Soldiers remove a dead man in a village near Tizi Ouzou some 100 km (62 miles) east of Algiers following wildfires in this mountainous region, Tuesday, August 10, 2021. Firefighters were battling a rash of fires in northern Algeria that have killed at least six people in the mountainous Kabyle region, the interior minister said Tuesday, accusing “criminal hands” for some of the blazes. (Photo by Fateh Guidoum/AP Photo)





People attempt to put out a fire in the mountainous Tizi Ouzou province, east of Algiers, Algeria on August 10, 2021. (Photo by Abdelaziz Boumzar/Reuters)





A house burns during a wildfire in Tizi Ouzou, one of the most populous cities in Algeria's Kabylie region, on August 10, 2021. Wildfires fanned by blistering temperatures and tinder-dry conditions have killed at least seven people in Algeria, the interior minister said, adding the fires had criminal origins. (Photo by Ryad Kramdi/AFP Photo)





A man dressed in traditional Oromo costume attends a rally to support the National Defense Force and to condemn the expansion of the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) fighters into Amhara and Afar regional territories at the Meskel Square in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on August 8, 2021. (Photo by Tiksa Negeri/Reuters)





South African Police (SAPS) personal guards the High Court as security measures remain high during the court case of former South African President Jacob Zuma, in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, 10 August 2021. Former President Zuma did not appear in person as he is in hospital and the case continued via a virtual sitting. (Photo by Kim Ludbrook/EPA/EFE)





Mobile Emergency Care Service (SAMU) doctor Yahya Niane, left, helps Binta Ba, who is eight month pregnant and has COVID-19, before transferring her to the hospital in Dakar, Senegal, Thursday, August 5, 2021. Ambulance services in the West African nation of Senegal say about 90% of their calls right now are responding to COVID-19 patients with trouble breathing. The avalanche of cases comes as Senegal confronts a devastating third wave with the arrival of the delta variant. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)





A fisherman makes his way through wetlands in Accra, the capital of Ghana on August 9, 2021. (Photo by Muntaka Chasant/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A woman looks at the landscape after wildfires in the village of Larbaa Nath Irathen, neat Tizi Ouzou, in the mountainous Kabyle region, 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of Algeria's capital of Algiers, Wednesday, August 11, 2021. At least 25 soldiers died saving residents from wildfires ravaging mountain forests and villages east of Algeria's capital, the president announced Tuesday night as the civilian toll rose to at least 17. (Photo by Fateh Guidoum/AP Photo)





A woman uses her mobile phone to light the ballot box as she casts her vote at a polling station in Lusaka, Zambia, Thursday August 12, 2021. Zambias standing as one of Africa's most stable democracies is being tested as the country votes amid violence, alleged intimidation and fears of vote rigging. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





Habiba Abdi Aden, a Somali woman mourns her son at a protest against the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) outside Erdogan Hospital following the killing of civilians during a gunfight between AMISOM and al Shabaab fighters in the Lower Shabelle region, in Mogadishu, Somalia on August 12, 2021. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)





A Kenyan woman receives a dose of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine donated by Britain, as her son watches, at the Makongeni Estate in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, August 14, 2021. In late June, the international system for sharing coronavirus vaccines sent about 530,000 doses to Britain – more than double the amount sent that month to the entire continent of Africa. It was the latest example of how a system that was supposed to guarantee low and middle-income countries vaccines is failing, leaving them at the mercy of haphazard donations from rich countries. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)





Armed Zambian police patrol the streets of the capital Lusaka, Zambia, Saturday, August 14, 2021. Supporters of Zambian opposition candidate Hakainde Hichilema have begun celebrating Saturday as early election results show him leading in the tightly-fought, tense presidential race. Ignoring calls by the Electoral Commission for people to wait peacefully for the final official results, young opposition supporters drove through the streets of the capital, Lusaka, playing music and singing. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





A woman sweeps outside her house in Lusaka, Zambia, Saturday, August 14, 2021. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





A supporter of main opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema kneels as a soldier assaults him, on a street, in Lusaka, Zambia, Sunday August 15, 2021. Veteran Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema appears on the verge of clinching the country’s presidency, with a commanding lead in votes. The 59-year old businessman, contesting the presidency for the sixth time, has more than 2.3 million votes to President Edgar Lungu’s 1.4 million votes, according to results announced Sunday by the Electoral Commission of Zambia. Hichilema narrowly lost two previous elections to Lungu in 2015 and 2016. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





Supporters of Zambian presidential candidate for the opposition party United Party for National Development (UPND) Hakainde Hichilema celebrate his election as Zambian President in Lusaka, on August 16, 2021. Zambia's opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema was on August 16, 2021 declared winner of the hotly contested presidential election after capturing more than 2.8 million votes. (Photo by Salim Dawood/AFP Photo)





A woman looks at wildfires tearing through a forest in the region of Chefchaouen in northern Morocco on August 15, 2021. Firefighters were battling overnight to put out two forest blazes, a forestries official said as the North African kingdom swelters in a heatwave that saw temperatures of up to 49 degrees Celsius (120 Fahrenheit) on the weekend, according to weather authorities. Morocco joins several other Mediterranean countries that have seen forest fires in recent weeks, including neighbouring Algeria where at least 90 people were killed in wildfires last week. (Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP Photo)





Supporters of Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema remove campaign posters of Zambian President Edgar Lungu from street poles in Lusaka, Zambia, Monday August 16, 2021. Hichilema has won the southern African country's presidency after taking more than 50% of the vote. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





A woman sells roasted corn on the streets of Lusaka, Zambia, Tuesday, August 17, 2021. Business quickly returned to normal in Zambia Tuesday, a day after veteran opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema was declared president-elect and the incumbent president Edgar Lungu conceded his election defeat. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





A Royal Moroccan Air Force Canadair plane douses a wildfire in the region of Chefchaouen of northern Morocco on August 17, 2021. Firefighters in northern Morocco are battling to put out two forest blazes, a forestries official said as the North African kingdom swelters in a heatwave. Firefighting planes were being used to tackle the conflagrations which had already destroyed some 200 hectares (500 acres) of forest. (Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP Photo)





Adherents of the rastafari sect, known as the Rastafari Society of Kenya, plant tree seedlings in commemoration of the birthday of Jamaican black empowerment activist, Marcus Garvey, at Oloolua Forest in Ngong on August 17, 2021. Although Garvey never actually followed Rastafari or believed in it, he is considered to be one of the religion's prophets, because it was his ideologies that eventually grew into the Rastafari faith. (Photo by Tony Karumba/AFP Photo)





A hyena stands chained to its handler at a circus in Gabasawa, Kano State, Nigeria, July 27, 2021. Hyenas are often viewed as repulsive and sinister, partly due to their scavenging habits in the wild, but in northern Nigeria some men keep the creatures in their homes, display them at festivals and even use their dung to make remedies. (Photo by Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)