In this Friday June 19, 2020, a woman wearing a face mask passes a coronavirus billboard carrying a message in a bid to prevent the spread of the virus. South Africa's Health Minister Zwelini Mkhize said Sunday June 28, 2020 the country's current surge of COVID-19 cases is expected to dramatically increase in the coming weeks and press the country's hospitals to the limit. (Photo by Themba Hadebe/AP Photo/File)





A man walks past an informational mural with messages in English and Swahili warning people about the dangers of the new coronavirus and how to prevent transmission, painted by youth artists from the Uweza Foundation, in the Kibera slum, or informal settlement, of Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, July 8, 2020. Africa now has more than a half-million confirmed coronavirus cases, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but the true number of cases among Africa's 1.3 billion people is unknown as its 54 countries face a serious shortage of testing materials for the virus. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)





In this June 19, 2020, file photo, protesters demanding President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's resignation take to the streets in the capital Bamako, Mali. The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Monday, June 29, to extend the mandate of the 15,600-strong U.N. peacekeeping force in Mali for a year and called for a long-term road map with benchmarks and conditions for the force to hand over security responsibilities and leave the West African nation. Mali has been in turmoil since a 2012 uprising prompted mutinous soldiers to overthrow the president of a decade. (Photo by Baba Ahmed/AP Photo/File)





In this Sunday, July 14, 2019 file photo, Red Cross workers carry the remains of 16-month-old Muhindo Kakinire, who died of Ebola, from the morgue into a truck as health workers disinfect the area in Beni, Congo. The World Health Organization on Thursday, June 25, 2020, has declared an end to the second deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, that killed 2,280 people over nearly two years. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo/File)





A Somali soldier stands at the scene of a suicide car bomb near the port in Mogadishu, Somalia Saturday, July 4, 2020. Explosions rocked two of Somalia's largest cities on Saturday as officials said a suicide car bomber detonated near the port in Mogadishu and a land mine was detonated by remote control as people were dining in a restaurant on the outskirts of Baidoa. (Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo)





Senegalese students learn about health and the coronavirus during an English lesson as they returned to classes on the first day back after more than three months away, at the Sacre Coeur college in Dakar, Senegal Thursday, June 25, 2020. (Photo by Sylvain Cherkaoui/AP Photo)





A ceremonial torch is lit to mark the reopening of the stadium in Mogadishu, Somalia Tuesday, June 30, 2020. At least three mortar blasts struck the Mogadishu Stadium Tuesday evening, just hours after it was reopened by Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, who had left before the shells hit, following years of instability. (Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo)





A herdsman from the Turkana tribe is seen near the town of Lodwar, Turkana county, Kenya, July 2, 2020. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)





A woman from the Turkana tribe waits at a shop at the village of Lorengippi near the town of Lodwar, Turkana county, Kenya, July 3, 2020. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)





An Ivory Coast election commission officials register voters on July 4, 2020, in Abidjan, on the eve of the closing of registrations on the electoral list ahead of the country's presidential election held on October 31. (Photo by Issouf Sanogo/AFP Photo)





A commuter train arrives at a makeshift station, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Kibera slums, in Nairobi, Kenya on July 6, 2020. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





A health worker is seen with an infra-red laser thermometer at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport during preparation ahead of the reopening of the airport for domestic flight operations that is scheduled for July 8, 2020 in Abuja, Nigeria on July 6, 2020. (Photo by Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)





A health worker carries disinfectant equipment outside a hospital during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Harare, Zimbabwe, July 6, 2020. (Photo by Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)





A man walks by a mural dedicated to health workers in the Sudanese capital's twin city of Omdurman on July 8, 2020, as the country eases lockdown measures following three months of tight restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Ashraf Shazly/AFP Photo)





Somali police officers tow their car from the scene of a roadside explosion in Hodan district of Mogadishu, Somalia on July 8, 2020. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)





Members of the public wait to be tested for the coronavirus in Bujumbura, Burundi Monday, July 6, 2020. Burundi launched a campaign of mass screening for COVID-19 on Monday in the country's largest city Bujumbura, indicating that the new president Evariste Ndayishimiye is implementing policies to combat the spread of the disease. (Photo by Berthier Mugiraneza/AP Photo)





A man runs cables prior to the reopening of the soccer stadium in Mogadishu, Somalia Tuesday, June 30, 2020. At least three mortar blasts struck the Mogadishu Stadium Tuesday evening, just hours after it was reopened by Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, who had left before the shells hit, following years of instability. (Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo)





Students from the Antsi Military Academy (school for officers of the Malagasy army) are positioned in downtown Antananarivo, Madagascar on June 26, 2020 before the Malagasy military troops parade in front of the President of the Republic for the traditional Malagasy Independence Day, which was exceptionally organised on the Avenue de l'Indépendance in the city centre but without being open to the public. (Photo by Rijasolo/AFP Photo)





A student of the Leap of Dance Academy, Olamide Olawale, performs a dance routine in Okelola street in Ajangbadi, Lagos, on July 3, 2020. The Leap of Dance Academy is a ballet school in a poor district of sprawling megacity of Lagos that aims to bring classical dance to underprivileged children in Africa's most populous nation. (Photo by Benson Ibeabuchi/AFP Photo)





The coffin, covered with he Burundi national flag, of late Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza, who died at the age of 55, is presented on a ceremonial vehicle during the national funeral at the Ingoma stadium in Gitega, Burundi, on June 26, 2020. (Photo by Tchandrou Nitanga/AFP Photo)