Kenyan women sort plastic waste products at a collection centre where they are later taken to a plastic recycling factory in Kariobangi, in Nairobi, Kenya, 03 December 2018. According to a report by the UN, the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have gone up for the first time in four years and that the year 2018 is set to be the fourth hottest year on record. The report comes just days ahead of the COP24 United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place in Poland from 02 to 14 December. (Photo by Daniel Irungu/EPA/EFE)





The Nairobi skyline is seen in the background as a black rhino walks through the Nairobi National Park, near Nairobi, Kenya, November 21, 2018. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)





In this August 7, 2010 file photo, young soccer and basketball players share space on a basketball court local residents say was built several years ago by Charlotte Bobcats' Dasagana Diop in the neighborhood where he grew up in Dakar, Senegal. The NBA has big plans for Africa where an office was established eight years ago in South Africa and there's an annual exhibition game featuring NBA stars. (Photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo)





Boys play as a woman prepares smoked fish in Jamestown in Accra, Ghana on November 28, 2018. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





Sub-Saharan migrants compete at a table game as a way to make money, at Ouled Ziane camp in Casablanca, Morocco, Thursday, December 6, 2018. As Morocco prepares to host the signing of a landmark global migration agreement next week, hundreds of migrants are languishing in a Casablanca camp rife with hunger, misery and unsanitary conditions. These sub-Saharan Africans who dream of going to Europe are a symbol of the problems world dignitaries are trying to address with the U.N.'s first migration compact. (Photo by Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP Photo)





People from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) disinfect their feet at the Ebola screening point bordering with DRC in Mpondwe, western Uganda, on December 12, 2018. The second largest Ebola outbreak in Africa has strated in Democratic Republic of Congo causing 298 deaths since August 2018, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). (Photo by Isaac Kasamani/AFP Photo)





Deacons and a priest perform the Beza Kulu ceremony around Bete Mariam (Saint Mary's Church) during Orthodox Christmas/Gena celebrations on January 07, 2019 in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Ethiopians follow the Julian calendar and therefore the Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7th. (Photo by J. Countess/Getty Images)





Members of Dance Centre Kenya (DCK), wait in the stage wing during a production of the “Nutcracker”, a ballet primarily performed during the Christmas period as their fourth annual show, along with the Nairobi Philharmonic Orchestra playing the score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky at the National theater in Nairobi, on December 1, 2018. - DCK, founded by a few passionate families in early 2015, teach over 600 students at 3 studios in Nairobi, and provides lessons based on the Royal Academy of Dance Syllabus. Selected students in various schools and slums receive scholarships to promote developing their talents. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)





A forest warden walks in front of a billboard that promotes the conservation of primates in forest reserves on November 5, 2018. Environmental campaigners want Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo and his government to abandon plans to mine bauxite in the Atewa Range Forest Reserve, in the country's Eastern Region, arguing it will destroy the habitat of rare plants and animals. Akufo-Addo, who comes from Kyebi, on the eastern slopes of the forest, has signed a multi-billion dollar agreement with China to provide the mineral in exchange for infrastructure projects. (Photo by Cristina Aldehuela/AFP Photo)





Supporters of the newly elected president of the Democratic republic of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, celebrate in the streets of Kinshasa on January 10, 2019. The Democratic Republic of Congo's opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi was named on January 10 the provisional winner of a long-awaited presidential poll paving the way for the crisis-hit country's first transfer of power in 18 years. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





A malnourished child is weighed while other children wait their turn in the Bangui paediatric complex on December 4, 2018. In Central African Republic, infant mortality is the highest in the world, with two out of three children, or 1.5 million people, in need of humanitarian assistance, according to a UNICEF report from 2018. (Photo by Florent Vergnes/AFP Photo)





Supporters of opposition presidential candidate Felix Tshisekedi party outside his headquarters as they wait for election results to be released in Kinshasa, Congo, Wednesday January 9, 2019. As Congo anxiously awaits the outcome of the presidential election, many in the capital say they are convinced that the opposition won and that the delay in announcing results is allowing manipulation in favor of the ruling party. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Port Bouet during the local elections, on December 16, 2018 in Abidjan. Six locals and two regionals elections were canceled in Ivory Coast on October, 2018 during a civil unrest. (Photo by Sia Kambou/AFP Photo)





Impalas walk near the elevated railway that allows movement of animals below the tracks at the construction site of Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) in Nairobi National Park, Kenya, on November 21, 2018. The SGR phase 2A project is an 120km extensiton of the Mombasa-Nairobi SGR project (Phase 1) to Naivasha with the longest railway bridge in the country, 5.8km Super Major Bridge, constructed across Nairobi National Park. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)





A portrait of former U.S. President Barack Obama is seen spray painted on an overloaded Nairobi Commuter Rail Service (NCRS) commuter train, as passengers travel from the Mutindwa station, during a strike by the Federation of Public Transport operators in Nairobi, Kenya on November 12, 2018. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





Relatives mourn near the casket of Bosco Nyanzi, who died after a cruise boat capsized in Lake Victoria off Mukono district, during his funeral service in Kampala, Uganda on November 26, 2018. (Photo by Newton Nambwaya/Reuters)





A girl stands outside her one-room home in Medina neighbourhood, Dakar, Senegal, December 11, 2018. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





Tipape Lekatoo, a Maasai Moran from Mbirikani Manyatta, competes in a traditional high-jump event during the 2018 Maasai Olympics at the Sidai Oleng Wildlife Sanctuary, at the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro, near the Kenya-Tanzania border in Kimana, Kajiado, Kenya December 15, 2018. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





A mother of a child, suspected of dying from Ebola, cries near her child's coffin in Beni, North Kivu Province of Democratic Republic of Congo, December 17, 2018. (Photo by Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)





Boys help to clean Saint Benoit church during Christmas day preparations, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, December 24, 2018. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)





A man pulls a cart with barrels in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, December 27, 2018. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)





Congolese worshipers listen to Msg. Fridolin Ambongo, the the newly appointed Archibishop of Kinshasa, deliver the homily during an early midnight mass at the Notre Dame du Congo Cathedral in Kinshasa, Congo, Monday December 24, 2018. Ambobgo said that Congolese people must embrace non-violence to make it through Dec. 30th elections. He warned that “The publication of results that would not reflect the will of the people as expressed in the ballot boxes would mean the annihilation of peace in our country”. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





In this photograph taken Sunday December 23, 2018, CENI agents monitor the printing of ballots at the electoral commission's headquarters in Kinshasa, Congo. As Congo hurtles toward an already troubled election on Sunday, Dec. 30 the opposition is urging mobile phone companies to disable SIM cards provided for voting machines. Concerns are growing about how the ballots of some 40 million people will be counted and shared. Some worry that electronic transmission of results by the machines could open the door to manipulation. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





In this photo taken Wednesday, December 5, 2018, a woman who scavenges recyclable materials from garbage for a living is seen through a cloud of smoke from burning trash, surrounded by Marabou storks who feed on the garbage, at the dump in the Dandora slum of Nairobi, Kenya. As the world meets again to tackle the growing threat of climate change, how the continent tackles the growing solid waste produced by its more than 1.2 billion residents, many of them eager consumers in growing economies, is a major question in the fight against climate change. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)