Tigrayan refugees who fled the conflict in the Ethiopia's Tigray try to find a network signal for their mobile phones in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 23, 2021. For months, it has been the Tigrayans' word against that of the government in Ethiopia, Africa's second most populous country and one of its most powerful. But now, for the first time, there is official proof of what is being called ethnic cleansing in the form of identity cards smuggled across the border into this Sudanese border post and confirmed to The Associated Press by more than a half-dozen refugees from different communities. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)





Catholic worshippers make their way to Easter Mass in Fadiouth on April 4, 2021. The village of Fadiouth lies on an island of clam shells with a foot bridge connecting it to mainland Senegal. Senegal as a whole has a majority of muslims but on the Island of Fadiouth it is around ninety percent Christian. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





An Altar boy carries a cross at the start of Easter Mass in Fadiouth on April 4, 2021. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





A Catholic worshipper makes her way to Easter Mass in Fadiouth on April 4, 2021. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





A Catholic Nun walks along a bridge towards the Island of Fadiouth, Senegal on April 3, 2021. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





People walk through a mixed Catholic and Muslim cemetery in Fadiouth, Senegal on April 3, 2021. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Catholic worshippers make their way to Easter Mass in Fadiouth on April 4, 2021. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





People are seen on the Island of Fadiouth, Senegal on April 3, 2021. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Children play along a road of clam shells in the Island of Fadiouth, Senegal on April 3, 2021. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Young girls walk along a bridge from the Island of Fadiouth, Senegal on April 3, 2021. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Catholic devotees attend Easter mass at La paroisse Saint Aloys d'Ijenda in Ijenda, Burundi, on April 4, 2021. (Photo by Tchandrou Nitanga/AFP Photo)





Senior Soloist Shana Dewey (R) waits backstage to perform during the final dress rehearsal for “Ballet and Beyond” by Joburg Ballet at the Joburg Theater, Johannesburg, South Africa, 08 April 2021. One year and one month after Joburg Ballet’s season was cut short by the start of the national Covid-19 Corona virus lockdown, the company returns to the stage of the Joburg Theatre from 09 to 11 April with Ballet and Beyond, a showcase of three world premieres and one SA premiere. (Photo by Kim Ludbrook/EPA/EFE)





Young students supported by the NGO Helpo during a lesson at Mahate elementary school in Pemba, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, 08 April 2021. The violence unleashed more than three years ago in Cabo Delgado province escalated again about two weeks ago, when armed groups first attacked the town of Palma. (Photo by Joao Relvas/EPA/EFE)





A man looks on as protesters erect makeshift barricades with tires and branches during a demonstration against Benin President Patrice Talon in Toui, an opposition stronghold, on April 7, 2021. President Talon is running for re-election in a vote on April 11, 2021, which he is favoured to win after critics say he cracked down on opponents. (Photo by Yanick Folly/AFP Photo)





Amandebele a group of protestors from KwaMhlanga dance outside the SABC offices in Pretoria, 14 April 2021. They demand the radio station Ikwekwezi FM be moved to their homelands and not to Johannesburg as is currently intended. (Photo by Jacques Nelles)





A Somali boy covers his face with sand at the Liido Beach during the last Friday ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Mogadishu, Somalia on April 9, 2021. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)





Tigrayan refugee Maza Girmay, 65, sits in her shelter, in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 15, 2021. “I heard food was being distributed”, she said. She went to the government office in her community of Bahkar to inquire. “They told me, Go home, you're Tigrayan”. The rejection brought her to tears. “We Tigrayans are Ethiopian. Why do they treat us as non-Ethiopian?” she said. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)





A farmer inspects tobacco leaves on the first day of the tobacco selling season of 2021 at the Tobacco Sales Floor in Harare, Zimbabwe, 07 April 2021. The selling season has begun under strict COVID-19 protocols with only a few farmers allowed to participate. Tobacco is the country's biggest foreign currency earner. (Photo by Aaron Ufumeli/EPA/EFE)





Mozambique army soldiers take a ride on a motorbike in the streets of Palma, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, 12 April 2021. The violence unleashed more than three years ago in Cabo Delgado province escalated again about two weeks ago, when armed groups first attacked the town of Palma. (Photo by Joao Relvas/EPA/EFE)





A carcass of a lesser flamingo is seen after being electrocuted at the Lake Magadi, Great Rift Valley in Kajiado, Kenya, 11 April 2021. According to community tourist guides at the lake, power lines supplying power to a chemical factory stationed at the lake has turned to death traps for migratory birds mainly flamingos. Tens of flamingos have been killed in the couple of weeks. They have been advocating for the power lines to be fitted with more bird diverters which are meant to distract the birds from the lines. Lake Magadi has been receiving a huge number of migratory flamingos migrating from lake Nakuru due to the high-water levels and contamination at lake Nakuru where there has been reported increase cases of flamingos deaths from suspected toxins inthe contaminated lake. (Photo by Daniel Irungu/EPA/EFE)