A young woman sits in front of her shelter after heavy rainfall and flooding destroyed her crops, in Lukurunyang in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area, South Sudan, Monday, September 7, 2020. Flooding has affected well over a million people across East Africa, another calamity threatening food security on top of a historic locust outbreak and the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Tetiana Gaviuk/Medecins Sans Frontieres via AP Photo)





Flooding is seen from the air in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area in South Sudan, Friday, September 4, 2020. (Photo by Tetiana Gaviuk/Medecins Sans Frontieres via AP Photo)





People hold a banner showing Col. Assimi Goita, leader of the junta which is now running Mali and calls itself the National Committee for the Salvation of the People, outside a conference in Bamako, Mali, Thursday, September 10, 2020. Leaders of Mali's military junta who deposed the West African country's president last month are meeting with political parties and civil society groups to outline a transition to a civilian government and, ultimately, elections. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A man arrested for protesting over human rights abuses makes a court appearance in leg irons at the magistrates courts in Harare, Monday, September 14, 2020. Human rights defenders say it appears the government is using restrictions imposed to combat COVID-19 to suppress political criticism. Opposition officials, human rights groups and some analysts accuse Mnangagwa of abusing the rights of critics, using tactics as harsh as his predecessor, the late Robert Mugabe. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





A girl greets Uruguayan peacekeepers from MONUSCO (The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo) who patrol in Fataki on National Route 27 in Ituri province, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo on September 14, 2020. Along this road, villages and vehicles have been targeted by recurring armed attacks by militiamen. Since the end of 2017, the conflict in Ituri has resulted in several hundred deaths and more than one and a half million displaced persons. Most of the massacres are attributed to armed militias belonging to the Lendu community and claiming to defend themselves against the Congolese army and the Hema community. (Photo by Alexis Huguet/AFP Photo)





A surfer catches a wave at Sunset, a surfing spot between Hout Bay and Kommetjie that produces some of South Africa's biggest waves, in Cape Town on September 19, 2020. This spot needs a variety of conditions to come together, like wind, swell size, wave period and direction, that often follows storms, to produce huge waves on this reef, which attracts and challenges the surfers. (Photo by Rodger Bosch/AFP Photo)





People hold a banner showing Col. Assimi Goita, leader of the junta which is now running Mali and calls itself the National Committee for the Salvation of the People, as they demonstrate to show support for the junta in the capital Bamako, Mali, Tuesday, September 8, 2020. Placard at left in French reads “An army-led transition”. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Police officers look on as striking funeral workers carry a coffin during a protest over changes to a host of procedures and regulations, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, outside Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital, in Soweto, South Africa, September 16, 2020. (Photo by Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)





A policeman handcuffs Paul Rusesabagina, right, whose story inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda”, before leading him out of the Kicukiro Primary Court in the capital Kigali, Rwanda Monday, September 14, 2020. A Rwandan court on Monday charged Paul Rusesabagina with terrorism, complicity in murder, and forming an armed rebel group, while Rusesabagina declined to respond to all 13 charges, saying some did not qualify as criminal offenses and saying that he denied the accusations when he was questioned by Rwandan investigators. (Photo by Muhizi Olivier/AP Photo)





Former president Henri Konan Bedie, 86, gestures to supporters at a party rally to celebrate his presidential candidacy for the opposition PDCI-RDA party and as a show of strength ahead of next months presidential election, in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast Saturday, September 12, 2020. Bedie, who led the country from 1993-1999, and Pascal Affi N'Guessan of the Ivorian Popular Front party, are the two opposition leaders who pose the strongest threat to incumbent President Alassane Ouattara. (Photo by Diomande Ble Blonde/AP Photo)





Rescuers work in Kamituga, South Kivu, on September 12, 2020, at the entrance of one of the mines where dozens of Congolese artisanal miners are feared to be killed after heavy rain filled the mine tunnels. - About 50 people are feared dead after an artisanal gold mine collapsed on September 11 in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo following torrential rain, a regional governor said on September 12. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A man and a child prepare to navigate through a flooded road in the town of Salmaniya, about 25 miles (35 km) southwest of the capital, Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, September 17, 2020. (Photo by Marwan Ali/AP Photo)





A hair stylist wearing a face mask to protect against coronavirus uses a thermometer to take the temperature of a customer inside a salon in Lagos, Nigeria, Friday September 18, 2020. Nigeria officials recently reopened worship centres and international flights following months of closure to curb the spread of coronavirus. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





Supporters of the party Rally of Houphouetists for Democracy and Peace (Rassemblement des Houphouetistes pour developpemnt et la paix – RHDP) of Ivory Coast's president Alassane Ouattara dance and chant slogans as they take part in a meeting origanized by youth association of RHDP in Yopougon, in the suburbs of Abidjan, on September 19, 2020 ahead of October 31, presidential election. (Photo by Issouf Sanogo/AFP Photo)





Residents queue to cast their vote during the Edo State governorship election in Benin, in the south West area of Edo State, on September 19, 2020. As voters gathered to polls in Edo State, the incumbent governor Godwin Obaseki of the People Democratic Party (PDP) for a second term, amidst of COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Olukayode Jaiyeola/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





A woman rescue remains of her belongings from her apartment following rain fall at Oyebanjo Solarin Street in Ketu, Lagos which washed away a two yet to be identified children, after a heavy rainfall on Saturday in Lagos, on September 13, 2020. (Photo by Olukayode Jaiyeola/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





Students wearing mask arrive at school as schools are reopened with health protocols after closure due to coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic in Sidi Husain of Tunis, Tunisia on September 15, 2020. (Photo by Yassine Gaidi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Sudanese chant slogans outside a court during a new trial against ousted President Omar al-Bashir and some of his former allies over the 1989 military coup that brought the autocrat to power in 1989, outside a courthouse in Khartoum, Sudan on September 15, 2020. (Photo by Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters)





Artists from all walks of life gather as they protest against the ongoing lockdown due to the Covid-19 Coronavirus in Pretoria, South Africa, 16 September 2020. South Africa is in its 173 day of lockdown. One of the hardest hit sectors of the economy has been the arts. (Photo by Kim Ludbrook/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Customers have their nails done near the Baragwanath taxi rank in Soweto, South Africa, Wednesday September 16, 2020. South African president Cyril Ramaphosa is scheduled to address the nation later in the day, as case numbers and death from Covid-19 hit the lowest in months. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)