Unmarried girls from the Shembe Church wait to make offerings after a service while on-top of the Nhlangakazi Holy Mountain during the annual Nazareth Baptist Church, (Shembe Church) pilgrimage near Durban, South Africa, 07 January 2023. On a hilltop in KwaZulu Natal in South Africa, thousands of members of the Nazareth Baptist Church gather for their annual pilgrimage. Known as the Nhlangakazi Holy Mountain, this sacred site is also the culmination of a 50km journey these predominantly Zulu pilgrims have made by foot, some coming from as far as the city of Durban, on South Africa’s east coast. After walking barefoot up the hill for the final leg of their trip, the pilgrims gather on the holy hilltop, the sound of their soothing hymns carrying through the breeze as they sit in prayer. (Photo by Kim Ludbrook/EPA/EFE)





South African Police Services (SAPS) officers detain a woman in the lobby of an apartment block in CBD in Johannesburg, on January 16, 2023 during disturbances with residents following the death of a drug dealer during a police raid. (Photo by Marco Longari/AFP Photo)





Karabo Meso of South Africa wipes away tears as they celebrate after the ICC Women's U19 T20 World Cup 2023 match between and at Willowmoore Park on January 16, 2023 in Benoni, South Africa. (Photo by Alex Davidson-ICC/ICC via Getty Images)





A woman collects items that are still intact to sell among waste material at Dandora, Nairobi's main dump site, in Kenya on January 14, 2023. Covering an area of 30 acres, the Dandora is the livelihood of many Kenyans from Korogocho, Baba Ndogo and Dandora regions, although it poses serious health threats. (Photo by Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





People collect items that are still intact to sell among waste material at Dandora, Nairobiâs main dump site, in Kenya on January 14, 2023. Covering an area of ââ30 acres, the Dandora is the livelihood of many Kenyans from Korogocho, Baba Ndogo and Dandora regions, although it poses serious health threats. (Photo by Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Paul Mitemberezi, a market vendor who has been disabled since he was 3 because of polio, leaves his house for the North Kivu Paralympic League, in Goma, democratic Republic of Congo, Tuesday January 17, 2023. When Pope Francis arrives in Congo and South Sudan Jan. 31, thousands of people will take special note of a gesture more grounded than the sign of the cross. Watching from their wheelchairs, they will relate to the way he uses his. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





Residents of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, demonstrate Wednesday January 18, 2023 against the scheduled arrival of South Sudanese troops set to join Kenyan forces deployed to assist the Congolese army in its fight against M23 rebels. Demonstrators clashed with police who said the protest was not authorised. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





Police clash with Residents of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, who were demonstrating Wednesday January 18, 2023 against the scheduled arrival of South Sudanese troops set to join Kenyan forces deployed to assist the Congolese army in its fight against M23 rebels. Police said the protest was not authorised. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





High priests take off their shoes as they reach the shore with the ark of the covenant to celebrate timkat (Ethiopian Epiphany) on lake Batu, Ethiopia, on January 18, 2023. (Photo by Amanuel Sileshi/AFP Photo)





Ethiopian Orthodox devotees attend a prayer during the celebration of the Ethiopian Epiphany on the shore of lake Ziway, also known as lake Dembel, Ethiopia, on January 19, 2023. (Photo by Amanuel Sileshi/AFP Photo)





High priests are seen with the ark of the covenant on a boat as they pray during the celebration of the Ethiopian Epiphany on lake Ziway, also known as lake Dembel, Ethiopia, on January 19, 2023. (Photo by Amanuel Sileshi/AFP Photo)





Amabutho Zulu regiments hold a British flag captured during the reenactment of the Battle of Isandlwana, in Isandlwana on January 21, 2023. The reenactment is performed annually by the Amabutho and the Dundee Diehards, a reenactment volunteers team from Dundeed. The battle, fought on January 22, 1879 was the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. (Photo by Marco Longari/AFP Photo)





Members of the Amabutho Zulu regiments parade before the reenactment of the Battle of Isandlwana, in Isandlwana on January 21, 2023. (Photo by Marco Longari/AFP Photo)





A member of the Amabutho Zulu regiments is congratulated by a member of the Dundee Diehards at the end of the Battle of Isandlwana, in Isandlwana on January 21, 2023. (Photo by Marco Longari/AFP Photo)





Somalia security carry away the dead body of someone who was in killed in clash between attackers and soldiers at the Banadir regional administration in Mogadishu, Sunday, January 22, 2023. Somalia's government says five civilians were killed when al-Qaida-linked extremists stormed a regional government office in the capital on Sunday. The founder of the Aamin ambulance service, Abdulkadir Adan, told The Associated Press his team collected 16 wounded people from the scene. (Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo)





Supporters of South Africa's biggest opposition party, the Democratic Alliance hold placards during a march to the headquarters of the governing African National Congress (ANC) over rolling power blackouts, in Johannesburg, South Africa, January 25, 2023. (Photo by Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)





Sudanese attend the annual celebration of al-Sharifa Mariam al-Mirghani, an influential Sufi figure known as the “Mother of the Poor” within the Beja community of eastern Sudan, in Sinkat around 120 kilometres from Port Sudan on January 26, 2023. (Photo by Ibrahim Ishaq/AFP Photo)





Mourners proceed bearing a cross and a coffin with the body of Tanzanian student, Nemes Tarimo, whose body arrived at his homeplace in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on January 27, 2023, after he was killed fighting for Russia in Ukraine after being recruited in jail. Nemes Tarimo was serving a seven-year term for an undisclosed offence when Russia's Wagner mercenary group recruited him for payment and the promise he would be freed after the war, Tanzanian authorities said this week. (Photo by Ericky Boniphace/AFP Photo)





Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga, of the Azimio La Umoja (Declaration of Unity) One Kenya Alliance, flanked by Embakasi East Constituency Member of Parliament Paul Ongili Owino, arrives at a rally to demand election reforms, lower taxes at the Jacaranda grounds in Embakasi district of Nairobi, Kenya on January 29, 2023. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





People walk outside the Cathedral Notre Dame du Congo in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo Saturday January 28, 2023. Pope Francis will be in Congo and South Sudan for a six-day trip starting Jan, 31, hoping to bring comfort and encouragement to two countries that have been riven by poverty, conflicts and what he calls a “colonialist mentality” that has exploited Africa for centuries. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)