Models stand on the catwalk during Niger's designer Alia Bare show during Johannesburg Fashion Week 2023 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, November 9, 2023. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





Models get ready backstage for South African designer Gavin Rajah's show during Johannesburg Fashion Week 2023 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, November 9, 2023. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





Fashionistas wait for the start of Niger's designer Alia Bare's show during Johannesburg Fashion Week 2023 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, November 9, 2023. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





Niger fashion designer Alia Bare prepares a model for her show during Johannesburg Fashion Week 2023 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, November 9, 2023. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A fashionista takes a selfie during the second day of Johannesburg Fashion Week 2023, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, November 9, 2023. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





Models wear creations by Niger's designer Alia Bare during Johannesburg Fashion Week 2023 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, November 9, 2023. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A model wears a see-through dress during South African designer Gavin Rajah's show during Johannesburg Fashion Week 2023 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, November 9, 2023. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A young climate activist holds a banner in front of a plastic installation after marching to demand drastic reduction in global plastic production during the Break Free From Plastic Movement March ahead of the third meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-3) in Nairobi on November 11, 2023. The third session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-3) is scheduled to take place from November 13, 2023 in Nairobi and aims to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





Vehicles try to maneuver through flood water caused by heavy rain, in Mogadishu, Saturday, November 11, 2023. (Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo)





Incumbent Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina, candidate in the 2023 presidential election, his wife Mialy Rajoelina and their three children, ride in a pickup truck to greet supporters during his re-election campaign, in Toamasina, November 11, 2023. (Photo by Rijasolo/AFP Photo)





Children wade in floodwater outside the Hatata primary school following heavy rains at Mororo village, in Garissa county, Kenya on November 12, 2023. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A group of Muslim girls plant tree seedlings in an urban forest during the nationwide tree planting public holiday in Nairobi on November 13, 2023. The Kenyan Government has declared a special holiday on November 13, during which the public across Kenya is expected to plant trees as a contribution to the national efforts to save the country from the effects of climate change. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





A woman carries tree seedlings in a bag as she looks for a place to plant them during the nationwide tree planting public holiday in Nairobi on November 13, 2023. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





Somali displaced people sit after heavy floods hit their makeshift shelter, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, November 13, 2023. Somali authorities say floods caused by torrential rainfall have killed at least 30 people in various parts of the country. (Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo)





Collectors deliver a load of plastic waste scavenged from various environments including river channels and dump sites to T3 (EPZ) Limited, a recycling and repurposing factory in Athi River town, Machakos county on November 13, 2023. Negotiations to discuss concrete measures to combat plastic pollution began in Kenya at the opening of the third session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-3) to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution at the United Nations Office in Nairobi (UNON). (Photo by Tony Karumba/AFP Photo)





Somali children ride their donkey through flood water following heavy rains that have led the Juba river to overflow and flood large swathes of land in Dolow, Gedo region, Jubaland State of Somalia on November 13, 2023. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)





Polling station officials compare a voter's ID document to information on the voter's roll at a polling station in Monrovia on November 14, 2023. Liberians began voting on November 14, 2023 to decide whether to hand former football star George Weah a second term as president despite a controversial record, or to elect political veteran Joseph Boakai despite his age. (Photo by Rami Balaghi/AFP Photo)





Residents of Chamwana Muma village walk through flood water after using a makeshift bridge to cross the swollen River Tana, in Tana Delta, Kenya, on Wednesday November 15, 2023. Unrelenting rainfall across Kenya's northern counties and the capital, Nairobi, has led to widespread flooding, displacing an estimated 36,000 people and killing 46 people since the beginning of the rainy season less than a month ago. (Photo by Gideon Maundu/AP Photo)





Leading human rights lawyer Amal Clooney speaks next to former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama during the Discussion on Ending Child Marriage and Empowering Adolescent Girls at the Centre for the Book in Cape Town, South Africa on November 16, 2023. (Photo by Nic Bothma/Reuters)





President of Guinea-Bissau Umaro Sissoco Embalo (C) stands in his car during Guinea-Bissau's 50th Independence Day celebrations in Bissau on November 16, 2023. (Photo by Samba Balde/AFP Photo)