Arrested members of the Wazalendo sect are sat and lined up in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Wednesday, August 30, 2023. More than 40 people died and dozens were injured in clashes in the Congolese city of Goma between protesters from the Wazalendo religious sect and the armed forces, national authorities said. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





Soldiers of the Republican Guard stand on their armed pick-up in a street in Libreville, Gabon on August 30, 2023. (Photo by Scott Ngokila/Reuters)





A defaced billboard of Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba is seen on an empty street in Libreville, Gabon, Wednesday August 30, 2023. Mutinous soldiers speaking on state television announced that they had seized power in and were overturning the results of a presidential election that was to extend the Bongo family's 55-year hold on power. (Photo by Yves Laurent/AP Photo)





People standing at a bonfire look on as unseen firefighters work at the scene of a fire in a building in Johannesburg on August 31, 2023. At least 20 people have died and more than 40 were injured in a fire that engulfed a five-storey building in central Johannesburg on August 31, 2023, the South African city's emergency services said. (Photo by Michele Spatari/AFP Photo)





Women react after a deadly blaze in the early hours of the morning, in Johannesburg, South Africa on August 31, 2023. (Photo by Shiraaz Mohamed/Reuters)





People walk past a building after a deadly blaze in the early hours of the morning, in Johannesburg, South Africa on August 31, 2023. (Photo by Shiraaz Mohamed/Reuters)





South African Police Service (SAPS) K-9 Unit arrive at the entrance of a burned apartment block in Johannesburg on September 1, 2023. More than 70 people have died in a fire that engulfed a five-storey building in central Johannesburg on August 31, 2023, the South African city's emergency services said. (Photo by Luca Sola/AFP Photo)





Survivors of the fire that ripped through the five-storey building in the early hours on August 31, 2023 killing 74 people, rest amongst donated clothes in a provisional shelter in Johannesburg on September 1, 2023. (Photo by Guillem Sartorio/AFP Photo)





Supporters of Niger's National Council of Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP) trample on a French national flag during a protest outside Niger and French airbase in Niamey on September 1, 2023 to demand the departure of the French army from Niger. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A convoy of youths from surrounding villages fill jerrycans with water from a waterway near the Setit Dam in eastern Sudan before transporting them on donkeyback, on September 2, 2023. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





“Brixton Festival of Lights” held in Johannesburg, South Africa on September 02, 2023. The participants of the festival, which was held to celebrate the arrival of spring in the Brixton region, created colorful images with their costumes and with their dances. (Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Residents rummage through the remains of their shack after a fire gutted an informal settlement in Fleurof, West of Johannesburg, South Africa in the early hours of September 3, 2023. (Photo by Shiraaz Mohamed/Reuters)





Residents react as they witness members of the Forensics Pathology Services remove the bodies of two minors killed after a fire in an informal settlement in Fleurof, west of Johannesburg, South Africa, in the early hours of September 3, 2023. (Photo by Shiraaz Mohamed/Reuters)





A bomb disposal expert dressed in his protective suit lays a cable as he prepares a controlled detonation of an explosive device outside a Pentecostal church, Lubaga Miracle Centre, in the Lubaga suburb of south Kampala, Uganda on September 3, 2023. (Photo by Abubaker Lubowa/Reuters)





Activist Vanessa Nakate of Uganda takes part in climate protest, in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, September 4, 2023 as the Africa Climate Summit begins. The first African Climate Summit is opening with heads of state and others asserting a stronger voice on a global issue that affects the continent of 1.3 billion people the most, even though they contribute to it the least. Kenya's government and the African Union are launching the ministerial session while more than a dozen heads of state begin to arrive, determined to wield more global influence and bring in far more financing and support. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)





Climate activists hold placards and chant slogans as they take part in a march in Nairobi on September 4, 2023. The activists from various nationalities urged delegates attending the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi to engage actively in discussions to expedite the phase-out of fossil fuels. (Photo by Suleiman Mbatiah/AFP Photo)





Gabon's new strongman General Brice Oligui Nguema (2nd L), who was inaugurated as Gabon's interim President, reviews the troops before the military parade, in Libreville on September 4, 2023. Gabon's coup leader vowed after being sworn in as interim president on September 4, 2023 to restore civilian rule through “free, transparent and credible elections” after a transition and amnesty prisoners of conscience. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A man sells phone accessories on the streets of Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday September 5, 2023. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





A woman sells smoked fish on the streets of Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday, September 5, 2023. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





A man wheels a barrow with lemons on the streets of Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday, September 5, 2023. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)