Tanzania's Vice President Samia Suluhu, left, speaks during a tour of the Tanga region of Tanzania Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Vice President Suluhu announced Wednesday, March 17, 2021 that President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic whose populist rule often cast his country in a harsh international spotlight, has died aged 61 of heart failure. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Tanzania's new president Samia Suluhu Hassan, center, is sworn in at a ceremony at State House in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Friday, March 19, 2021. Samia Suluhu Hassan made history Friday when she was sworn in as Tanzania's first female president, following the death of her predecessor John Magufuli. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Almaz, 12, braids the hair of Zinabu at a center for people displaced by the recent conflict currently housing more than 3000 including 494 children under 5 years old, located in Meseret Primary School in Mekele, the capital of the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Monday, February 22, 2021. (Photo by Zerihun Sewunet/UNICEF via AP Photo)





Children follow the proceedings at a traditional marriage ceremony in the capital Harare, Zimbabwe Saturday, March 6, 2021. Many people across Africa are rethinking big, bountiful weddings amid the economic ravages of COVID-19 and the coronavirus pandemic is forcing change in communities where family can mean a whole clan and weddings are seen as key in cementing relations between communities. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





Bridesmaids dance while attending a traditional marriage ceremony of a friend in the capital Harare, Zimbabwe Saturday, March 6, 2021. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





Brian Ngona, left, and Mitchelle Musaraure, pose for a photo after their traditional marriage ceremony in the capital Harare, Zimbabwe Saturday, March 6, 2021. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





Children watch bridesmaids as they check their phones at a traditional marriage ceremony in the capital Harare, Zimbabwe Saturday, March 6, 2021. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





An Orthodox Christian Tigrayan refugee who fled the conflict in the Ethiopia's Tigray reads prayers with his son in front of a church at Hamdeyat Transition Center near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, eastern Sudan, March 16, 2021. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)





People gather on roofs to watch as police block supporters of main opposition candidate, Ousmane Sonko, outside the Justice Palace in Dakar on March 8, 2021. Protests have been ongoing after opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was arrested following rape charges. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





A boy splashes himself with water in the Atbarah river near the village of Dukouli within the Quraysha locality, located in the Fashaqa al-Sughra agricultural region of Sudan's eastern Gedaref state on March 16, 2021. The decades-old border dispute over the Fashaqa fertile farmland region, sandwiched between the Atbarah and Setit (or Tekeze) rivers, and where Ethiopia's northern Amhara and Tigray regions meet Sudan's eastern Gedaref state, dates back decades, feeding regional rivalry and even sparking fears of broader conflict. With the zone contested, the exact area is not clear, but Fashaqa covers some 12,000 square kilometres (4,630 square miles), an area claimed by both Sudan and Ethiopia. (Photo by Ashraf Shazly/AFP Photo)





Volcano researcher Honore Ciraba takes a photograph of the lava lake on Mount Nyiragongo volcano inside the Virunga National Park, near Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on February 12, 2021. Analysts say the crater of Mount Nyiragongo in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has refilled with magma, raising the crater floor and fears of an even bigger disaster if an earthquake were to cause a fracture in the flank of the volcano. (Photo by Hereward Holland/Reuters)





An astronaut statue can be seen outside the National Research Foundation building in Pretoria CBD, 16 March 2021. (Photo by Jacques Nelles)





Workers pick purple tea leaves named TRFK 306/1, a clone by the Tea Research Foundation of Kenya, at the Gatura Greens purple tea plantation in Gatura settlement of Muranga county, Kenya on January 30, 2021. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





Workers pick purple tea leaves named TRFK 306/1, a clone by the Tea Research Foundation of Kenya, at the Gatura Greens purple tea plantation in Gatura settlement of Muranga county, Kenya on January 30, 2021. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





A worker picks purple tea leaves named TRFK 306/1, a clone by the Tea Research Foundation of Kenya, at the Gatura Greens purple tea plantation in Gatura settlement of Muranga county, Kenya on January 30, 2021. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





VisualArtist Ayanda Mabulu at the Artist In Revolution commemoration in remembverance of the late Mthokozisi Ntumba who was shot by police during a student protest in the past week in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 17 March 2021. (Photo by Nigel Sibanda)





Toure, a Gambian salt harvester, holds a basket filled with the salt collected from the crust of the bottom of the Lake Retba (Pink Lake) in Senegal on March 16, 2021. Lake Retba, divided from the Atlantic Ocean by a narrow corridor of dunes, owes its name to the pink waters caused by the Dunaliella salina algae and is known for its high salt content, up to 40% in some areas. (Photo by Marco Longari/AFP Photo)





Amabutho (Zulu regiments) form a guard of honour as they escort a hearse carrying the body of King Goodwill Zwelithini from a mortuary in Nongoma, KwaZulu Natal on March 17, 2021. King Goodwill Zwelithini died on March 12, 2021 in the eastern city of Durban, aged 72, after weeks of treatment for a diabetes-related illness.
His remains have been taken back to his birthplace, the small southeastern town of Nongoma in Kwa-Zulu Natal province, where he will be laid to rest after midnight.
The intimate ceremony, to be conducted behind closed doors at the KwaKhethomthandayo royal residence, is referred to as a “planting” rather than a burial. (Photo by Phill Magakoe/AFP Photo)





Amabutho (Zulu regiments) make their way to the mortuary to receive the body of King Goodwill Zwelithini from in Nongoma, KwaZulu Natal on March 17, 2021. (Photo by Phill Magakoe/AFP Photo)





A young Zulu maiden dances during the memorial service of King Goodwill Zwelithini at the KwaKhethomthandayo royal palace in Nongoma, South Africa, on March 18, 2021. King Goodwill Zwelithini died on March 12, 2021 in the eastern city of Durban, aged 72, after weeks of treatment for a diabetes-related illness.His remains have been taken back to his birthplace, the small southeastern town of Nongoma in Kwa-Zulu Natal province, where he will be laid to rest after midnight. (Photo by Phill Magakoe/Pool via AFP Photo)