Kids play at a scrap metal collection point in Hopley, a poor settlement about 15 kilometres west of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, Zimbabwe on July 22, 2022. (Photo by Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)





Kamo Mphela, a South African dancer and singer performs Amapiano, a South African musical export that has crossed borders and cultural barriers, reaching as far as Japan, during a music concert in Pretoria, South Africa, July 22, 2022. (Photo by Shafiek Tassiem/Reuters)





People look at the wreckage of a bus that plunged into Nithi bridge on Sunday, in Tharaka Nithi county Meru, Kenya, Monday, July 25, 2022. Police in Kenya say at least 21 people have died after a bus fell off a bridge and plunged into a river along the highway from the capital, Nairobi, to the central town of Meru. One senior policeman said the bus, traveling from Meru, “must have developed brake failure because it was at a very high speed” when the crash occurred. (Photo by Dennis Dibondo/AP Photo)





Looters flee the scene of a looted warehouse belonging to the peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) at the UN facilities in Goma on July 25, 2022. Protesters stormed a United Nations base in the eastern Congolese city of Goma today, an AFP journalist said, demanding the departure of peacekeepers from the region. (Photo by Michel Lunanga/AFP Photo)





A fan reacts during the team victory welcome at the OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, July 26, 2022, after the team's victory at the Women's Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco on 23 July 2022. (Photo by Themba Hadebe/AP Photo)





A woman attends a rally calling for an end to ethnic tensions and civil conflict following an escalation of violence in Blue Nile state and Darfur, in Khartoum, Sudan on July 26, 2022. (Photo by Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters)





Demonstrators clash with police during a protest against the United Nations peacekeeping force (MONUSCO) deployed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Sake, some 15 miles (24 kms) west of Goma, Wednesday July 27, 2022. Officials say more than 15 people have been killed and dozens injured during the demonstrations against the UN mission in the country, heading into their third day. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





A demonstrator sits after being wounded during a protest against the United Nations peacekeeping force (MONUSCO) deployed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Sake, some 15 miles (24 kms) west of Goma, Wednesday July 27, 2022. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





A billboard asking Kenyans to vote for Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga, referred to affectionately as “Baba”, the Swahili word for “father”, and his running mate Martha Karua, rises above shacks in the low-income Mathare neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, July 29, 2022. Kenya's Aug. 9 election is ripping open the scars of inequality and corruption as East Africa's economic hub chooses a successor to President Uhuru Kenyatta. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)





Lesiken Maten 45, a Samburu pastoralist takes his goats to a puddle near a dry river bank following a prolonged drought while a man bathes near Lengusaka in Wamba, Samburu county, Kenya on July 27, 2022. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





Maasai supporters of Kenya's opposition leader and presidential candidate Raila Odinga of the Azimio la Umoja (Declaration of Unity) party, wearing traditional clothes, attend a campaign rally ahead of the forthcoming general election in the Rift Valley town of Suswa, Narok county, Kenya on July 30, 2022. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





Samburu tribes women queue to receive relief meat in the de-stocking of emaciated animals in a program by the government and the Kenya Red Cross to buy livestock, slaughter and distribute the meat as relief food to the most affected families following a prolonged drought near Lengusaka in Wamba, Samburu county, Kenya July 27, 2022. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





An Azimio La Umoja (One Kenya Coalition Party) supporter holds a poster that reads “Baba for President” in reference to presidential candidate Raila Odinga, during a campaign rally in Suswa Grounds, Narok, Kenya on July 30, 2022, ahead of Kenya's general election. On August 9, 2022 Kenyans will head to the polls in a contested tight battle between veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga and current Deputy President William Ruto as they traverse the country vying for electorate support. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





A supporter withstands a gust of wind created by the helicopter carrying Kenya's Opposition leader and presidential candidate Raila Odinga of the Azimio la Umoja (Declaration of Unity) party, after a campaign rally ahead of the forthcoming general election, in the Rift Valley town of Suswa, Narok county, Kenya on July 30, 2022. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





A man casts his vote for legislative elections, at a polling station in Dakar, Senegal, Sunday, July 31, 2022. The West African nation is holding legislative elections, a vital test for opposition parties trying to minimize ruling party influence before 2024 presidential elections amid worries President Macky Sall may seek a third term. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)





A woman leaves a voting station in the popular neighbourhood of Ngor in Dakar on July 31, 2022. Senegalese voters head to the polls on July 31 for parliamentary elections the opposition hopes will force a coalition with President Macky Sall and curb any ambitions he may hold for a third term. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Villagers try to pull up the minibus in which 14 bodies were retrieved from inside in the river Nabuyonga in Namakwekwe, eastern Uganda, on August 1, 2022. The number of people killed in flash floods in the eastern Ugandan city of Mbale has jumped to 22, including a group of partygoers who became trapped in a minibus, police said on August 1, 2022. Two rivers burst their banks at the weekend after the city was battered by heavy rainfall, leading to mudslides that inflicted widespread damage and left many residents homeless. (Photo by Badru Katumba/AFP Photo)





A hawker sells second hand shoes next to campaign posters of various candidates in Nairobi, on August 02, 2022, ahead of Kenya's August 2022 general election. (Photo by Simón Maina/AFP Photo)





This aerial view shows Kenya's Deputy President and presidential candidate William Ruto of Kenya Kwanza (One Kenya) political party coalition speaking to supporters from a car during his rally in Thika, Kenya, on August 3, 2022. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)





Supporters of the Kenya Kwanza Coalition shout slogans at the venue of a political rally attended by the coalition’s presidential candidate and Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto at Thika town, in Kiambu, Kenya, on 03 August 2022. Kenyan politicians continue to gear-up their political rallies as Kenya heads to its general elections on 09 August 2022. (Photo by Daniel Irungu/EPA/EFE)