Northwest Nigeria, Friday, February 21, 2025. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)