A young boy plays with a ball outside a blocked sewer drain in Harare, Zimbabwe, Saturday November 18, 2023. Zimbabwe is battling a cholera outbreak that has resulted in more than 150 suspected deaths countrywide. Health experts, authorities and residents blame the outbreak on acute water shortages and lack of access to sanitation and hygiene services (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





Supporters of president Felix Tshisekedi gather in a stadium to attend a campaign rally ahead of the presidential elections, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sunday, November 19, 2023. (Photo by Samy Ntumba Shambuyi/AP Photo)





Women walk through flood water after heavy rainfall, in Mogadishu Somalia, Monday, November 20, 2023. (Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo)





One of the Puntland Maritime Police Force (PMPF) (L) stands guard as one of them (C), prays during a stop over as they provided VIP security escort to a group of guests traveling to the port city Bosaso, in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland, in the Gulf of Aden Somalia, 21 November 2023. The PMPF which was founded in October 2010, as an anti-piracy forces that can eradicate piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden, Red Sea and the Indian ocean and fighting terrorism, their presence in Garowe and Bosaso have increasingly been noticed as tensions continue to raise as the regional leader Said Abdullahi Deni whose term is set to end in January 2024 is clashing with the opposition over the dates and electoral system to be used in the upcoming elections. (Photo by Daniel Irungu/EPA)





Nancy Igwe smashes a musical keyboard at the Shadow rage room, a place where people can destroy objects to vent anger, in Lagos, Nigeria on November 21, 2023. (Photo by Temilade Adelaja/Reuters)





Herdsmen assists some of their goats to cross a flooded area next to a road destroyed by flash floods at the Garissa-Wajir Road in Maalimin on November 21, 2023. The Horn of Africa is experiencing torrential rainfall and floods linked to El Nio climate pattern. Several communities are isolated as thousands of homes have been destroyed or damaged by floods that struck at least 33 of Kenya's 47 counties, killing more than 70 people and displacing many across the East African nation. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





An aerial view shows a deserted and flooded traditional homestead following heavy rains in Garsen, Tana Delta within Tana River county, Kenya on November 23, 2023. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





Residents cross a road damaged during flooding in Tula, Tana River county in Kenya on November 25, 2023. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)





Senegalese people wearing traditional face paints and clothes, perform dances belonging to ethnic group “'Lebu'” settled in Yoff village, as mayor of the commune of Yoff, Seydina Issa Laye Samb and many officials attend the Dakar Carnival where they celebrate their cultural richness and expressing the diversity of traditional and modern cultural heritage in Dakar, Senegal on November 25, 2023. (Photo by Cem Ozdel/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Workers carrying loads with horse carts on the ocean shore are seen in the light of the full moon appearing in the Yoff region, Dakar, Senegal on November 26, 2023. (Photo by Cem Ozdel/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Fishing boats (Pirogue) compete in a race as Senegalese people wearing traditional face paints and clothes, perform dances belonging to ethnic group “Lebu” settled in Yoff village, during the 4th Dakar Carnival where they celebrate their cultural richness and expressing the diversity of traditional and modern cultural heritage at Kossoupe Beach in Dakar, Senegal on November 26, 2023. (Photo by Cem Ozdel/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A man sells fruits on the street in Lagos, Nigeria Wednesday, November 29, 2023. Nigeria's leader on Wednesday presented a $34 billion spending plan for 2024 to federal lawmakers with a key focus on stabilizing Africa's largest but ailing economy and fighting the nation's deadly security crisis. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





12-year-old Agnes Wanjiru's daughter Stacy Wanjiru (L), Agnes Wanjiru's sister Rose Wanyua (C) and Agnes Wanjiru's niece Esther Njoki (R) hug as they get emotional after the postponement of the hearing of the case for the alleged murder of Agnes Wanjiru by a British soldier at the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi on November 29, 2023. Agnes Wanjiru, 21, was last seen alive with British troops at a hotel in the Kenyan town of Nanyuki in 2012, before body was found three months later at a septic tank near an army base. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





People cross a flooded area on makeshift floating tanks at Mororo, border of Tana River and Garissa counties, North Eastern Kenya, Thursday, November 30, 2023. Kenya's government is urging people living in flood-prone areas to relocate to higher ground as heavy rains and flash floods continued to wreak havoc across East Africa. (Photo by AP Photo)





A man enters a mosque before prayers in Banjul on November 30, 2023. (Photo by Muhamadou Bittaye/AFP Photo)





Kenyan soldiers from the East African Community regional force (EAC-RF) prepare to leave the Democratic Republic of Congo at Goma airport on December 3, 2023. The East African Community regional force (EAC-RF) began its withdrawal from the Democratic Republic of Congo early on December 3, an AFP team observed, after Kinshasa did not renew its mandate. The EAC first deployed troops in the violence-plagued region in November last year after the resurgence of the M23 rebel group. (Photo by Alexis Huguet/AFP Photo)





A participant takes part in donkey racing, during the 21st edition of annual Lamu Cultural Festival, in Lamu, Kenya, Saturday December 2, 2023. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Vacationers play with inflatable donuts at a water park in Bishoftu on December 3, 2023. Just 40 kilometres outside Addis Ababa in the Oromia Region, Bishoftu is known for the number of crater lakes and its resorts, which makes it one of the premium leisure spots in the vicinity of the Ethiopian capital. (Photo by Michele Spatari/AFP Photo)





A ram is transported in a rickshaw to venue of the ram fighting competition at the National Stadium in Lagos Nigeria, Sunday, December 3, 2023. Ram fighting is a sport between two rams with the same weight category held in an open field. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





People dressed in traditional clothes perform, during the annual celebration of the Berom tribes, in Lagos Nigeria, Sunday, December 3, 2023. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)