A street vendor selling oranges at a taxi rank in Welkom, South Africa, Friday, June 23, 2023. At least 31 people were believed to have died in a gas explosion in a disused mine shaft in the city of Welkom that happened last month but was only now coming to light, authorities said Friday. (Photo by Themba Hadebe/AP Photo)





Models get made up during the ninth edition of the Liputa fashion show in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Saturday June 24, 2023. The objective of the show, involving designers, models and artists from DRC, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Senegal, Burundi, France, United States and others, is to reveal the latest trends, but also to deliver a message of peace and peaceful coexistence during a period of high tension between the DRC and Rwanda, accused by Kinshasa of supporting the M23 rebellion in the east of country. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





A model presents clothes made by Maguy Mbaka Guy from Kinshasa during the ninth edition of the Liputa fashion show in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Saturday June 24, 2023. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





Models present dresses by Central African Republic fashion designer Ketura Kimono Milca during the ninth edition of the Liputa fashion show in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Saturday June 24, 2023. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





A model presents clothes made by Maguy Mbaka Guy from Kinshasa during the ninth edition of the Liputa fashion show in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Saturday June 24, 2023. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





A model presenting dresses by Central African Republic fashion designer Ketura Kimono Milca looks on during the ninth edition of the Liputa fashion show in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Saturday June 24, 2023. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





Football players set up goal posts along Lumley beach in Freetown on June 25, 2023, the day after Sierra Leone’s general and presidential elections. Vote tallying was underway in Sierra Leone on June 25, 2023, the electoral commission said, following fiercely fought elections that were mostly calm despite significant delays in some areas. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga, of the Azimio La Umoja (Declaration of Unity) alliance, arrives at a public rally over the government finance bill, at the Kamukunji grounds in Nairobi, Kenya on June 27, 2023. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





Supporters of the President of Sierra Leone and leader of Sierra Leone People’s party (SLPP), Julius Maada Bio, celebrate his re-election, in Freetown, on June 27, 2023. Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio was re-elected with 56.17 percent to serve a second term, the head of the electoral commission said on June 27 following a process disputed by the opposition. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Men skin slaughtered sheep on the first day of the Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday in Wad Hamid, about 100 kilometres north of Sudan's capital, on June 28, 2023. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





People attend prayers on the first day of Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, at the Mogadishu Stadium in Mogadishu, Somalia on June 28, 2023. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)





Muslims prepare to slaughter a sacrificial animal in a street after the prayers marking the Eid al-Adha festival, in Adjame, Abidjan, Ivory Coast on June 28, 2023. (Photo by Luc Gnago/Reuters)





A Muslim woman shows her hands with henna tattoos a day ahead of Eid al-Adha, in Adjame, Abidjan, Ivory Coast on June 27, 2023. (Photo by Luc Gnago/Reuters)





A worshipper prepares for the prayer marking the Eid al-Adha festival, at the Grand Mosque of 220 in Adjame, Abidjan, Ivory Coast on June 28, 2023. (Photo by Luc Gnago/Reuters)





A Muslim girl smiles, as she stands in a street after the prayer marking the the Eid al-Adha festival, in Adjame, Abidjan, Ivory Coast on June 28, 2023. (Photo by Luc Gnago/Reuters)





A worshiper spends time on his own after the main prayer service had finished at The Nizamiye Mosque during Eid al-Adha celebrations in Johannesburg, South Africa, 29 June 2023. Eid al-Adha is the holiest of the two Muslims holidays celebrated each year, it marks the yearly Muslim pilgrimage (Hajj) to visit Mecca in Saudi Arabia, the holiest place in Islam. Muslims slaughter a sacrificial animal in memory of a biblical story about prophet Abraham readiness to sacrifice his own son after a command from god in a dream. After an animal has been sacrificed the meat is usually split into three parts, one for the family, one for friends and relatives, and one for the poor and needy. (Photo by Kim Ludbrook/EPA)





Women of the Egbe Jagunmolu obirin Age group wave their horsetails at the Ojude Oba festival in Ijebu, Ogun state, Nigeria on June 30, 2023. (Photo by Samuel Alabi/AFP Photo)





A man walks near a restaurant named “The Rock” at the Pingwe beach near Indian Ocean in Zanzibar, Tanzania on June 30, 2023. Zanzibar Island is a tourist location with its turquoise sea, white sands, spice gardens, natural life parks and street vendors selling fresh fruit with their traditional clothes on the streets. (Photo by Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A police officer stands to secure the scene of an accident where a lorry carrying a shipping container veered off the road and ploughed into several vehicles, at an open market and a bus stop, at the Londiani Junction along the Nakuru-Kericho highway, in Kericho county, Kenya on July 1, 2023. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Steven Lesoona and Thabang Pule, waste pickers, pull trolleys loaded with recyclable materials, as they combat unemployment in Naturena, near Johannesburg, South Africa on July 3, 2023. (Photo by Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)