A Muslim family walks after performing Friday prayers outside the mosque of Hassan II, one of the largest in Africa, in Casablanca, Morocco, Friday, February 7, 2020. (Photo by Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP Photo)





Medical staff assist a parent after she identified the body of her child killed in a stampede at the Kakamega Primary School, at the Kakamega County General Teaching & Referral Hospital in Kakamega, Kenya on February 4, 2020. (Photo by James Keyi/Reuters)





A teen gets a complementary shave at the Valentine's Day pageant dubbed “Valentine's Day Street Family Bash” as an empowerment and way to make people feel loved at the Jeevanjee Gardens in Nairobi, Kenya on February 14, 2020. (Photo by Njeri Mwangi/Reuters)





Voodoo devotees dressed in costume parade on the main boulevard of Porto-novo, in Benin on January 11, 2020. The 4th edition of the Porto Novo International Festival (FIP) takes place from January 4 to 12, 2020 in Porto-Novo. 1,200 cultural and ritual masks from several African countries paraded for a grand parade during the 4th edition of the International Festival of Culture, Arts and Vodun Civilization scheduled to date in Porto-Novo. (Photo by Yanick Folly/AFP Photo)





Voodoo devotees follow the parade on a motorcycle on the main boulevard of Porto-novo, in Benin on January 11, 2020. (Photo by Yanick Folly/AFP Photo)





In this Wednesday, December 11, 2019 photo, Sudanese al-Difaa, in pink, and al-Sumood women teams play in Omdurman, Khartoum's twin city, Sudan. The women's soccer league has become a field of contention as Sudan grapples with the transition from three decades of authoritarian rule that espoused a strict interpretation of Islamic Shariah law. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Security forces and others walk past the wreckage of vehicles after a vehicle bomb attack on a security checkpoint located near the presidential palace, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, January 8, 2020. (Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo)





In this photo taken Wednesday, December 11, 2019, residents of the Malawi village of Tomali wait to have their young children become test subjects for the world's first vaccine against malaria. Babies in three African nations are getting the first and only vaccine for malaria in a pilot program. World health officials want to see how well the vaccine works in Malawi, Ghana and Kenya before recommending its wider use. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





In this February 6, 2020, photo, a security guard stands outside of the Sino-Zambia Friendship Hospital in Kitwe, Zambia. The coronavirus that has spread through much of China has yet to be diagnosed in Africa, but global health authorities are increasingly worried about the threat as health workers on the ground warn they are not ready to handle an outbreak. (Photo by Emmanuel Mwiche/AP Photo)





Maasai women dressed in traditional regalia attend a memorial service for late former Kenya's President Daniel Arap Moi at the Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi, Kenya on February 11, 2020. (Photo by Njeri Mwangi/Reuters)





Displaced women, who fled from attacks of armed militants in town of Roffenega, ride donkey carts loaded with food aid at the city of Pissila, Burkina Faso on January 23, 2020. (Photo by Anne Mimault/Reuters)





A Somali farmer walks among desert locusts in a grazing land on the outskirt of Dusamareb in Galmudug region, Somalia on December 21, 2019. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)





An Ethiopian girl attempts to fend off desert locusts as they fly in a farm on the outskirt of Jijiga in Somali region, Ethiopia on January 12, 2020. (Photo by Giulia Paravicini/Reuters)





A local farmer Theophilus Mwendwa runs through a swarm of desert locusts to chase them away in the bush near Enziu, Kitui County, some 200km east of the capital Nairobi, Kenya, 24 January 2020. Large swarms of desert locusts have been invading Kenya for weeks, after having infested some 70 thousand hectares of land in Somalia which the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has termed the “worst situation in 25 years” in the Horn of Africa. FAO cautioned that it poses an “unprecedented threat” to food security and livelihoods in the region. (Photo by Dai Kurokawa/EPA/EFE)





In this photo taken Saturday, February 1, 2020, a plane spraying pesticides flies over a swarm of desert locusts in Nasuulu Conservancy, northern Kenya. As locusts by the billions descend on parts of Kenya in the worst outbreak in 70 years, authorities are flying low over affected areas in small planes and spraying pesticides in what experts call the only effective control. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





Swarms of locusts land and feed on shea trees, which are a big source of food and income for local farmers, in Otuke on February 17, 2020. Locust swarms have slowly been arriving into northern Uganda from neighbouring Kenya, threatening the livelihoods of local farmers and cattle herders. Government forces have been mapping out the swarms and spraying them with insecticides, however the real worry will be if these swarms lay eggs that will eventually hatch and spread. (Photo by Sumy Sadurni/AFP Photo)





A woman reacts as an injured child is assisted at the Madina hospital following a car bomb explosion at a checkpoint in Mogadishu, Somalia December 28, 2019. Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the bomb blast that killed at least 90 people while Somalia said a foreign government that it did not identify helped plan the attack. The bombing was the deadliest in more than two years in a country wrecked by nearly three decades of Islamist violence and clan warfare. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)





A civilian who was wounded in suicide car bomb attack is helped to be taken to hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday, December 28, 2019. A police officer says a car bomb has detonated at a security checkpoint during the morning rush hour in Somalia's capital. (Photo by Farah Abdi Warsame/AP Photo)





A girl walks towards her tent at a displacement camp for people affected by intense flooding in Beledweyne, Somalia, on December 14, 2019. The rains have inundated big areas surrounding Beledweyne area forcing thousands of people to leave their houses and look for humanitarian assistance while living in displacement camps. Due to climate change and human activities, cycles of floods and droughts have become more recurrent and completely unpredictable in Somalia exposing hundreds of thousands of people every year to vulnerability and displacement. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





A former child soldier works on the construction of a borehole in Bangui on November 17, 2019. To help the integration of child soldiers from armed groups, several NGOs have set up vocational training for them. In total, more than 13,000 children have been removed from armed groups in the Central African Republic since 2014, according to UNICEF. (Photo by Florent Vergnes/AFP Photo)





A camel seller is seen in the largest camel market in Nouakchott on January 18, 2020. A camel can be sold for around 550 euros and is used for its meat and milk. The milk is used to make camel cheese and yogurts. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)