Algerian women chant slogans during an anti-government protest in the capital Algiers on March 8, 2021. Thousands of people demonstrated in Algiers and other cities across the country, confirming the remobilisation of the Hirak protest movement again in the streets since the second anniversary of the uprising on February 22. (Photo by Ryad Kramdi/AFP Photo)





An election poster featuring President Denis Sassou N'Guesso stands over a market in central Brazzaville, Congo, Sunday March 7, 2021. Elections on Sunday March 21 will see President Denis Sassou N'Guesso poised to extend his tenure as one of Africa's longest serving leaders, 36 years, amid opposition complaints of interference with their campaigns. (Photo by Lebon Chansard Ziavoula/AP Photo)





A Tigrayan refugee who fled the conflict in the Ethiopia's Tigray inside his shelter at Hamdeyat Transition Center near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, eastern Sudan, March 16, 2021. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)





Members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) fire rubber bullets at students during a protest in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, on March 10, 2021. A passerby was shot dead on March 10, 2021 after South African police moved to disperse students protesting against refusal by a top Johannesburg-based university to register those in arrears with tuition fees, local media and the university said. Clashes erupted when police used rubber bullets to break up a group of students who were blocking roads with rubble and disrupting traffic in downtown Johannesburg around the Wits campus precinct. (Photo by Michele Spatari/AFP Photo)





Police pass the lifeless body of a man allegedly shot dead during clashes with protesting students from the University of the Witwatersrand and police in Johannesburg, Wednesday, March 10, 2021. At least one person has died and two students have been injured in clashes between South African university students and police over tuition fees at the University. Protests erupted this week after thousands of students were denied registration for the 2021 academic year because they owed tuition fees from last year. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A man reads a copy of the Daily Nation morning newspaper reporting the death of neighboring Tanzania's President John Magufuli on a street in Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, March 18, 2021. Magufuli, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic whose populist rule often cast his country in a harsh international spotlight, died Wednesday aged 61 of heart failure, it was announced by Vice President Samia Suluhu. Headline in Swahili reads “Goodbye Magufuli”. (Photo by Khalil Senosi/AP Photo)





Women human rights defenders from 26 community based organisations march to commemorate International Women's Day in Kibera, Nairobi, on March 8, 2021. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)





Pit latrines at a school in Ghoboshiyane village, South Africa, Wednesday, March 17, 2021. A school headmaster in South Africa has been arrested and charged with child abuse after lowering an 11-year-old student into a pit latrine to search for the official’s cellphone. According to local news reports, the headmaster of Luthuthu Junior Secondary School in the Eastern Cape province has been released on bail. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Members of the Salvation Army Mabvuku Corps wearing face masks and maintaining social distance on the first church service in 2021 in Harare, Zimbabwe, 07 March 2021. Covid-19 lockdown induced measures have been relaxed and churches are now allowed to open with 50 members allowed at any service with Covid-19 measures being followed. (Photo by Aaron Ufumeli/EPA/EFE)





An unidentified woman carries her belongings on her head after crossing the Mbomou river back into Bangassou, Central African Republic, from Ndu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she had taken refuge, Sunday February 14, 2021. An estimated 240,000 people have been displaced in the country since mid-December, according to U.N. relief workers, when rebels calling themselves the Coalition of Patriots for Change launched attacks, causing a humanitarian crisis in the already unstable nation. (Photo by Adrienne Surprenant/AP Photo)





Camels take off during a race at a track near the Sudanese village of al-Ikhlas, in the west of the city of Omdurman, Sudan on March 19, 2021. The race is organised by traditionally camel-rearing tribal families from the village as a way to preserve and celebrate their heritage. (Photo by Abdulmonam Eassa/AFP Photo)





A monkeys that lives freely on the campus of the Khartoum university in the Sudanese capital, is pictured on March 9, 2021. Hundreds of monkeys that mainly live on the rooftops of the campus, also hop around freely among students who often give them treats. .The university, stablished in 1956 when the country gained independence, is the largest and oldest university in Sudan. (Photo by Abdulmonam Eassa/AFP Photo)





Men from the Kenyan Maasai tribe perform a traditional jumping-ritual among fellow members of a common age-set as they observe a rite of passage to mark the transition of an age-set to cultural junior elder from Moran (Maasai for warrior age-set) at a manyatta or traditional homestead built specifically for the ceremony near Lemek town within the Masai-Mara National Reserve ecosystem in Narok county February 27, 2021. (Photo by Tony Karumba/AFP Photo)





People displaced by the recent conflict live in crowded conditions at a makeshift camp for the displaced in a derelict building of the Shire campus of Axum University, in Shire, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Tuesday, February 23, 2021. For months, one great unknown in Ethiopia's Tigray conflict has been the fate of hundreds of thousands of people in vast rural areas beyond the reach of outside aid, but now thousands who have been hiding there have begun arriving in a community that can barely support them. (Photo by International Rescue Committee via AP Photo)





Supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, who was arrested following sexual assault accusations, clash with security forces in Dakar, Senegal on March 5, 2021. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





Red Cross members carry a man who fainted as supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, who was arrested following sexual assault accusations, clash with security forces after Sonko's release on bail in Dakar, Senegal on March 8, 2021. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





Women, dressed in traditional clothes, gather during a celebration to mark International Women's Day, at the village of Sahel, in the mostly Berber Kabylie region in the mountains east of Algiers, Algeria on March 6, 2021. (Photo by Abdelaziz Boumzar/Reuters)





Surgeon and doctor-turned-refugee, Dr. Tewodros Tefera, checks a Tigrayan refugee woman inside the Sudanese Red Crescent (SRC) Clinic, at Hamdeyat Transition Center near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, eastern Sudan, March 17, 2021. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)





A young boy holds grocery bags as he walks away from a burnt down and looted Auchan supermarket in the up-market area of Almadies in Dakar on March 6, 2021 as protests have been ongoing for three days in Senegal after opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was arrested following rape charges. The Senegal government vowed on March 5, 2021 to use “all means necessary” to return order after police fired tear gas in clashes with supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko as the Interior Minister said four people had died. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Supporters of opposition leader and former presidential candidate Ousmane Sonko demonstrate in Dakar, Senegal, Monday, March 8, 2021. Senegalese authorities have freed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko while he awaits trial on charges of rape and making death threats. The case already has sparked deadly protests threatening to erode Senegal's reputation as one of West Africa’s most stable democracies. (Photo by Sylvain Cherkaoui/AP Photo)