Victims of army drones attack receive treatment at a hospital in Kaduna Nigeria, Tuesday, December 5, 2023. Nigeria's emergency services agency says more than 80 people are confirmed dead after military drones “mistakenly” bombed a religious gathering in the northwest. Some 60 people were injured in the attack Sunday in Kaduna state. (Photo by Olu Ajayi/AP Photo)





In this photo supplied by IFAW, an elephant lies dead metres from a watering hole in Hwange National Park, Tuesday December 5, 2023. At least 100 elephants have died in Zimbabwe's largest national park in recent weeks because of drought, their decaying carcases a grisly sign of what wildlife authorities and conservation groups say is the impact of climate change and the El Niño weather phenomenon. (Photo by Privilege Musvanhiri/IFAW via AP Photo)





Children attend a gym class run by members of the Fekat Circus, offered for free to help the community in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on December 4, 2023. (Photo by Michele Spatari/AFP Photo)





Two men stand on top of a bus as others gather to assess damages at a street covered on mud following landslides and flooding triggered by heavy rainfall in Katesh, Tanzania on December 5, 2023. Torrential downpours in northern Tanzania washed away vehicles and brought down buildings in the hillside town of Katesh, 300 kilometres (185 miles) north of the capital Dodoma. The death toll from landslides and flooding triggered by heavy rainfall in northern Tanzania climbed to 68 on December 4, a regional official said, as rescue workers searched for trapped survivors. (Photo by EEbby Shaban/AFP Photo)





Members of the public view a section of the main Garsen-Lamu road at Gamba village which was swept away by heavy floods, in Gamba, Kenya, Thursday December 7, 2023. (Photo by Gideon Maundu/AP Photo)





Members of the South Sudan People's Defence Force of the East African Community Regional Force (EAC-RF) sit on the plane before leaving the Democratic Republic of Congo at Goma airport on December 8, 2023. The East African Community (EAC) regional force began its withdrawal from the Democratic Republic of Congo in the morning of December 3 after Kinshasa deemed it ineffective and refused to renew its mandate. The regional bloc first deployed troops in the violence-plagued region in November last year after the resurgence of the M23 rebel group. (Photo by Guerchom Ndebo/AFP Photo)





Models present creations during the main fashion show during the Africa Fashion Week, at the delight technical college in Nairobi on December 9, 2023. (Photo by Simon Maina/AFP Photo)





Models line up backstage ahead of Dakar fashion week at AzalaÔ Hotel in Dakar, Senegal, on December 9, 2023. (Photo by Carmen Abd Ali/AFP Photo)





People walk in front of election banners in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Saturday, December 9, 2023. President and second-term candidate Felix Tshisekedi has declared that people living in the eastern territories of Masisi and Rutshuru will not be taking part in the elections, a move local activists and observers say could affect the credibility of the vote. (Photo by Samy Ntumba Shambuyi/AP Photo)





Supporters of the incumbent president President Felix Tshisekedi stand in the rain prior to his arrival for a campaign rally in Goma, capital of North Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on December 10, 2023. President Felix Tshisekedi, on the campaign trail, held a rally on December 10, 2023, in Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with the city virtually surrounded by M23 rebels and fighting taking place some 20 km to the west. (Photo by Alexis Huguet/AFP Photo)





Kenyans wave from above a mural-tainted wall as they attend the 60th Jamhuri Day Celebrations (Independence Day) at Uhuru gardens Stadium in Nairobi, Monday, December 12, 2023. Thousands of Kenyans braved a chilly morning to attend festivities Tuesday in the capital Nairobi, to mark 60 years since the East African country gained independence from British Colonial rule. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)





Police officers detain a resident at Oasis Farm informal settlement in Philippi during clashes with authorities as they clamp down on illegal electricity connections in the area, in Cape Town, South Africa on December 12, 2023. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)





Abdia Sheikh Abdullahi, 70 years-old, stands by to her flooded house in Mandera County,Kenya, Wednesday, December 13, 2023. Rains began pounding the country in October. At the end of November Kenya President William Ruto convened an emergency cabinet meeting saying 38 of Kenya’s 47 counties had been affected by floods and mudslides made worse by the El Niño phenomenon. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)





Young boys play on a swing made out of scrap metal underneath a makeshift platform called Kola’s Space in the popular Ndjili neighborhood in Kinshasa on December 15, 2023. The platform was built by a scrap metal collector know as Mister Kola for children to have a place to play above the dirty and congested streets of Ndjili. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Young dancers practice by the Kenya – Uganda railway line, prior to the start of a Christmas ballet event in Kibera, the Kenyan capital's largest slum, Friday, December 15, 2023. The ballet project is run by Project Elimu, a community-driven nonprofit that offers after-school arts education and a safe space to children in Kibera. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)





Supporters of President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and leader of the Union of Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) party, Felix Tshisekedi, cheers during a campaign rally at Sainte Therese in the Ndjili district of Kinshasa on December 18, 2023. Forty-four million people are registered to vote in the presidential, parliamentary, provincial and municipal elections scheduled for December 20, 2023 in the central African nation of about 100 million people. (Photo by Arsene Mpiana/AFP Photo)





A supporter of President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and leader of the Union of Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) party, Felix Tshisekedi, and blows fire at a campaign rally at Sainte Therese in the Ndjili district of Kinshasa on December 18, 2023. Forty-four million people are registered to vote in the presidential, parliamentary, provincial and municipal elections scheduled for December 20, 2023 in the central African nation of about 100 million people. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Congolese police officers block a door after voters forced their way into a voting station in Kinshasa on December 20, 2023. Millions of Congolese head to the polls on December 20, 2023 in a high-stakes Democratic Republic of Congo general election in which President Felix Tshisekedi is seeking a new term against a fragmented opposition. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Election officials compare figures while counting votes at a polling station in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Wednesday, December 20, 2023. Lengthy delays at the polls forced officials on Wednesday to extend voting in Congo's presidential election as many residents in the mineral-rich West African nation struggled to cast ballots because of steep logistical and security challenges, raising concerns about the integrity of the process. (Pgoto by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





A fisherman casts his net in a lake on the outskirts of Muanda, western Democratic Republic of Congo, Saturday, December 23, 2023. (Photo by Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP Photo)