A group of Samburu women work making traditional Samburu ornaments and jewelry out of beads in Sera Conservancy, Samburu County, Kenya on May 10, 2022. The bead work will be sold through the Conservancy both in the local and international market creating a profitable income for the pastoralists Samburu families that have seen their traditional lifestyle threatened due to climate anomalies and the deterioration of rangelands. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





A woman with a child on her back waits in a queue to be screened for COVID-19 at a testing centre in Soweto, South Africa, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Health experts in South Africa say the country is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants. Professor Marta Nunes, a researcher at Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Analytics at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto said that for about three weeks the country has seen increasing numbers of new cases and somewhat higher hospitalizations, but not increases in severe cases and deaths. (Photo by Denis Farrell/AP Photo)





Wildlife ranger Salome Lemalasia, 30, strokes 5-year-old black rhino Loijipu in Sera Rhino Sanctuary, Samburu County, Kenya on May 11, 2022. Loijipu is an orphan black rhino who became the first black rhino calf to be born in a community conservancy in Kenya. Sera Rhino Sanctuary, in Sera Conservancy, is the first community-run black rhino sanctuary in East Africa. Kenya has lost nearly 70% of its wildlife in the past 30 years. Many conservancies in Kenya are transforming their models towards a community-based approach that allows local communities to improve their livelihoods while promoting conservation and facing the impact of climate change that threatens severely many of these protected areas. By placing communities at the centre of wildlife conservation and improving conservation incentives, conservancies in Kenya are securing livelihoods while reserving wildlife decline, resulting in the protection of Kenyas iconic wildlife for the future generations. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





A group of women sing and dance to celebrate the birth of a child in the main street of Muheto, a three-hour motorcycle ride from Masisi Centre in the middle of mountains where armed groups regularly attack, March 28, 2022, in North Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. In Masisi Territory, plagued by armed conflict for nearly 30 years, the population suffers from rebel groups and army abuses. Conflicts over land and control of strategic minerals, such as coltan, fuel violence and inter-ethnic tensions. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the clashes and looting in their villages and are crowding into camps for displaced people around the main towns. (Photo by Alexis Huguet/AFP Photo)





A performer stands in front of the thousands of knitted blankets on the school field at Steyn City to mark the upcoming Nelson Mandela Day as part of the 67 Blankets for Nelson Mandela Day project in Johannesburg, South Africa, 11 May 2021. The project sees thousands of blankets being knitted by “knitwits” and then given to those who need them during the cold winter in South Africa. Blankets are given away to those in need after the event. This year's event honored medical staff and first responders in the country for their work during the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis. (Photo by Kim Ludbrook/EPA/EFE)





Somali lawmakers are checked by security forces as they arrive to cast their vote in the presidential election, at the Halane military camp which is protected by African Union peacekeepers, in Mogadishu, Somalia Sunday, May 15, 2022. Legislators in Somalia are meeting Sunday to elect the country's president in the capital, Mogadishu, which is under lockdown measures aimed at preventing deadly militant attacks. (Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo)





Models use their phone lights during a power outage to put on make-up before the start of the third Ouaga Fashion Week in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Friday May 13, 2022. Ouaga Fashion Week returned to the Burkinabe capital after a two year COVID-19 related break. (Photo by Sophie Garcia/AP Photo)





Residents lineup to watch Models participate in the third edition of the Ouaga Fashion Week in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Saturday, May 14, 2022. Over 35 stylists and designers took part in the event, with some of the shows taking place in the streets of the capital. (Photo by Sophie Garcia/AP Photo)





Residents lineup to watch Models participate in the third edition of Ouaga Fashion Week in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Saturday, May 14, 2022. (Photo by Sophie Garcia/AP Photo)





A model wears a dress by designer Austin Loïc Ayih-Yenu during the third edition of the Ouaga Fashion Week in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Saturday, May 14, 2022. (Photo by Sophie Garcia/AP Photo)





A picture taken on May 16, 2022 in Harare shows stocks of elephant ivory stacked one on top of another inside a strong room where the country's ivory is secured during a tour of the stockpile by European Union envoys. The wild life authority campaigns to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) for a once off sale of the elephant ivory on the legal market with proceeds going to benefit communities surounding animal conservancy areas. (Photo by Jekesai Njikizana/AFP Photo)





Visitors take pictures of art installations during the 14th edition of Senegal's Biennale of African Contemporary Art, in Dakar, Senegal, May 19, 2022.. (Photo by Elodie Toto/Reuters)





Local residents move to safety aftet they were trapped following heavy rains and winds in Umdloti north of Durban, on May 22, 2022. Floods, mudslides and rainstorms struck the South African port city of Durban and surrounding KwaZulu-Natal province. (Photo by Rajesh Jantilal /AFP Photo)





A man crosses a flooded bridge, caused by heavy rains, in kwaNdengezi near Durban, South Africa, May 22, 2022. (Photo by Rogan Ward/Reuters)





A flood-damaged apartment building near Durban, South Africa, Monday, May 23, 2022. More than 300 people have been evacuated from their homes as a result of renewed heavy rains, flooding and mudslides in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province, weeks after severe flooding killed more than 400 people and displaced more than 40,000 others. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A couple, centre, attempt to make their way through muddy waters on a beach near Durban, South Africa, Sunday, May 22, 2022. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Congolese civilians and their animals flee near the Congolese border with Rwanda after fightings broke out in Kibumba, outside Goma in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo on May 24, 2022. (Photo by Djaffar Sabiti/Reuters)





Men wearing traditional costumes ride horses during a horse race in Misrata, Libya on May 24, 2022. (Photo by Ahmed Hazem/Reuters)





Somali displaced girl Sadia Ali, 8, drinks water from a tap at the Kaxareey camp for the internally displaced people in Dollow, Gedo region of Somalia on May 24, 2022. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)





Internally displaced children pose for a photo next to a donkey-cart outside their makeshift shelters at the Kaxareey camp for the internally displaced people in Dollow, Gedo region of Somalia on May 24, 2022. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)