A girl looks on in the family home of the late Ousmane Sylla ahead of his body's arrival in Conakry, Guinea, Monday, April 8, 2024. (Photo by Misper Apawu/AP Photo)





Mourners gather at the house of Ousmane Sylla's mother after his burial in Matoto Bonagui, a suburb of Conakry, Guinea, Tuesday, April 9, 2024. In Italy, he found despair. He spent months in a crowded, squalid migrant detention center, unable to contact his family. He died by suicide in February after other detainees said he became depressed and withdrawn. (Photo by Misper Apawu/AP Photo)





A man performs a dance in a traditional mask outside the house of Oumar Dieme, 91 (Not Pictured), an old Senegalese Tirailleurs in Badiana on May 14, 2024. Oumar Dieme has been invite to take part in carrying the Olympic flame through France ahead of the opening of the Olympic Games 2024 The French “Tirailleurs sénégalais” corps, created under the Second Empire (1852-1870) and disbanded in the 1960s, brought together soldiers from the former African colonies. The term refers to all African soldiers who fought under the French flag. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Mekelle 70 Enderta's midfielder Yohannes Tsegay, 24, (C) fights for the ball with a Raya Azebo's defender during a match at the Mekelle Football Stadium in Mekele, on May 25, 2024. The Ethiopian Football Federation has announced the return of the football clubs from Tigray to the Ethiopian Premier League after a two-year war between Ethiopia's government and Tigrayan rebel authorities tore the northern region apart before a November 2022 peace deal. The three Tigray-based teams, Mekelle 70 Enderta, Shire Endaselassie, and Welwalo Adigrat University, which were prominent in the league before the outbreak of the conflict, are now set to resume their positions. (Photo by Amanuel Sileshi/AFP Photo)





People watch as former president of the A.N.C. and South Africa Jacob Zuma, casts his ballot on Wednesday May 29, 2024 during general elections in Nkandla, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. South Africans are voting in an election seen as their country's most important in 30 years, and one that could put them in unknown territory in the short history of their democracy, the three-decade dominance of the African National Congress party being the target of a new generation of discontent in a country of 62 million people – half of whom are estimated to be living in poverty. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo)





Men play pool on the sidewalk outside the Markets of Warwick in the Durban CBD, Durban, South Africa on May 31, 2024. (Photo by Alaister Russell/Reuters)





A miner descends into the cave from which mineral lime is extracted in the Ndwendwe village in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, on Friday May 31, 2024. Mineral lime mining has become a lifeline for some impoverished families in Durban area. This versatile mineral is used for painting houses, facial protection, and even consumption if necessary. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo)





A miner prepares to descend into the cave from which mineral lime is extracted in the Ndwendwe village in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, on Friday May 31, 2024. Mineral lime mining has become a lifeline for some impoverished families in Durban area. This versatile mineral is used for painting houses, facial protection, and even consumption if necessary. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo)





Members of the Moroccan royal armed forces (FAR) take part in the joint US military exercise “African Lion” in the Tan-Tan region in southwestern Morocco on May 31, 2024. (Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP Photo)





A man raises his hands in prayer after members of Zion Christian Church performed baptisms, on the day the Electoral Commission of South Africa officially announces the results of the recent national election, at North Beach in Durban, South Africa on June 2, 2024. (Photo by Alaister Russell/Reuters)





Kenyan families whose homes were demolished by the Kenyan government to prevent the destruction of risky structures after the floods, try to continue their daily lives under difficult conditions in Nairobi, Kenya on June 03, 2024. The Kenyan government has begun demolishing risky structures in the Mathare slum on the banks of the river in Nairobi to prevent flood destruction. (Photo by Gerald Anderson/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Performers play in traditional costumes during the famous Fake Lion Show at a cultural event at Ngor beach in Dakar, on June 5, 2024. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Scavengers of scrap metal gather to search for their colleague under the rubble of a residential flat built on riparian land, that collapsed while undergoing demolition near the Mathare River, during World Environment Day under the theme of land restoration, desertification and drought resilience in Huruma District of Nairobi, Kenya on June 5, 2024. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





A member of the Dance Centre Kenya (DCK) rehearses before the opening night of the musical “Cats”, the world's longest-running musical which first opened in London in 1981, with a live orchestra in Nairobi on June 7, 2024. Dance Centre Kenya (DCK) has grown to become Kenya's pre-eminent and most diverse dance school with a commitment to teaching talented dancers, irrespective of their ability to pay for training. DCK's sponsorship plan in schools and informal settlements has already affected the lives of many aspiring dancers from disadvantaged backgrounds, some of them engaging in training programmes abroad with renowned international ballet schools. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)





A man jumps into the Indian Ocean waters to join other revellers in Hamarweyne district of Mogadishu, Somalia on June 7, 2024. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)





A drone view of fishermen unloading fish caught in a net during the sardine run in Scottburgh, South Africa, on June 12, 2024. (Photo by Rogan Ward/Reuters)





Mourners comfort one another at the home of Malawi's Vice President Saulos Chilima in Lilongwe, Malawi, Wednesday, June 12, 2024, Chilima, who was killed in a plane crash on Monday, will be honored with a state funeral after he was killed along with eight other people in the crash, according to Malawi's government. (Photo by Thoko Chikondi/AP Photo)





A vendor sells newspapers in Lilongwe, Malawi, Wednesday, June 12, 2024, following the death of Malawi's Vice President, Saulos Chilima, in a plane crash Monday. The Malawi government says that Chilima will be honored with a state funeral after he was killed along with eight other people in a plane crash. (Photo by Thoko Chikondi/AP Photo)





Kenya's Finance Minister Njuguna Ndung'u holds a briefcase containing the Government Budget for the 2024/25 fiscal year as police officers detain Julius Kamau, a vocal Kenyan rights activist as he protests outside the National Treasury buildings in Nairobi, Kenya on June 13, 2024. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





South African président Cyril Ramaphosa raises his hand as he is sworn is as a member of Parliament ahead of an expected vote by lawmakers to decide if he is reelected as leader of the country in Cape Town, South Africa, Friday, June 14, 2024. At right is Pemmy Majodina, an ANC lawmaker. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)