Voters queue to cast their ballots in the presidential elections outside a voting center in Kampala, Uganda, January 14, 2021. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)





A traditional dancer from Ghana performs for President of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo's official inauguration ceremony in Accra, Ghana, 07 January 2021. Nana Akufo-Addo was sworn in for a second term at the Parliament House in Accra. (Photo by Christian Thompson/EPA/EFE)





Believers attend their Christmas prayer at St. Peter's Church, which was demolished four months ago over ownership of the land and now is on trial, in Kampala, Uganda, on December 25, 2020. (Photo by Badru Katumba/AFP Photo)





Worshippers of Legio Maria wearing face masks as a preventive measure against the spread of COVID-19 attend the Christmas prayer at their church in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, on December 25, 2020. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)





People are seen through a window as they attend the traditional wedding ceremony of Emir's 7 children in Abuja, Nigeria, December 26, 2020. (Photo by Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)





Members of the public walk across the newly commissioned Liwatoni Floating Foot Bridge in Mombasa, Kenya, Friday, January 1, 2021, which has been constructed by the Kenya National Highway Authority through the China City Construction Company. The floating foot bridge will decongest the crossing of the Likoni ferry Channel as only vehicles will be using the ferries and members of the public will be using this floating footbridge in both directions between the mainland and the Island. (Photo by Gideon Mandu/AP Photo)





Pupils wash their hands at water points to control spread of coronavirus on the first day of official school opening at Precious Talent Top School, Kenya's capital Nairobi on Monday, January 4, 2021, as schools re-opened after a nine month break due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All primary and secondary schools in the country were reopened in congested classes despite efforts by the national government to have fulfilled their promises of having new desks and new classes to avoid the social distance calamity which could cause the spread of the pandemic in schools. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A worker checks the temperature of schoolchildren before entering the Olympic Primary School during the reopening of schools, after the government closed learning institutions due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya January 4, 2021. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





Billboards of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni who is running for his 6th presidential term are seen on a street in Kampala, Uganda, on January 4, 2021. Uganda gears up for presidential elections which is scheduled to take place on January 14, 2021, as President Yoweri Museveni seeks another term to continue his 35-year rule. (Photo by Sumy Sadurni/AFP Photo)





Children gather around a wooden boat conveying two bodies, in Mukwija in Eastern Congo, Wednesday January 6, 2021. Authorities in eastern Congo fear more than 40 people are dead after a motorized wooden boat capsized on Lake Kivu overnight, officials said Wednesday. (Photo by Justin Kabumba/AP Photo)





Patients are seen lying on hospital beds inside a temporary ward dedicated to the treatment of possible COVID-19 coronavirus patients at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria on January 11, 2021. (Photo by Phill Magakoe/AFP Photo)





Security forces gather in Kampala, Uganda, Thursday, January 14, 2021. Ugandans are voting in a presidential election tainted by widespread violence that some fear could escalate as security forces try to stop supporters of leading opposition challenger BobiWine from monitoring polling stations. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A worker at a coffin making company waits for clients inside the company premises in Harare, Tuesday, January 5, 2021, as Zimbabwe has began a 30-day lockdown in a bid to rein in the spike in COVID -19 infections threatening to overwhelm health services. In response to to rising infections the country has reintroduced a night curfew, banned public gatherings, and indefinitely suspended the opening of schools. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





A soldier walks through a market outside of Yei town in Central Equatoria state, Wednesday, December 23, 2020. Ten years after South Sudan gained its independence and two years after its own deadly civil war ended, large-scale fighting has subsided but clashes continue between communities and between the government and groups that did not sign the peace deal — and the use of rape as a weapon remains rampant. (Photo by Sam Mednick/AP Photo)





Supporters of Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni celebrate, in Kampala, Uganda, Saturday January 16, 2021, after their candidate was declared winner of the presidential elections. Uganda’s electoral commission says longtime President Yoweri Museveni has won a sixth term, while top opposition challenger Bobi Wine alleges rigging and officials struggle to explain how polling results were compiled amid an internet blackout. In a generational clash widely watched across the African continent, the young singer-turned-lawmaker Wine posed arguably the greatest challenge yet to Museveni. (Photo by Nicholas Bamulanzeki/AP Photo)





Thousands of people attend a music concert to celebrate the new year in Mbare, Harare, Friday, January 1, 2021. Despite a government ban on music concerts and public gatherings due to a surge in COVID-19 infections and the new and more contagious variants of the disease, thousands of people gathered in one of the country's poorest neighborhoods to celebrate the new year. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





People line up to cast their votes for presidential and legislative elections outside the Lycee Boganda polling station in the capital Bangui, Central African Republic, Sunday, December 27, 2020. President Faustin-Archange Touadera and his party said the vote will go ahead after government forces clashed with rebels in recent days and some opposition candidates pulled out of the race amid growing insecurity. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A woman wearing a mask to help protect themself from the coronavirus crosses a waterlogged street after rainfall in Thokoza, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, January 14, 2021. South Africa is struggling to cope with a spike in COVID-19 cases that has already overwhelmed some hospitals, as people returning from widespread holiday travel speed the country's more infectious coronavirus variant. (Photo by Themba Hadebe/AP Photo)





People watch the television during the only two hours of electricity per day in the Sudanese village of Um Rakuba, home to over 20,000 people, on January 7, 2021, in Um Rakuba, Sudan. Some 56,000 people have been displaced from Ethiopia to Sudan after nearly two months of the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia between Federal Government troops and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). (Photo by Abdulmonam Eassa/Getty Images)





Mother of five Nyaduoth Kon, carries food in a bucket on her head as she wades through floodwaters in the village of Wang Chot, Old Fangak county, Jonglei state, South Sudan Thursday, November 26, 2020. Some 1 million people in the country have been displaced or isolated for months by the worst flooding in memory, with the intense rainy season a sign of climate change. (Photo by Maura Ajak/AP Photo)