A person holds banknotes as people play pool in an open space in Harare, Zimbabwe, Wednesday, November 30, 2022. Previously a minority and elite sport in Zimbabwe, the game has increased in popularity over the years, first as a pastime and now as a survival mode for many in a country where employment is hard to come by. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





Artificial snow falls over dancers during The Nutcracker, a ballet primarily performed in the Christmas period, by the Dance Centre Kenya (DCK) with the Nairobi Philharmonic Orchestra at the National Theatre in Nairobi on December 3, 2022. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)





A street vendor sells Christmas decorations on a street corner in Harare, Zimbabwe, Tuesday, December 21, 2022. A buoyant holiday mood is not lifting the country which is coping with widespread power outages and the world's highest food inflation. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Light artworks installed ahead of the new year celebrations and Christmas in Nigerian capital Abuja on December 22, 2022. (Photo by Emmanuel Osodi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





M23 rebels prepare to leave after a ceremony to mark the withdrawal from their positions in the town of Kibumba, in the eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo, Friday, December 23, 2022. M23 rebels retreated from a village in eastern Congo Friday in the group's first withdrawal from an occupied village since it seized swaths of land months ago. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





Participants paddle in a boat during the traditional Isambo Beach Carnival, as part of the Christmas festivities, in Lake Victoria at Che's Bay near the Port Victoria town of Budalangi in Bunyala Sub-County of Busia, Kenya on December 23, 2022. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





Shoppers pass a Christmas tree at the entrance to the Rosebank Shopping Mall in Johannesburg Saturday, December 23, 2022. South Africa's Christmas 2022 is a start/stop affair because the country's daily power cuts are hitting just about every aspect of the holiday with businesses and families coping with rolling outages of electricity lasting from seven to 10 hours per day. (Photo by Denis Farrell/AP Photo)





Dancers perform during an annual slum party in Oworonshoki, Lagos, Nigeria on December 23, 2022. (Photo by Temilade Adelaja/Reuters)





Women prepare food for the annual slum party in Oworonshoki, Lagos, Nigeria on December 23, 2022. (Photo by Temilade Adelaja/Reuters)





Children watch a dancer perform during an annual slum party in Oworonshoki, Lagos, Nigeria on December 23, 2022. (Photo by Temilade Adelaja/Reuters)





A crime investigator directs others among scattered and covered bodies exploded in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg, Saturday, Saturday, December 24, 2022. A truck carrying liquified petroleum gas has exploded in the South African town of Boksburg, east of Johannesburg, killing at least 8 people and injuring 50 others on Saturday. (Photo by Shiraaz Mohamed/AP Photo)





A Christian faithful decorates a Christmas tree before Christmas Eve prayer at ROCK Church in Dandora dumpsite in Nairobi on December 24, 2022. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)





A young worshipper of the Legio Maria African Church Mission attends the Christmas Eve vigil mass at St. Helena Mathare Parish in the informal settlement of Mathare in Nairobi, Kenya on December 25, 2022. Legio Maria is an African independent religious movement among particularly the Luo people of western Kenya that developed gradually and eventually separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the 1960s. The religious movement was initiated by repeated appearances of a mystic woman delivering messages about the incarnation of the Son of God as a black man. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





Believers of the Legio Maria of African Church Mission covered in mud, attend a procession as part of their Christmas Mass near Ugunja, in Siaya County, Kenya on December 25, 2022. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





Worshippers of the Legio Maria African Church Mission attend the Christmas Eve vigil mass at St. Helena Mathare Parish in the informal settlement of Mathare in Nairobi, Kenya on December 25, 2022. Legio Maria is an African independent religious movement among particularly the Luo people of western Kenya that developed gradually and eventually separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the 1960s. The religious movement was initiated by repeated appearances of a mystic woman delivering messages about the incarnation of the Son of God as a black man. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





Hundreds of holiday makers enjoy themselves at the open Jomo Kenyatta Public Beach on Christmas day after attending church services in various churches in Mombasa town, Kenya, Sunday, December 25, 2022. (Photo by Gideon Maundu/AP Photo)





Soldiers of the South Sudan People's Defence Forces (SSPDF) prepare to be deployed to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after their departure ceremony at the SSPDF Headquarters in Juba on December 28, 2022. South Sudan will send 750 soldiers to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo soon to join a regional force fighting a rebel offensive, a military spokesman said Wednesday. Fierce fighting in recent months between Congolese troops and the M23 rebel group prompted the East African Community (EAC) bloc to deploy a joint regional force to quell the violence, with Kenya and Uganda also sending soldiers to the DRC. (Photo by Samir Bol/AFP Photo)





Soldiers of the South Sudan People's Defence Forces (SSPDF) prepare to be deployed to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after their departure ceremony at the SSPDF Headquarters in Juba on December 28, 2022. (Photo by Samir Bol/AFP Photo)





Revellers record using their mobile phones as fireworks explode over the UAP Old Mutual Tower during the New Year's Eve celebrations in Nairobi, Kenya on December 31, 2022. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





A reveller spins burning-steel wool to spread sparks of fire during the New Year's Eve celebrations in Nairobi, Kenya on January 1, 2023. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)