Ethiopians throw grass into a pool of water, as a symbol of riches after the rainy season and to thank the land and water for everything they have provided, as they celebrate the annual Irrecha thanksgiving festival in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Saturday, October 5, 2019. The annual Irrecha festival of Ethiopia's largest ethnic group, the Oromo, attracted millions from across Ethiopia and was held in the capital for the first time after 150 years on Saturday. (Photo by Mulugeta Ayene/AP Photo)





A fisherman walks past wooden fishing boats stacked on the shore in Nouakchott, Mauritania on August 11, 2019. Fishing is one of the most important sources of income in Mauritania, a West African country with 754 kilometers of coastline to the Atlantic Ocean. Hundreds of fishermen who come to the shores of the capital Nouakchott early with the daylights go for fishing in the ocean with their colorful boats. Fishermen struggle until the dusk to make a living out of fishing by selling them at a market by the ocean. (Photo by Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A farmer carries a hose to water his field, where the Catholic Organisation CARITAS provides counselling to farmers affected by the recent cyclones in Tica, near Beira on August 21, 2019. Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Mozambique, Madagascar and Mauritius in a pastoral visit from September 4th to September 10th. (Photo by Marco Longari/AFP Photo)





Relatives mourn their dead kin outside the Morogoro referral hospital, after a fuel tanker exploded killing a crowd of people collecting liquid from puddles in jerry cans in Morogoro, eastern Tanzania on August 11, 2019. (Photo by Emmanuel Herman/Reuters)





A French soldier of the 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment searches a man during an area control operation in the Gourma region during Operation Barkhane in Ndaki, Mali, July 27, 2019. (Photo by Benoit Tessier/Reuters)





People gather outside a cordoned-off area at the site of a collapsed building in Bamako, Mali on September 2, 2019. (Photo by Annie Risemberg/Reuters)





A sheikh tries to rouse a woman by pouring water on her neck in Zanzibar City, Tanzania, February 17, 2019. The woman believes she is possessed by supernatural spirits like djinns. (Photo by Nicky Woo/Reuters)





A giraffe walks near the elevated railway line that allows movement of animals below the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line linking Nairobi and Naivasha inside the Nairobi national park in Nairobi, Kenya on October 16, 2019. (Photo by Njeri Mwangi/Reuters)





Somali children wade through flood waters after heavy rain in Mogadishu, Somalia on October 21, 2019. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)





Protesters break through a police cordon to gain entry where the World Economic Forum on Africa is being held in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, September 4, 2019. The women are demanding that the government crack down on gender-based violence, following a week of brutal murders of young South African women that has shaken the nation. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A woman carries a fish on her head after cleaning and gutting it in a small fishing village on October 8, 2019 in Porto Mosquito, Cape Verde. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Members of the Turkana community work unblocking an irrigation canal to provide water to their sorghum crops in an arid dry area in Nanyee, near Lodwar, Turkana County, Kenya, on October 1, 2019. Turkana is a vast, dry area in the north-west of Kenya that is on the frontline of climate change. With regular searing temperatures the Turkana people are suffering from recurring and prolonged droughts. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





Protesters burn barricades and tires in Conakry street during a demonstration on October 14, 2019 in Guinea. At least one teenager was killed Monday in Conakry, according to a doctor, in clashes in several neighborhoods between security forces massively deployed and thousands of opponents to a third term of the current president Alpha. (Photo by Cellou Binani/AFP Photo)





Members of Sengwer community living in Embobut forest, Elgeyo Marakwet (403km from Nairobi) gather to march to the office of the President Uhuru Kenyatta, as they present a petition seeking to stop eviction from the forest they have called their home for centuries, and be recognised as a distinct tribe in Nairobi on October 7, 2019. (Photo by Simon Maina/AFP Photo)





A child of the “Blessoue Djehou generation” in initiation dances on August 22, 2019 in a street of Adjame village in Abidjan during the “Fatchue” ceremony. The “Fatchue” ceremony mark the passage of individuals from one generation to the next with dances and rituals. The “Blessoue Djehou” generation is mature in age and is the next generation to participate in the management of village affairs. (Photo by Sia Kambou/AFP Photo)





Enumerator Janet Ngusilo, center, records details of an Ogiek family participating in the census inside a home in Mau Forest of Narok County, Kenya on August 28, 2019. (Photo by Luis Tato/The Washington Post)





A group of men can be seen laying on the ground after being arrested by members of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police in Johannesburg Katlehong Township, during a new wave of anti-foreigner violence on September 5, 2019. Tensions eased between twin African powerhouses South Africa and Nigeria on September 5, after Pretoria temporarily closed its diplomatic missions in the rival state following a wave of attacks on foreign-owned stores there that claimed 10 lives. (Photo by Guillem Sartorio/AFP Photo)





A burned car is seen in Johannesburg suburb of Malvern, in Johannesburg, on September 4, 2019, after South Africa's financial capital was hit by a new wave of anti-foreigner violence. (Photo by Michele Spatari/AFP Photo)





Participants cross the finish line as they take part in the annual Maralal Camel Derby in Maralal town, Samburu county, northern Kenya Saturday, August 31, 2019. The annual camel race, now in its 30th year, attracts both local and international competitors to the dusty desert town. (Photo by AP Photo/SIPA Press/Stringer)