Moroccans celebrate the decision of the UN Security Council, which expressed its support for Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara – a territory that has been disputed for half a century between Rabat and the independence-seeking Polisario Front, backed by Algeria, in the city of Rabat on Rabat, late on October 31, 2025. The UN Security Council voted on October 31, in favor of a resolution backing Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara as the “most feasible” solution for the disputed territory, triggering celebrations in Rabat but angering Algeria. (Photo by Abdel Majid Bziouat/AFP Photo)





A model wearing a creation by Nigerian designer Bubu Ogisi at Iamisigo brand poses for a photograph ahead of a private presentation and performance to view the SS26 collection during Lagos Fashion Week in Lagos, on October 31, 2025. (Photo by Olympia de Maismont/AFP Photo)





A woman carries a heavy load on her head while walking along the narrow Kilo ZeroKilo 30 road near Bentiu in Unity State, South Sudan, on November 6, 2025. The eroded and flood-affected road compels residents to travel long distances on foot to access supplies in Bentiu and Rubkona. (Photo by Rian Cope/AFP Photo)





A supporter of Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko dances during a rally in Dakar, on November 8, 2025. (Photo by Patrick Meinhardt/AFP Photo)





A man evacuates his belongings within a flooded residential area as people continue to vacate from their flooded homes affected by floods and raising backflow waters from Lake Naivasha which has been worsened by prolonged rainfall in Kihoto Esatate, in the Lakeview award, in Naivasha, about 90km northwest of Nairobi, in the rift valley, Kenya, on 11 November 2025. Thousands of residents of Kihoto Etate, in Naivasha, Nakuru County, have been affected by floods caused by the rising waters of Lake Naivasha. Water levels has been rising to unprecedented levels that has been expanding the lake since 2020, among other lakes in the Rift Valley that have been steadily rising. (Photo by Daniel Irungu/EPA)





Soumaina Adam Sein, 26, queues in the registration area at Oure Cassoni camp in Chad on November 13, 2025. With the last army stronghold in Sudan's western Darfur region having fallen to paramilitary forces on October 26, the United Nations expects a mass influx of refugees, but it is unclear how many will actually make it to neighbouring Chad. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), fighting a brutal war with Sudan's army for more than two years, claimed full control of El-Fasher, having besieged the capital of North Darfur state for nearly 18 months, causing countless thousands of people to flee. (Photo by Joris Bolomey/AFP Photo)





A young chess player gestures as he takes part in the Kibera Chess Tournament in Kibera, Nairobi, on November 15, 2025. The tournament brought together 195 children from different informal settlements, with the aim to nurture young minds, strengthen critical thinking, and inspire the next generation. (Photo by Simon Maina/AFP Photo)





Models wait to walk the catwalk backstage during The Gambia International Fashion Week at Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Centre in Banjul on November 15, 2025. (Photo by Muhamadou Bittaye/AFP Photo)





Sudanese women displaced from El-Fasher cook meals at a community kitchen inside the newly established El-Afadh camp in Al Dabbah, in Sudan's Northern State, Sunday, November 16, 2025. (Photo by Marwan Ali/AP Photo)





Children gather at the fenced window of a safe-space classroom managed by War Child Holland at the Renk Transit Center in Renk, South Sudan, on November 17, 2025. South Sudan's Renk Transit Center, built for 3,000, now shelters over 12,000 refugees, returnees, and deportees fleeing the Sudan war that has displaced more than 1?million people since 2023, with thousands living in makeshift tents and straining limited food, water, and medical resources. (Photo by Rian Cope/AFP Photo)





Residents use push poles to manuever their makeshift rafts over a flooded access road to their residential blocks at Kohoto estate in Naivasha on November 17, 2025. Heavy rains in Kenya have caused the waters of Lake Naivasha, a hundred kilometres northwest of capital Nairobi, to flood nearby homes, displacing families. (Photo by Tony Karumba/AFP Photo)





Spokesperson of the of the Rastafari Society of Kenya (RSK) Ras Wambua (4th L) chants prayers outside the court room before attending a court session during the ruling of their petition to the government of Kenya to decriminalise cannabis for sacred and medicinal use, at the Milimani courts in Nairobi on November 18, 2025. Once widely discriminated against, followers now say that more Kenyans are embracing Rastafari as both a spiritual and cultural identity. (Photo by Simon Maina/AFP Photo)





A member of the South African Police force looks on during the integrated law enforcement parade, which forms part of the readiness operations for the upcoming G20 Summit, in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 19, 2025. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)





A displaced boy from al-Fashir is helped down from a truck, at a displacement camp in Al-Dabba, Sudan, on November 19, 2025. (Photo by El Tayeb Siddig/Reuters)





Firefighters manage to bring the blaze under control, while residents attempted to salvage their belongings in the after a fire that broke out in the early morning hours in the Mukuru Fuata Nyayo area of Nairobi destroyed numerous homes in Kenya on November 20, 2025. (Photo by Gerald Anderson/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Protesters hold placards as they lie on the ground during the Women's Nationwide Shutdown at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg on November 21, 2025, ahead of the G20 leaders' Summit. Women for Change calls on the community across South Africa to refrain from all paid and unpaid work in workplaces, universities, and homes, and to spend no money for the entire day to demonstrate the economic and social impact of their absence, and demand that gender-based violence and femicide be declared a national disaster. (Photo by Gianluigi Guercia/AFP Photo)





Protesters lie on the ground during the Women's Nationwide Shutdown at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg on November 21, 2025, ahead of the G20 leaders' Summit. Women for Change calls on the community across South Africa to refrain from all paid and unpaid work in workplaces, universities, and homes, and to spend no money for the entire day to demonstrate the economic and social impact of their absence, and demand that gender-based violence and femicide be declared a national disaster. (Photo by Gianluigi Guercia/AFP Photo)





France's President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Gabon's President Brice Oligui Nguema, are seen as their motorcade drives past, in Libreville, Gabon, Monday, November 24, 2025. (Photo by Thibault Camus/AP Photo)