People relax on a boat attached to a floating restaurant and bar, on Lake Victoria near the Luzira area of Kampala, Uganda Sunday, February 19, 2023. Flowering plants rise from the water into the wooden hull of James Kateeba's boat, used as a floating restaurant and bar that can be unmoored to drift for pleasure, but the greenery emerges from an innovative recycling project which uses thousands of dirt-encrusted plastic bottles to anchor the boat. (Photo by Hajarah Nalwadda/AP Photo)





A Department of State Services (DSS) official stands guard a polling station in Amatutu on February 25, 2023, during Nigeria's presidential and general election. (Photo by Patrick Meinhardt/AFP Photo)





A man crosses a usually bustling avenue which had emptied as people anxiously wait for the results of the presidential elections, in Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday, February 28, 2023. Tensions rose Monday during the counting of Nigeria's hotly contested presidential election when representatives from the parties of the two main opposition candidates walked out in anger from the center where state-by-state results were being announced. (Photo by Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP Photo)





Young men play soccer at Ribadu Square two days after Nigeria's presidential election as the country waits for its results, in Yola, Nigeria on February 27, 2023. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)





A worker sits as illegally harvested sandalwood confiscated by Kenya's multiagency security teams is set ablaze to curb the trade in their essential oil, which is extracted to manufacture medicines and cosmetics at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) offices along Kiambu road in Nairobi, Kenya on February 28, 2023. (Photo by Monicah Mwangi/Reuters)





A woman dances in celebration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu's victory in an election, that has been disputed by opposition parties, in Lagos, Nigeria on March 1, 2023. (Photo by James Oatway/Reuters)





Supporters of the Nigerian presidential candidate Bola Tinubu, of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), celebrate in Abuja on March 1, 2023 at his campaign headquarters. - Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu has won the most votes in Nigeria's highly disputed weekend election, according to final results on Wednesday, almost certainly securing him the presidency of Africa's most populous democracy. The Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, must still confirm whether Tinubu secured 25 percent of votes in two-thirds of Nigeria's 36 states and capital, a threshold he must hit to be confirmed president. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon/AFP Photo)





Soldiers patrol on the street in Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Election officials declared ruling party candidate Tinubu the winner of Nigeria's presidential election, with the two leading opposition candidates already demanding a re-vote in Africa's most populous nation. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





Demonstrating students and university security clash as they attempt to gain entry to the Great Hall at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) in Johannesburg on March 2, 2023. The students were protesting what they allege is a lack of adequate support from the university for unhoused students and those with outstanding fees. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Sub-Saharan African migrants camp outside the headquarters of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Tunis, on March 2, 2023. After President Kais Saied ordered “urgent measures” against irregular sub-Saharan migrants, hundreds of West Africans, evicted in recent days by landlords fearing heavy fines for hosting undocumented migrants, have flocked to their embassies in Tunis to seek repatriation. (Photo by Fethi Belaid/AFP Photo)





Kenyan senator Gloria Orwoba distributes free sanitary pads to girls at Mukuru Community Center Primary school, while explaining to them the need to openly discuss menstruation to end period shaming, in the Mukuru neighborhood on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. Orwoba has said that she attended parliament last month while wearing a white pantsuit stained by her menstruation in order to combat the stigma surrounding women's monthly periods. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)





Brass band members perform as they enter before the launch of the extension of the world’s first malaria vaccine (RTS, S) pilot program for children at risk of malaria illness and death within Kenya’s lake-endemic region at Kimogoi Dispensary in Gisambai on March 7, 2023. The pilot program coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO) has provided malaria vaccines in three countries, Ghana, Malawi and Kenya, since 2019. More than 1.2 million children under five years old have received at least one dose of the four-dose vaccine in Africa. According to the WHO, the vaccine has been estimated to save one child's life for every 200 children vaccinated. Around 90 percent of the world's malaria cases are recorded in Africa, where 260,000 children die from the disease each year. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)





Police officers stand guard in front of the wreckage of a bus that was crushed by a train in Ikeja Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday March. 9, 2023. Three people were killed and more than 80 injured after a passenger bus was crushed by a moving train in Nigeria's commercial hub of Lagos, the emergency response agency said on Thursday. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





Victims of a train crash receive treatment outside the emergency unit of the Lagos general hospital in Ikeja Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday March 9, 2023. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





A member of the South African public sector union, National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) holds a placard outside the Home Affairs office during a protest over wage disputes and other work issues in Cape Town, South Africa, March 13, 2023. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)





Supporters of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko gather during a protest to demand the release of alleged political prisoners and to support its leader, Ousmane Sonko, ahead of a court appearance on Thursday on libel charges, in Dakar, Senegal on March 14, 2023. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





Opposition supporters gather ahead for a meeting two days before the trial of oopposition leader Ousmane Sonko in Dakar on March 14, 2023. Thousands of supporters of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko rallied in Dakar on Tuesday, the first of several days of protests as the country prepares for elections in less than a year. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Pallbearers carry a coffin at the burial ceremony for some of the people who lost their lives following heavy rains caused by Cyclone Freddy in Blantyre, southern Malawi, Wednesday, March 15, 2023. After barreling through Mozambique and Malawi since late last week and killing hundreds and displacing thousands more, the cyclone is set to move away from land bringing some relief to regions who have been ravaged by torrential rain and powerful winds. (Photo by Thoko Chikondi/AP Photo)





People walk down a flooded street following heavy rains caused by tropical Cyclone Freddy in Blantyre, southern Malawi, Wednesday, March 15, 2023. (Photo by Thoko Chikondi/AP Photo)





A woman is overcome by grief as she attends the burial ceremony of some of the people who lost their lives following heavy rains caused by Cyclone Freddy, in Blantyre, southern Malawi, Wednesday, March 15, 2023. (Photo by Thoko Chikondi/AP Photo)