Manel Mahdouani, a Tunisian tattoo artist who is reviving traditional Berber designs, attends to a customer, in Tunis, Tunisia on September 2, 2022. (Photo by Jihed Abidellaoui/Reuters)





Manel Mahdouani, a Tunisian tattoo artist who is reviving traditional Berber designs, attends to a customer in Tunis, Tunisia on September 2, 2022. (Photo by Jihed Abidellaoui/Reuters)





Dr Dafallah al-Haj Ali Mustafa, 51, founder and general director of the Sudanese Traditional Music Centre and assistant professor of music and drama, plays a traditional “Wazza” instrument at the centre in the Sudanese capital's twin city of Omdurman on September 10, 2022. Near the lush fields of his village in Sudan's southern Blue Nile state, locals have crafted a traditional horn-like instrument used for generations to usher in the harvest season. Across the Blue Nile State communities, the instruments are used to celebrate the harvest season, which typically begins in November after the wet season. (Photo by Ashraf Shazly/AFP Photo)





Somalis who have been displaced settle at a camp on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia Tuesday, September 19, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A Somali woman and child wait to be given a spot to settle at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Tuesday, September 20, 2022. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A Somali woman and children carry water at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Tuesday, September 20, 2022. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A Somali woman fills a container with water at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Tuesday, September 20, 2022. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A Somali family that arrived waits to be given a spot to settle at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Tuesday, September 20, 2022. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





South Africa's Lood de Jager, top, jumps for the ball during a line-out for the Rugby Championship test between South Africa and Argentina at Kings Park Stadium in Durban, South Africa, Saturday, September 24, 2022. (Photo by Themba Hadebe/AP Photo)





A bull elephant roams in Kimana sanctuary Kajiado south sub county on September 25, 2022. A severe drought has hit the Greater Amboseli ecosystem where some areas only received around 15% of the expected rainfall earlier this year. Many animals have already died of starvation and many more are at risk. (Photo by Fredrik Lerneryd/AFP Photo)





Ethiopian Orthodox Christians beat drums and sing to celebrate the eve of the holiday of Meskel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Monday, September 26, 2022. The festival commemorates the unearthing of the “True Holy Cross” of Jesus Christ by the Roman Empress Helena in the fourth century. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Boys playing on old mattresses in Hanover Park, an area affected by ongoing gang violence in Cape Town, South Africa on September 28, 2022. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)





Young men chant slogans against the power of Lieutenant-Colonel Damiba, against France and pro-Russia, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Friday September 30, 2022. Residents say gunfire rang out early in the morning and the state broadcaster has gone off the air, fueling fears that another coup is underway. The developments Friday come just after coup leader-turned-president, Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba, returned from a trip to the U.N. General Assembly. (Photo by Sophie Garcia/AP Photo)





Workers cheers as supporters of Nigeria Labour Party's Presidential Candidate Peter Obi march past their worksite during a rally in Lagos, Nigeria, Saturday October 1, 2022. Presidential candidates in Nigeria's forthcoming election signed on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. an accord committing to a peaceful campaign for the West African nation's 2023 presidential election. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





Soldiers loyal to Capt. Ibrahim Traore are cheered in the streets of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Sunday, October 2, 2022. Burkina Faso's new junta leadership is calling for calm after the French Embassy and other buildings were attacked. (Photo by Kilaye Bationo/AP Photo)





Burkina Faso's new military leader Ibrahim Traore is escorted by soldiers while he stands in an armoured vehicle in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on October 2, 2022. (Photo by Vincent Bado/Reuters)





Protesters demonstrate agaisnt France and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) whose representatives are expected today in Ouagadougou on October 4, 2022. Several dozen protestors waving Russian flags rallied in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou on Tuesday as West African envoys arrived on a fact-finding mission following the country's second coup in less than nine months. (Photo by Issouf Sanogo/AFP Photo)





People stranded due to floods following several days of downpours In Kogi Nigeria, Thursday, October 6, 2022. Thousands of travelers remained stranded in Nigeria's northcentral Kogi state after major connecting roads to other parts of the West African nation were submerged in floods, locals and authorities said Thursday. (Photo by Fatai Campbell/AP Photo)





Twins Oladapo Taiwo, left, and Oladapo Kehinde, 21, pose for photographs holding relative's twins during the annual twins festival in Igbo-Ora South west Nigeria, Saturday, October 8, 2022. The town holds the annual festival to celebrate the high number of twins and multiple births. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





A bodybuilder applies tan on another participant during the Mr and Mrs East Africa Natural Body Building Contest at Rupaz Gym in Eldoret, western Kenya, on October 8, 2022. 168 bodybuilders from Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenia participate in this competition in Eldoret, a city known as “The City of Champions” for producing some of the best long distance runners in the world, that has not hosted a bodybuilding event since 2015. (Photo by Patrick Meinhardt/AFP Photo)