Moroccan Fantasia (tbourida) horsemen ride their horses in the Atlantic ocean waters off a beach in leisure time during the annual Moussem festival of Moulay Abdellah Amghar near the city of El Jadida on August 8, 2023. (Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP Photo)





Law enforcement officers detain a protestor amidst an ongoing strike by taxi operators against traffic authorities in Masiphumelele, Cape Town, South Africa on August 8, 2023. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)





People of Masai Community perform a traditional dance show during the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples at Sekenani Camp in Masai Mara, Kenya on August 08, 2023. Masai community, one of the oldest tribes in East Africa, living in a semi-nomadic state, preserve their traditions and distinguish themselves from other tribes by wearing distinctive traditional clothing, and utilizing distinctive jewelry. The United Nations (UN) calls 'indigenous peoples' societies that have settled in a certain geography before being occupied by other peoples or states, and have been able to fully or partially preserve their traditional values, social, cultural or political ways of life and traditional institutions. (Photo by Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A woman walks across a road in Niamey on August 8, 2023. Despite the restrictions on freedoms, the coup in Niger is welcomed by many inhabitants of the Nigerien capital Niamey, opposed to the fallen regime and who now hope to make their voices heard. They were some 30,000 on Sunday at the Seyni Kountché stadium in Niamey, the largest in Niger, to support the soldiers who overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum, ending more than twelve years in power of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS). (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A Sudanese officer speaks to civilians recruited by the army as they take part in a military training in the Kassinger area of Sudan's Northern State on August 9, 2023. Four months into a battle both believed they would win, Sudan's army has lost its grip on Khartoum to paramilitaries, who are unable to declare victory and instead are accused of waging war on civilians. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Nigerien men carrying Russian and Niger flags ride their motorcycle to an anti-French protest in Niamey, Niger, Friday, August 11, 2023. The ECOWAS bloc said it had directed a “standby force” to restore constitutional order in Niger after its deadline to reinstate ousted President Mohamed Bazoum expired. (Photo by Sam Mednick/AP Photo)





Police officers look on as women walk past carrying buckets filled with water ahead of the presidential elections in Mbare township, in Zimbabwe on August 22, 2023. (Photo by Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)





Horse riders perform during the historic equestrian representation called “Tbourida” in Rabat, the capital city of Morocco, on August 12, 2023. Tbourida, UNESCO intangible cultural heritage dating back to the sixteenth century in Morocco, simulates a succession of military parades reconstructed according to ancestral conventions and rituals. In Tbourida, horses race for about 100 meters and performances end with a shot in the air. (Photo by Abu Adem Muhammed/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Irregular migrants are seen as an operation is carried out by coastguards teams of the Tunisian National Guard against the migrants who want to reach Europe illegally via the Mediterranean Sea, off the city of Sfax in Tunisia on August 12, 2023. (Photo by Yassine Gaidi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Children run in the streets of Niamey, Niger, Sunday, August 13, 2023. People marched, biked and drove through downtown Niamey, chanting “down with France” and expressing anger at ECOWAS. (Photo by Sam Mednick/AP Photo)





Tunisian women attend a National Women's Day celebration in Tunis, Tunisia, 13 August 2023. Tunisia observes Women's Day twice a year, on 08 March for International Women's Day (IWD) and on 13 August to commemorate the anniversary of the Promulgation of the Personal Status Code. (Photo by Mohamed Messara/EPA)





A tannery worker processes leather using traditional methods at a tannery workshop in Kano, Nigeria on August 13, 2023. Leather processed at tanneries of Kano are being exported to various countries to be used in the production of shoes, clothes, bags, wallets, belts and furniture. Tanneries also provide job opportunities for many citizens. (Photo by Zulyadain Isa Bello/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A man counts U.S. $100 bills at the craft and art market in Lagos, Nigeria, on Wednesday, August 16, 2023. Across the developing world, many countries are fed up with America's dominance of the global financial system – and especially the power of the dollar. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





Mechanics work on a car in Niamey, Niger, Friday, August 18, 2023. Niger, an impoverished country of some 25 million people, was seen as one of the last countries that Western nations could partner with in Africa's Sahel region to beat back a jihadi insurgency linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group. Before last month's coup, Europe and the United States had poured hundreds of millions of dollars into propping up its military. (Photo by Sam Mednick/AP Photo)





A group of Maasai men observe the ceremonial activities at the center of the ceremonial site during the Eunoto ceremony in a remote area near Kilgoris, Kenya on August 18, 2023. Hundreds of young Maasai take part in the Eunoto ceremony, a rite of passage that marks the transition from Moran (young warrior) to adulthood as junior elders. This ceremony is held by every clan once in a generation -every 8 to 10 years- and marks a new age-set. Eunoto, Enkipataa and Olng'esherr are the three main Maasai rites of passage that have been inscribed since 2018 on the Urgent Safeguardiang List of Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





Maasai Morans pull a cow that had escaped during a Eunoto ceremony, at Kilgoris, in Narok, Kenya's Rift Valley region, Saturday, August 19, 2023. The ceremony is one of the vital rites of passage among the indigenous nomadic Maasai community in which Morans (warriors) graduate to elders in a week-long ceremony culminating into a climax with songs, rituals and unique customs. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Followers of the Stowdart Sect of the Zion Church of God, sing and dance during a service in the historic neighborhood of Mbare in Harare on August 20, 2023. Zimbabweans will head to the polls on August 23, 2023 to vote in general and presidential elections. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Local resident Linah Shanga sits in front of election posters, ahead of the presidential elections, in Mbare township, in Harare, Zimbabwe on August 21, 2023. (Photo by Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)





This handout photograph taken and released by the Brazilian Presidency on August 21, 2023 shows soldiers of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) make an honour guard as President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (C) arrives at the OR Tambo International Airport in Ekurhuleni, ahead of the 2023 BRICS Summit. The BRICS countries, an acronym of the five members Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, meet for three days for a summit in Johannesburg starting August 22, 2023. (Photo by Ricardo STUCKERT/Brazilian Presidency via AFP Photo)





Women gather at a clinic to have their children vaccinated in Niamey, Niger, Monday, August 21, 2023. Severe economic and travel sanctions imposed by the West African regional bloc ECOWAS after mutinous soldiers ousted the country's democratically elected president in July, are taking a toll on Nigeriens and causing concern for health workers. (Photo by Sam Mednick/AP Photo)