Residents stand on a tree for safety as floodwaters cover a road following heavy rains in the Ndjili district of Kinshasa on April 6, 2025. (Photo by Hardy Bope/AFP Photo)





Residents wade through murky floodwaters following heavy rains in the Ndjili district of Kinshasa on April 6, 2025. Heavy downpours in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa have left around 30 people dead while wrecking havoc in the central African megacity, an official told AFP on April 6, 2025.After the rain poured down overnight from Friday to Saturday, the rising water levels devastated several outlying and impoverished suburbs of the metropolis of some 17 million people. (Photo by Hardy Bope/AFP Photo)





A man pushes his motorcycle in a flooded street in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 07 April 2025. At least 33 deaths have been recorded according to Ministry of the Interior during a flood of the Ndjili River bursting its banks in the city of Kinshasa. (Photo by Chris Milosi/EPA/EFE)





Puppeteer crouche next to a life size animal puppet, part of the Herds public art and climate action project are displayed in Kinshasa on April 9, 2025. A wildebeest, a gorilla and a giraffe were among the life-size puppets to begin a 20,000-kilometre (12,400-mile) trek across the globe Wednesday from the DR Congo capital, to raise awareness about migration due to climate change.The animals are part of The Herds project and aim to have crossed around 10 countries between central Africa and the Arctic by August. Their journey will take them through Nigeria, Senegal, Morocco, France and Norway, among other countries. (Photo by Hardy Bope/AFP Photo)





Moroccan nomads dressed in traditional garments take part in a sand hockey match during the Nomads Festival in Mhamid El-Ghizlane in Morocco's southern Sahara desert on April 12, 2025. (Photo by Abdel Majid Bziouat/AFP Photo)





Young artisans transform scrap metal into modified vehicles, automated robotic units, and portable biomass stoves in Kariokor region of Nairobi, Kenya on April 12, 2025. The vocational training initiative, which involves around 30 youth, provides participants with a daily income of between 5 and 10 US dollars while helping them develop technical skills. The program also aims to prevent youth from turning to crime and substance abuse. (Photo by Gerald Anderson/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Catholic faithful buy palm branches outside Goma Cathedral ahead of the Palm Sunday mass, locally known as Matawi, in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo on April 13, 2025. (Photo by Jospin Mwisha/AFP Photo)





People who fled the Zamzam camp for the internally displaced after it fell under RSF control, queue for food rations in a makeshift encampment in an open field near the town of Tawila in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region on April 13, 2025. Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced on April 13 that it had taken control of the famine-hit Zamzam camp, home to over 500,000 refugees according to the United Nations, after two days of heavy shelling and gunfire, amid its ongoing war with the country's army and affiliated forces. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Women mourn the death of a family member following an attack by gunmen in the Zike farming community in north-central Nigeria, April 15, 2025. (Photo by Samson Omale/AP Photo)





Christians reenact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in a Way of the Cross procession on Good Friday during Holy Week in the informal settlement of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, April 18, 2025. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)





Church elders baptise a worshipper on the beach on Good Friday in Durban, South Africa, on April 18, 2025. (Photo by Rogan Ward/Reuters)





Members of St. Dominic Catholic Church take part in a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, on Good Friday in Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria, on April 18, 2025. (Photo by Sodiq Adelakun/Reuters)





Puppeteers move cardboard animals in canoes at the Makoko Slum in Lagos Nigeria, Saturday, April 19, 2025, as part of “The Herds”, a moving theatre performance that started its journey from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Arctic Circle in a bid to bring attention to the climate crisis. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





Traders trade live chickens in a street market a day before Ethiopian Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter Sunday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Saturday, April 19, 2025. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A person takes part in the Lagos Fanti Carnival to celebrate the Afro-Brazilian colours and rhythm, to bring into memory the descendants of formerly enslaved Africans, in Marina, Lagos Island, Nigeria, on April 20, 2025. (Photo by Sodiq Adelakun/Reuters)





Somali National Army trainee soldiers take part in military drills in Hiilweyne training institute in a military base north of Mogadishu on April 21, 2025 in Mogadishu, Somalia. Two thousand men are being trained at the base, which came under attack for the first time last week when militant group Al-Shabaab fired a mortar round into the grounds, killing one trainee and injuring two others, accounting to commanders at the base. There are concerns of a jihadist resurgence in Somalia amid growing attacks by Al-Shabaab, which has been fighting the government for nearly two decades and controls swathes of the southern and central parts of the country. Last week, Al-Shabaab fighters raided the strategically important town of Adan Yabaal, north of Mogadishu, prompting a U.S.-backed airstrike on the militants. Besides the United States, Somali also has support from other international partners, including the African Union's new Stabilization and Support mission in Somalia, known as AUSSOM. But there is uncertainty about the future of AUSSOM's mandate after the U.S. recently objected to a United Nations proposal for funding the mission. (Photo by Ed Ram/Getty Images)





Women queue at the entrance of a building where civilians are registering to vote on April 23, 2025 in Mogadishu, Somalia. People registering told Getty Images they had been queueing for more than four hours. The country launched the first voter registration drive in over 50 years ahead of presidential elections planned for 2026. The country has long used an indirect, clan-based voting system, but its current president has pledged to implement a one-person, one-vote model. (Photo by Ed Ram/Getty Images)





Tanzania police officers detain a supporter of the opposition leader and former presidential candidate of CHADEMA party Tundu Lissu, near the Kisutu Residents Magistrate Court in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Emmanuel Herman/Reuters)





A Tanzania police officer attempts to detain a supporter of the opposition leader and former presidential candidate of CHADEMA party Tundu Lissu, as he runs from their pick-up truck, outside the Kisutu Residents Magistrate Court in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Emmanuel Herman/Reuters)





A child lying on a car roof touches a life size animal puppets moved by a puppeteer, part of the Herds public art and climate action project, in Ouakam district in Dakar on 26 April, 2025. A wildebeest, a gorilla and a giraffe are among the life-size puppets pursuing a 20,000-kilometre (12,400-mile) trek across the globe that started on April from the DR Congo capital, to raise awareness about migration due to climate change. The animals are part of The Herds project and aim to have crossed around 10 countries between central Africa and the Arctic by August. Their journey are taking them through Nigeria, Senegal, Morocco, France and Norway, among other countries. (Photo by Nicolas Remene/AFP Photo)