Ethiopian refugee children who fled the Ethiopia's Tigray conflict wait in a line for a food distribution by Muslim Aid at the Um Raquba refugee camp in Sudan's eastern Gedaref state on December 12, 2020. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)





Primary students gather in line before they enter their classrooms at Kombayendeh village in Lei chiefdom, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Friday, November 27, 2020. Early marriages were happening so often in this part of Sierra Leone that traditional leaders in the Lei chiefdom instituted a new bylaw imposing a 500,000 ($50) fine on anyone having s*x with a minor, even if the man is married to the child. Yet local leaders in Kombayendeh can't recall a single fine being issued. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)





An Ethiopian refugee who fled Tigray region, stands within the Fashaga camp on the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in Kassala state, Sudan on December 13, 2020. (Photo by Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters)





An Ethiopian pregnant refugee woman who fled Tigray region, sits inside a courtesy bus at the Fashaga camp as she is transferred to Um-Rakoba camp on the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in Kassala state, Sudan on December 13, 2020. (Photo by Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters)





Ethiopians who fled the ongoing fighting in Tigray region, pull a handcart after crossing the Setit river on the Sudan-Ethiopia border in the Hamdayet village, in eastern Kassala state, Sudan on December 15, 2020. (Photo by Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters)





Ethiopians who fled the ongoing fighting in Tigray region, use a camel near the Setit river on the Sudan-Ethiopia border in the Hamdayet village in eastern Kassala state, Sudan on December 15, 2020. (Photo by Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters)





An Ethiopian boy who fled the ongoing fighting in Tigray region, gestures in the Hamdayet village, in eastern Kassala state, Sudan on December 15, 2020. (Photo by Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters)





An Ethiopian man who fled the ongoing fighting in Tigray region holds on to jerrycans used as a floater for his goat as they cross the Setit river on the Sudan-Ethiopia border in the Hamdayet village, in eastern Kassala state, Sudan on December 15, 2020. (Photo by Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters)





An Ethiopian woman who fled the ongoing fighting in Tigray region sits in her makeshift shelter in the Hamdayet village in eastern Kassala state, Sudan on December 15, 2020. (Photo by Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters)





Ethiopian refugees who fled Tigray region, board courtesy buses at the Fashaga camp as they are transferred to Um-Rakoba camp on the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in Kassala state, Sudan on December 13, 2020. (Photo by Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters)





Bodybuilders pose on stage during the Iron Fit Bodybuilding competition in Nairobi on December 05, 2020. 130 participants from all across East Africa took part in the second edition of this competition which included categories like Bikini, Figure, Physique and Bodybuilding. (Photo by Patrick Meinhardt/AFP Photo)





Marie walks with a friend on a street in Komao village, on the outskirts of Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Sunday, November 22, 2020. A man, in his mid-20s, first caught a glimpse of Marie as she ran with her friends past his house near the village primary school. Soon after, he proposed to the fifth-grader. “I’m going to school now. I don’t want to get married and stay in the house”, she told him. But the pressures of a global pandemic on this remote corner of Sierra Leone were greater than the wishes of a schoolgirl. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)





A motorcycle taxi rides past the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Nigeria, Tuesday, December 15, 2020. Rebels from the Boko Haram extremist group claimed responsibility Tuesday for abducting hundreds of boys from a school in Nigeria's northern Katsina State last week in one of the largest such attacks in years, raising fears of a growing wave of violence in the region. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





Parents wait outside the Government Science where gunmen abducted students in Kankara, in northwestern Katsina state, Nigeria on December 15, 2020. Boko Haram on Tuesday claimed the abduction of hundreds of students, marking its first attack in northwestern Nigeria since the jihadist uprising began more than ten years ago. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon/AFP)





People travel past Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Nigeria, Tuesday, December 15, 2020. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





Two women walk past the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Nigeria, Tuesday, December 15, 2020. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





A nurse shouts during a protest organized by Nurses and Clinical Officers in Nairobi on December 14, 2020. Nurses and Clinical Officers went on strike on December 07, 2020 demanding safer working conditions after more than 60 health workers died of COVID-19 coronavirus since the beginning on the pandemic. (Photo by Patrick Meinhardt/AFP Photo)





Security forces block an avenue in front of the parliament building to stop a demonstration against normalising relations with Israel, in the Moroccan capital Rabat on December 14, 2020. Morocco announced a “resumption of relations” with Israel, shortly after US President Donald Trump tweeted that Rabat and the Jewish state had “agreed to full diplomatic relations”. (Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP Photo)





Students wearing face masks and obeying social distance rule are seen at a classroom at Algiers University in Algiers, Algeria on December 15, 2020. Algeria on Tuesday announced reopening of universities for the new academic year, after a nine-month hiatus due to coronavirus, (Photo by Mousaab Rouibi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Fashion models wait to head onto the runway during Dakar Fashion Week in Dakar, Senegal on December 12, 2020. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)