People wait to vote at a polling station during Tigray’s regional elections, in the city of Mekele, Ethiopia, on September 9, 2020. Ethiopia's northern Tigray region vote on September 9, 2020 in parliamentary elections that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government has deemed illegal Polls opened at 6am (0300 GMT) across the mountainous northern Tigray region despite a federal decision to postpone all elections because of the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Eduardo Soteras/AFP Photo)





Residents cast their votes in a local election in the regional capital Mekelle, in the Tigray region of Ethiopia Wednesday, September 9, 2020. People began voting in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region on Wednesday in a local election defying the federal government and increasing political tensions in Africa's second most populous country. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Members of the Tigray Circus rehearse in the city of Mekele, Ethiopia, on September 8, 2020. Leaders of the circus in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, which provides training to disadvantage young people, hope it will undergo a revival after years of under investment. (Photo by Eduardo Soteras/AFP Photo)





A resident shows his shovel that he uses to row through flooded streets after last week's heavy rains in Keur Massar, Senegal on September 8, 2020. The town on the outskirts of Senegal's capital Dakar remains underwater after a massive downpour, with residents saying some cannot access their homes and that dangerous animals are lurking in the waters. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





A man speaks as he wades through a flooded street after last week's heavy rains in Keur Massar, Senegal on September 8, 2020. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





Residents walk through a flooded street after last week's heavy rains in Keur Massar, Senegal on September 8, 2020. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





Robyn Porteous, a vaccine trials' volunteer, is injected with a vaccine as part of the country's human clinical trial for potential vaccines after being tested for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Wits RHI Shandukani Research Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, August 27, 2020. (Photo by Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)





Chickens are seen in a classroom converted into a poultry house because of COVID-19 in the town of Wang'uru, Kenya, August 28, 2020. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)





Small scale miners on a river bed on the outskirts of Harare, Wednesday, September 9, 2020. Zimbabwe’s government says it has banned mining in its national parks, but an environmental group that had taken court action to stop the development of a coal mine in an elephant-rich park said on Wednesday that it will insist on “more than just words”. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





Algerians lift portraits of journalist Khaled Drareni during a rally to protest his incarceration in the capital Algiers, on September 7, 2020. Drareni, 40, editor of the Casbah Tribune news site and correspondent for French-language channel TV5 Monde, was sentenced in August to three years in jail for “inciting an unarmed gathering” and “endangering national unity” after covering demonstrations by the Hirak protest movement. (Photo by Ryad Kramdi/AFP Photo)





Ticketing officials attends to passengers inside the departure terminal of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, in Abuja, Nigeria on September 7, 2020. After a five-month closure of the Nigerian airspace due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, flight resumptions began in Abuja, Nigeria. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon/AFP Photo)





Motorcycle taximen wearing reflective rain jackets wait for passengers along a road during rainfall in Lagos, Nigeria, 09 September 2020. Rainfall prediction for Lagos for the rest of year is expected at an extreme volume, higher than the previous year, with a possible risk of flooding in the coastal areas and to the city's drainage infrastructure, according to a local media report. (Photo by Akintunde Akinleye/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Moroccan special forces stand guard at the entrance of a building during a counter-terrorism operation in Temara, on the outskirts of Rabat, Morocco on September 10, 2020. (Photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters)





Commercial transport buses painted in yellow queue to take turn in collecting passengers at a motor park in Lagos, Nigeria, 10 September 2020. The price of petrol in Nigeria has been increased within the last three months from slightly above 121 naira($0.32) per liter in June to about 160 naira ($0.41) in September, with rising costs of transportation for commuters. Rights activists have been calling on the government for the reversal of the petrol pump price to no avail. (Photo by Akintunde Akinleye/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Representatives of people with disabilities parade during the inauguration ceremony of Sheger park, the biggest public amusement park in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the eve of Ethiopian calendar’s new year, on September 10, 2020. (Photo by Amanuel Sileshi/AFP Photo)





A supporter with body paint in French reading “PDCI, 2020, This is our year” attends a party rally to celebrate the presidential candidacy of Henri Konan Bedie for the opposition PDCI-RDA party and as a show of strength ahead of next months presidential election, in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast Saturday, September 12, 2020. Bedie, who led the country from 1993-1999, and Pascal Affi N'Guessan of the Ivorian Popular Front party, are the two opposition leaders who pose the strongest threat to incumbent President Alassane Ouattara. (Photo by Diomande Ble Blonde/AP Photo)





Traders carry baskets of vegetables through muddy pathways in Atkilt Tera, the largest open-air vegetable market, in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Thursday, September 10, 2020. Ethiopians are stocking up on food on new year's eve of the Ethiopian calendar ahead of the holiday of “Enkutatash”, the first day of the new year that is traditionally associated with the return of the Queen of Sheba to Ethiopia some 3,000 years ago. (Photo by Mulugeta Ayene/AP Photo)





Ethiopian Orthodox faithful attend a prayer ceremony to mark the holiday of “Enkutatash”, the first day of the new year in the Ethiopian calendar, which is traditionally associated with the return of the Queen of Sheba to Ethiopia some 3,000 years ago, at Bole Medhane Alem Ethiopian Orthodox Cathedral in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Friday, September 11, 2020. (Photo by Mulugeta Ayene/AP Photo)





Traders carry baskets of vegetables through muddy pathways in Atkilt Tera, the largest open-air vegetable market, in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Thursday, September 10, 2020. (Photo by Mulugeta Ayene/AP Photo)





A girl wears a face mask to curb the spread of the coronavirus as she attends a prayer ceremony to mark the holiday of “Enkutatash”, the first day of the new year in the Ethiopian calendar, which is traditionally associated with the return of the Queen of Sheba to Ethiopia some 3,000 years ago, at Bole Medhane Alem Ethiopian Orthodox Cathedral in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Friday, September 11, 2020. (Photo by Mulugeta Ayene/AP Photo)