A defaced campaign poster for presidential candidate Amadou Ba of the Alliance for the Republic is seen on the side of a road in Dakar, on March 19, 2024. (Photo by Marco Longari/AFP Photo)





People daubed with color powders take part in the Hindu Holi Festival celebrated as the Festival of Colors, Love, and Spring in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 24, 2024. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





A woman daubed with colour powders takes part in the Hindu Holi Festival celebrated as the Festival of Colours, Love, and Spring in Nairobi, Kenya on March 24, 2024. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





People daubed with color powders take part in the Hindu Holi Festival celebrated as the Festival of Colors, Love, and Spring in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 24, 2024. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





A voter leaves the voting booth at a polling station in Ziguinchor on March 24, 2024 during Senegal's presidential elections. The Senegalese go to the polls on March 24, 2024 to elect a new president in a totally unpredictable race after three years of turmoil and political crisis. Some 7.3 million voters are registered in the West African nation where two favourites have emerged: the ruling coalition's former prime minister Amadou Ba and anti-establishment candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye. (Photo by Muhamadou Bittaye/AFP Photo)





A Supporter of Senegalese presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye celebrates early results showing that Faye is leading initial presidential election tallies, in Dakar, Senegal on March 24, 2024. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





A man walks through a salt canyon, near Dallol, in the Danakil Depression of the Afar region, on March 24, 2024. In the heart of the Horn of Africa, the Danakil Depression is one of the hottest, most inhospitable place on earth, with temperatures topping 50 degrees Celsius. With much of its territory lying an average of 100m below sea level, this scarcity populate area of the Afar region hosts one of only a handful of volcanoes to have an active lava lake, Erta Ale, and is littered with acid ponds, geysers and a deep crater with unearthly colours called Dallol. (Photo by Michele Spatari/AFP Photo)





Nigerian students and staff who were kidnapped this month sit at the local government house after they were freed, in Kaduna, Nigeria on March 25, 2024. (Photo by Garba Muhammad/Reuters)





Pers Jacob, a relative reacts after viewing the exhumed remains of Esther Biriya Masha who was a follower of the Christian cult named Good News International Church, who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death in Shakahola, as the authorities begin to hand over bodies to family members, at the Malindi sub-district hospital mortuary in Malindi, Kilifi county, Kenya on March 26, 2024. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





Members of a family mourn after receiving the remains of several family members who were victims of a Kenyan starvation cult at the Malindi Sub-County Hospital Mortuary in Malindi on March 26, 2024. Kenyan authorities on March 26, 2024 released several bodies of worshippers linked to a doomsday starvation cult case dubbed as the “Shakahola forest massacre” that shocked the country and the world. The remains are the first to be handed over to their families after nearly a year of painstaking work to identify them using DNA. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





People watch as fighters of the Sudan Liberation Movement, a Sudanese rebel group active in Sudan's Darfur State which supports army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, attend a graduation ceremony in the southeastern Gedaref state on March 28, 2024. Sudan's war has already killed thousands, including between 10,000 and 15,000 in a single city in the western Darfur region, according to UN experts. The war pits army chief al-Burhan against his former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, known as Hemeti, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). (Photo by AFP Photo)





A woman reacts as she sees recently freed students of the LEA Primary and Secondary School upon arrival in Kuriga to reunite with their parents in Kuriga, Nigeria, Thursday, March 28, 2024. (Photo by Olalekan Richard/AP Photo)





People look on at the side of a road as Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT's British driver Elfyn Evans steers his Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 Hybrid with British co-driver Scott Martin while arriving to Naivasha ahead of the second day of the World Rally Championship (WRC) Safari Rally Kenya in Naivasha, on March 28, 2024. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





Gambian Christian worshippers reenact the Stations of the Cross which recalls the last stage of the journey that Jesus Christ travelled prior to his crucifixion, as people mark Good Friday, part of Easter celebrations in Bakote on March 29, 2024. (Photo by Muhamadou Bittaye/AFP Photo)





People sit at a long makeshift table before an Iftar, breaking of the fast, during the holy month of Ramadan in Heideveld on the Cape Flats, Cape Town, South Africa, on March 30, 2024. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)





Kenyan Legio Maria believers attend the Easter vigil mass at the St. Joanes, Legio Maria of African Church Mission in Kibera slums, in Nairobi, Kenya, 30 March 2024. Christians commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. (Photo by Daniel Irungu/EPA)





A view of followers of the Baye Fall movement, which is considered as a different and contradictory interpretation of the Muridi sect gather as they cook mass meals and pray to commemorate the day in which the founder of the Mouridism, Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba, and his first disciple and founder of the Baye Fall movement Mame Ibrahim Fall met, during the 20th day of Ramadan in Touba, Senegal on March 31, 2024. (Photo by Cem Ozdel/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A woman reacts after identifying the body of a family member killed during a police raid on suspected criminals in Marianhill near Durban, South Africa on April 3, 2024. (Photo by Rogan Ward/Reuters)





Participants hold a candle light night vigil during a commemoration event, known as “Kwibuka” (Remembering), as Rwanda marks the 30th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide, at the BK arena in Kigali, Rwanda on April 7, 2024. (Photo by Jean Bizimana/Reuters)





A young girl looks at trees blocking a road after they were uprooted by strong winds in Somerset West, Western Cape, South Africa, on April 8, 2024. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)