People gather to watch the count of ballots at a polling station after the vote for the presidential and parliamentary election in Jamestown neighborhood, in Accra on December 7, 2020. More than 17 million people are eligible to vote in presidential and parliamentary elections in Ghana with the race for the top job expected to be a close-run fight between incumbent Nana Akufo-Addo and longtime opponent John Mahama. (Photo by Cristina Aldehuela/AFP Photo)





World Food Program (WFP) stores supplies in tents at Village 8, the transit center near the Lugdi border crossing, eastern Sudan, Tuesday, December 8, 2020..Government officials are transferring all refugees from Village 8, temporarily hosting refugees to Umm Rakboua, the only official refugee camp. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)





A Tigray refugee mother carries her child as she waits her turn for treatment at a clinic run by MSF (Doctors Without Borders) in Village 8, the transit centre near the Lugdi border crossing, eastern Sudan, Tuesday, December 8, 2020. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)





A person has a finger inked at a polling station during Ghana's presidential and parliamentary elections in Kyebi, Ghana on December 7, 2020. (Photo by Francis Kokoroko/Reuters)





Volunteers wait to be checked at a vaccine trial facility set at Soweto's Chris Sani Baragwanath Hospital outside Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday November 30, 2020. Over 2000 South African volunteers are on AstraZeneca's experimental coronavirus vaccine trial. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A grave digger prepares graves at the Motherwell Cemetery in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Friday, Dec. 4, 2020. Health Minister Zweli Mkhize announced on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 that the country is now experiencing a Covid-19 pandemic second wave. (Photo by Theo Jeftha/AP Photo)





A CIT guard carries his gun handgun while bringing a bag containing cash inside an armoured vehicle during a money collection in Johannesburg's CBD, on December 8, 2020. As the Christmas festive season approaches, cash-in-transit (CIT) companies are gearing up as they continue to be target of crime, with about 3000 money vans traveling daily nationwide. Despite the COVID-19 lockdown, there have been 260 cash-in-transit heist incidents in South Africa this year, with 19 CIT crew members killed. Cash-in-transit heists in the country are often military-style planned operations with criminals recurring to bomb making and assault rifles attacks. (Photo by Michele Spatari/AFP Photo)





Supporters of Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo gather for the final electoral campaign ahead of the presidential and parliamentary elections, in Accra, Ghana on December 5, 2020. (Photo by Francis Kokoroko/Reuters)





Asiwa, a Rothschild's (Nubian) giraffe, which was stranded by flooding on Longicharo Island, is moved on Lake Baringo, Kenya on December 2, 2020. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Save Giraffes Now/Handout via Reuters)





A woman wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of coronavirus walks past a bivouac where clinical trials for covid-19 vaccines are conducted, in Rabat, Morocco, Monday, December 7, 2020. (Photo by Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP Photo)





A fisherman balances a bucket of fishes on his shoulder on December 9, 2020 outside on the coast of the Paquitequete district of Pemba where internal displaced people are fleeing from unrest in the norther part of the Cabo Delgado area in Mozambique. (Photo by Alfredo Zuniga/AFP Photo)





Sudanese local community members carry to deliver sacks of sorghum for Ethiopian refugees who fled the Ethiopia's Tigray conflict in a warehouse erected by the World Food Programme (WFP) at Um Raquba refugee camp in Gedaref, eastern Sudan, on December 6, 2020. More than 45,000 people have escaped from northern Ethiopia since November 4, after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered military operations against leaders of Tigray's ruling party in response to its alleged attacks on federal army camps. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)





People gather during a protest on the grounds that health and social conditions have deteriorated, in Jendouba, Tunisia on December 05, 2020. Demonstrators gathered in front of the governor's building after the death of a young doctor in a state hospital in the city of Jendouba. (Photo by Yassine Gaidi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Somali boys enjoy the water at Hamarweyne beach in Mogadishu, Somalia on December 5, 2020. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)





An electoral poster for the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism candidate Mohamed Bazoum is seen in Niamey on December 6, 2020 plastered on the side of a bus. (Photo by Boureima Hama/AFP Photo)





Supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate John Dramani Mahama gather outside the Electoral Commission's Head Office in Accra, Ghana, on December 9, 2020 ahead of the declaration of the official results of the presidential vote. The supporters of the two rivals in the presidential election in Ghana began to gather on Wednesday, awaiting the results of the poll marked by the death of five people in “isolated” incidents in this country set up as a democratic model in West Africa . (Photo by Nipah Dennis/AFP)





Tigrinyan refugees who fled Ethiopia's conflict, help each other fill their gallons with water, in Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Thursday, December 10, 2020. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)





A money changer holds the Nigeria's Naira and a 100 US dollar note, along a street in Sapon district in Abeokuta, Nigeria, 11 December 2020. In the last weeks, the Nigerian currency has witnessed a monumental devaluation to the US dollars, especially in the black market and the prices of goods in the local market are astronomically high. (Photo by Akintunde Akinleye/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Tigray refugee children sing and dance inside a tent run by UNICEF for children's activities, in Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Thursday, December 10, 2020. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)





A Tigray refugee child sits on a vehicle outside his temporary shelter, in Village 8, the transit center near the Lugdi border crossing, eastern Sudan, Tuesday, December 8, 2020. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)